Charity

Should you consider an imported rescue dog? Holidays4Dogs has written on the subject of imported rescue dogs in the past (Feb 2017 – see below), but three years on, veterinary and welfare [...]

Are you REALLY prepared to get a dog? Holidays4Dogs has touched on this subject in the past, but you can never reiterate enough just what taking on a dog entails.  One of the top reasons for [...]

Could Your Dog become a Therapy Dog? Therapy dogs can be any size and any breed of dog – from a tiny Yorkshire terrier to an Irish Wolfhound; what counts is whether they are in suitable health [...]

Should we be adopting imported rescue dogs? More and more it seems rescues in the UK are importing street dogs from places such as Spain and Bulgaria, but within the dog world there is some [...]

Unwanted Dogs of Britain – Who Cares?  This isn’t the first time that Holidays 4 Dogs has written about this subject, but unfortunately the issue of unwanted, stray and abandoned dogs never goes [...]

Guide Dog Brood Bitches – a Puppy Walkers Account. ‘Guide Dog Brood Bitches’ is a phase we Puppy Walkers do not like to hear or use, for such lovely puppies we have to look [...]

Being a Volunteer Puppy Walker is very rewarding, and wonderful to see the end results of training. The pups arrive at our homes at approximately 6-8 weeks old. They will have been with the Brood [...]

Early May 2012 and I was off on my travels again to do my bit as a dog carer for charity, this time a little closer to home than usual and with no guaranteed sunshine. I had chosen to spend a few [...]

Here at Holidays 4 Dogs, we all look forward to our own holidays, holidays with dogs or without,  mine invariably, seem to involve animals these days, sometimes by choice and sometimes they just [...]