Pets
Barking Blondes: Other people’s dogs
We have never had children but would like to ask all parents this. When you experience a birth do you instantly become interested in or affectionate towards other babies and small people?
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Notebook | Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 5:00 am
Barking Blondes: Could your dog find its way home?
Our local yoga centre, in Marylebone, has a yoga dog called Jalebi. She is a 10-month old Sheltie.
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Notebook | Sunday, 28 April 2013 at 7:00 am
Barking Blondes: The health of your dog
If a well known vet becomes ‘the face’ of a product such as a pharmaceutical or a campaign, are you more likely to trust that product?
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Notebook | Sunday, 21 April 2013 at 7:00 am
Is it right to train with pain?
Our attitudes to behaviour modification in animals are hypocritical, speciest and ineffective. No wonder dog-bite hospital admissions are on the rise and rescue centres are overflowing.
By Mary-Ann Ochota | Notebook | Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 11:16 pm
Sorry kids, you can have a pet bunny but not an iguana
Whatever happened to the cute attraction of a cuddly hamster or the irresistible eyes of a tiny kitten? Nowadays kids are banging on about exotics when it comes to their choice of pet. A python or an iguana has replaced the fluff ball to become a child’s requisite scaly friend.
By Victoria Martindale | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 20 September 2012 at 6:00 am
Barking Blondes: New arrivals, Lets With Pets and Pup Aid
A new puppy has arrived in our block but the other residents are revolting. Read into that what you may but anyone who objects to an eight-week-old puppy crying for its mother whilst being pacified by a frantic owner, must be pretty unreasonable.
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Notebook, Opinion | Sunday, 16 September 2012 at 4:00 am
Barking Blondes: Hairy work emails, itchy irritations and pet cemeteries
There has been another email about dog hair in the studio. We pride ourselves on being the only radio show, up until now, that’s been allowed to bring dogs into the studio.
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Notebook | Sunday, 9 September 2012 at 4:00 am
Barking Blondes: Rover’s reunion, flying Fidos and derby for dogs
Whatever your opinions may be concerning reality television, it would take a hard soul not to have been moved at the sight of Julian Clary reunited with his mutts for five minutes in the Diary Room
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Notebook | Sunday, 2 September 2012 at 4:00 am
Barking Blondes: Canine confessions, modelling mutts and doggy dancing
The craze for ‘dogshaming’, is sweeping through the nation with as much enthusiasm as ‘planking’. Its intent is to flush out four-legged culprits of bad behavior in an attempt to name and shame.
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Notebook | Sunday, 26 August 2012 at 4:00 am
Dangerous Dogs: How many dog lovers mauled in their own homes does it take?
How ironic that while Britain is renowned as a nation of dog lovers, the latest figures show the number of dog bite victims is at an all time high.
By Victoria Martindale | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 24 August 2012 at 10:00 am
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