No horse to look after, a multi-generational community, great exercise and it costs peanuts. Tessa Waugh extols the joy of hunting with the “jelly dogs”

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Birds can transport us to another time and place entirely,

How love at first sniff led to holy muttrimony at my doggy daycare

If there’s anything more joyful than making a visit to the coast in any season, it has to be heading there with your beloved dog

When it came to matchmaking, our beagles took the lead