Mandy Forwood has transformed her home into a sanctuary for her spiky little friends

AS they sit at the poolside of a plush manor house in Hampshire, retirees Ros and Jim Slaughter cannot believe their luck. The couple from the south of England normally live quite modest lives – until

WE nearly owned a cat once. He caused something of a neighbourhood dispute, too. My other half advised keeping our heads down because of it, but I really couldn’t do that when pegging out the washing.

A s I write this, just a week before Christmas, it’s a wonderfully frantic time in the office as we sign off magazines and race to meet deadlines, all in the hope of enjoying a well-deserved rest over

Dog walker Nicci Hindson from Newark in Nottinghamshire is living her dream life, thanks to a red and white Border Collie called Elsa. On listening to Nicci’s story, it’s easy to see that destiny play

Pets As Therapy was founded in 1983 and over the past 40 years has provided thousands of people with comfort and unconditional love at times when it was needed most. Today volunteers and their registe