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In the hot weather Sitka's shedding has gone into overdrive. Every time he shakes a cloud of hair goes everywhere. Our vacuum cleaner is a Dyson V11 Absolute which picks up the hair well on hard floors, OK on carpets but needs poking around with a knitting needle every five or ten minutes to...

On Sunday we had a nerve-wrecking 30 minutes when we lost Sitka after he chased a deer and recall failed. It was hard to find him in the forest. We have been looking into GPS trackers that we can fit to his collar. There is one on Amazon for £45.50 (Tractive GPS Dog Tracker) but it needs a...

Since Sitka has got his set of adult teeth and developed a strong jaw he has destroyed every one of his soft puppy toys. We have got him a few replacements that looked more durable but he works on the seam until he gets an opening and then he gets all the stuffing out before chewing the...

Sitka turned 6 months yesterday; he is a husky/lab cross, more husky in appearance and temperament with one exception - he has a lab's appetite. He is on a raw diet - 500g of mince in the morning, 500g in the evening and a snack at lunchtime (duck neck, 100g of heart meat, say). He weighs...

I have seen many signs in the countryside instructing keeping dogs on leads. I have heard that farmers have the right to shoot a dog if it is, say, chasing a pregnant ewe. The sign I saw today (below) shocked me, though. I have never held his lead so tight as then.

Our puppy (a male, intact husky x lab) is now 20 weeks old. A fortnight ago I was confident that we had nailed recall: it had been 3 weeks since it last failed and he passed what I thought was the ultimate test - coming back on a whistle after chasing a deer. He still pulled on the lead...

When deer are shot in Scotland they are gralloched (field dressed): removing the internal organs and sometimes the lower legs. On his forest walk today Sitka found the guts and legs of a recent kill and started eating. He wasn't happy about Patsy pulling him off it but we let him carry a leg...

My 16 week old puppy (husky x lab weighing 12kg) loves duck necks and I give him 2 or 3 a day; yesterday I placed an order for another 72 necks. Alarmingly I have just watched a YouTube video called '5 Things Raw Feeders Might Not Know' where it mentions them. It says that there are traces of...

Our puppy is now 14 weeks old and 10kg. I am pleased to say that he is housetrained and I no longer have to stand outside with him: I open the door after a meal or a signal, out he goes and gives a whine when he he is finished and wants back in. I let him out today, didn't hear the whine after...