The guinea pig that loved camping

My hog haven is my latest prickly passion

WE’RE about to embark on the holiday of a lifetime, heading for Heathrow Airport after leaving Ruby and Edgar in the safe hands of house-sitter, Sue. She hadn’t met the dogs before this morning, but t

UNLIKE MY LATE mother, who owned every single household power tool she could get her hands on and always bought the latest kitchen appliances, I have never been a sucker for a gadget. I don’t even buy

I was 11 when I first moved into ...

Olena Petrychenko managed to rescue her dog, Taffy, after fleeing Ukraine. But when she couldn’t afford the veterinary surgery she needed, Woodgreen Pets Charity stepped in…

WHEN I first met Polly, I was a nine-year-old lad, who had been living in Nigeria for just over a year, yearning to have a parrot like other army families had. It was early December 1955, on a hot, du