The great dane

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

When it came to matchmaking, our beagles took the lead

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

With its majestic proportions and astonishing turn of speed–it can swim faster than a battleship–the bluefin tuna is poetry in motion

Once just a loyal sidekick, our best friend has gone decidedly high-maintenance, reports Ellie Fennell