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These tips are great, the answer is clearly a system/process to cycle through empty-fill-clean. I will probably have to clean caked in food from ours before starting but I will try and get my @Boogie and @Atemas system up and running next week!

I find kongs a real pain - stuffing them and cleaning them. Particularly with the bone-shaped ones I end up with wet food everywhere when I am filling them. Is there some trick that I'm missing?! I seem to make very heavy weather out of what must surely be quite straightforward!

I know, I do wonder a bit whether we have created this habit (as discussed above) but he really is a dog that loves to chew! The other day @SwampDonkey said that maybe a sore stomach drove Rory to eat odd things and I think something similar happened with Brodie. He had stomach problems when...

That was very sweet of Cassie to give him a gift for his travels! OH and I have had similar 'treats' left in our suitcases (by Jess, no chance of Brodie giving away anything. As I tell them when they are sitting hopefully for us to finish dinner, when was the last time they gave us any kibble?)

This sounds great, would love to hear the name if you can track it down. Wholesale suits us as we need 2 of everything anyway so a stockpile is fine.

OK, that's interesting and good to know. I have looked at the roots and yak chews but was worried about possible blockage - there are some stories of blockages with yak chews, and the roots I looked at just seemed to be pieces of wood, which worried me. I know there are loads of rawhide...

Brodie loves to chew but it is really difficult to find appropriate chews for him because he is a) a power chewer and b) swallows whatever is in his mouth. That means that easily digestible chews don't last for a minute and harder chews are risky in case he bites off a big bit and gets a...

That's what I thought! Good colour toning in the photo/ad. Though maybe she should also do one where the dog isn't sitting politely but is scoffing all the treats?! There was a dog treat stall in a farmers' market I used to go to and you could see dogs pulling their owners through the crowd...

I used to use a sharples "soft and snug" padded insert for a plastic dog bed, available on amazon. Not v cheap for larger sizes and Brodie ate the filling so we had to stop using it but before that was a really good solution as a washable but snuggly dog bed for Jess. I can send a link if you...

How exciting! I hope she adjusts happily to her new home.

yes, it's really good that so few beaches have restrictions. Norfolk is also very good about dog-friendly pubs/restaurants/cafes. I expect accommodation rentals have to be dog-friendly to be competitive. Read more at the newsletter The Barking Bugle ("written by dogs" :rolleyes: The Barking...

Thank you! We have recently started feeding Jess Harringtons. We had to buy an emergency bag of dog food when we were away for a few days and to our shock/horror found that Jess was much more energetic and lively than on her usual Barking Heads. Our vet had found high levels of struvite...

That site is really useful. If @Emily_Babbelhund or others are planning holidays in Norfolk, it might be worth pointing out that not all the beaches are sandy - there is a stretch of coast where they are more rocky/shingle. And others are quite tide dependent. There are miles and miles of...

it's funny, lots of the dynamics you describe with Monty and Bear are similar with Jess and Brodie. Jess has always seemed to understand how to let us know what she needs, whether it's by sitting and staring at us, shuffling around, going to the door that she wants opened, barking/vocalising...

Also, another obvious comment but if it is happening at the same time, can you take him out in anticipation of that? Brodie always needs a wee at/before 7pm, even though that's not much after his evening walk. It's because he drinks a lot of water after his walk but it took a few...

Apologies if this is obvious, but does he always wee on the same rug? Could you try removing the rug and putting something else down in its place? Jess had an odd house training regression at around the same age when she apparently decided that one particular rug was ok to wee on. First...

This probably wont help Homer, but just in case, the most effective thing for Jess this time has been her kong wobbler. the combination of sniffing and hitting it seems to be giving her enough distraction to take her mind off the bangs, at least intermittently.

Ha, we tried this with a scarf last night, complete failure for us I'm afraid. Jess was v tolerant of wearing it but it didnt help at all.

But since this is the doggy brags section, I should add that Brodie is unflappable and hasn't turned a hair, even when it has felt like we are in a WWII reenactment :love: He occasionally joins in when Jess is barking but with an air of "What's happening? What's going on? Should I join in...

Great that Homer is coping with the fireworks. We have been having a rough couple of nights as lots of the neighbours having been putting fireworks off in their gardens, I suppose they feel it is something they can do while staying at home and sticking to the lockdown. But it's awful for the...