Pets & vets

WHEN Tracy Halls’s daughter Sascha came home from school in early 2017 and told her mother she’d seen a duckling in trouble, she had no idea that this day would turn out to be life changing. “We went

One of my favourite jobs is health checks on litters of puppies before they go to their new homes. Both breeders and buyers find it useful for any problems to have been identified in advance of the pu

Garden Organic ’s head gardener Emma O’Neill explains how to make a refuge for reptiles and amphibians this summer

Our four-legged friends also have curly tails

The secret to living longer isn’t lurking in a jar in your medicine cabinet, but may actually be found curled up in a basket or even swimming in a fish tank. That’s because sharing your home with anim

The question about wild swimming I get asked most often is: “is it safe?” Rarely does this query refer to the risk of drowning – the usual concern is about the quality of the water. And understandably