Did you have much experience with pets or taking care of animals before you found the newborn hare? I had very little direct experience outside childhood. My father is a diplomat so I grew up abroad.

SARAH DITUM

IRIS walked slowly to the front door of her Victorian villa in Fairley, a sleepy Sussex village. It had begun, she fumed silently – the “invasion” of her home. Of course, she’d been expecting it. Her

BACK in 2020, the pandemic lockdowns changed lives, sometimes in ways people never would have imagined. For Mark Wakeling, the forced closure of his London acting school created an opportunity for him

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

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”