The Jet-set Puppy goes on a diet

Rosie (AKA The Jet-set Puppy), has always been a sturdy looking dog. Or as somebody once described her: “a chunky pup”. Chunky looked good on her when she was a puppy. It made her look like a healthy little bear cub. But as our vet told us when we recently took Rosie for her annual […]

The jet-set puppy: How to win over your new family

If you’ve read the previous installment of this series (The jet-set puppy: A year of chaos) you’ll probably be asking yourself why we put up with this little puppy terrorist. Quite simply, Rosie was the cutest thing on four legs. Just when I felt I could murder her, she did something so cute or funny […]

The jet-set puppy: A year of chaos

After Rosie landed in our lives (see The jet-set puppy: buying a puppy via the Internet), things were literally never the same again. Our previous Staffie, Jessie, had been a calm, old soul (practically from puppy-hood), so to have to deal with a puppy which had a completely different personality, presented its challenges over the […]

The jet-set puppy: buying a puppy via the Internet

Last Friday I was lying on my bed, trying to calm my throbbing head and resting my feet against Rosie. Then it occurred to me that it was 25 February. Two years to the day that Rosie had landed – quite literally – in our lives. And I thought about how it all began, and  […]

Training a SUPERdog

From the first week we had her, I started putting a harness on Rosie (our Staffie puppy) and walking with her in our garden. Later we graduated to the  streets of our neighbourhood, where I would describe it less as me walking the dog, than me being dragged around the neighbourhood by the dog! We […]