Sweet elderly Akita is still looking for a retirement home after six months

Sweet elderly Akita is still looking for a retirement home after six months

Maisie Walker, from Blackberry Farm Animal Centre, in Buckinghamshire, said: ‘Kuzey is such a sweet old gent but, at 10, his age is starting to catch up with him, and he’s on long-term pain medication for arthritis which will need to continue in his new home.

Vets warn of new Covid variant's possible link to heart problems in pets

Vets warn of new Covid variant's possible link to heart problems in pets

Vets are warning of a possible link between a new variant of coronavirus and heart problems in cats and dogs after a increase in pets presenting with myocarditis at a specialist veterinary hospital in Buckinghamshire during the pandemic’s second wave.

From the archive: Britain’s most exclusive doghouse, 1991

From the archive: Britain’s most exclusive doghouse, 1991

reporter, Martin Plimmer, went along to Alicia and Bill Eykyn’s Featherbed Country Club for Dogs in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire – where pets can stay for £125 a week, or £265 in today’s money (or to put it another way, four times as much as my student room cost at the time) – to find out about this piece of ‘canine heaven’.

Hair-of-the-dog? Close escape after dog gets DRUNK on homebrew beer - 'He wolfed it down!'

Hair-of-the-dog? Close escape after dog gets DRUNK on homebrew beer - 'He wolfed it down!'

It’s great to hear he’s back to full fitness but his case shows just how dangerous hops can be to dogs.” Bruno the dog has a reputation for guzzling anything including home-brew (Image: Vets Now) Bruno’s owners Kerri and Frank, who live in Buckinghamshire and have asked not to have their surnames revealed, say they always have to be on watch because the dog eats anything the moment their backs are turned.