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Sign InThe Times Weekend by Helen Kirwan Taylor Forget bragging about your child’s exam success, what matters now is how clever your pet is. That’s why I packed mine off to the experts, says Helen Kirwan-Taylor. I thought I had just about left the rat race that is mothering when my children went to university. Mine
We have always been mad about our pets, but now the demand for lavishing luxuries on our cats and dogs has spawned a multibillion-pound industry. Adam Edwards explores the barking world of canine health farms, hotels and fashion boutiques. Every Friday an air-conditioned Mercedes with built–in-beds, a state-of-the-art sound system and luxurious buffet sets off
He eats organic, enjoys a regular pedicure and accessories with Burberry. But JJ the Weimeraner isn’t the only London dog living the high life. Anna Pursglove reports on the born in pet pampering. JJ is a modern West London boy. He takes his morning and evening walks in Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens, has a
No more sad weeks in cages waiting for their owners to return, these days, the pooches are more pampered than their parents. And nobody knows more about spending money on her dog than Judith Summers, who has written in the Mail about the extraordinary lifestyle of her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, George. Here, she presents
The place has all the requirements of a top health farm: personal fitness trainers, daily swims, monitored diets and comfortable log chalets with views over rambling fields and streams. But to book in you need to make sure all your vaccinations are up to date……and that you don’t bite. Welcome to Britain’s first health farm
Mark Thompson’s career has gone to the dogs – or to be precise, they come to him Natasha Gilmore Mark Thompson, 33, ex-private and corporate event planner, is the best dog handler in London. He manages to keep 16 dogs perfectly still on the steps of Battersea Buddhist Peace Pagoda for a photo shoot lasting
Becoming a dog trainer was a bit of an accident for Mark Thompson. Mark, who was a freelance events organiser , used to take his own dog, a Springer Spaniel, for a charge around the park every day. Then, last July, a neighbour asked him if he could take her dog along, too, as did
Last week dogs mauled children and learnt to start cars. Reformed dog nut Christa D’Souza explains our national bow-wow obsession. Not a good week for the dog lobby, then. Two Rottweilers maul a baby girl to death. Three days later another one tries to do the same to a toddler boy and doesn’t stop when
‘But Emma Parker Bowles says you’re a dog whisperer’, I plead with Mark Thompson, proprietor of The Dog House. I need a place for Putu, my long legged terrier, and though the canine health farm (they insist it is neither kennel nor doggie hotel) has been booked up for three months, Mark finds a bed
Top chef Michel Roux and former UK cabinet minister Robin Cook are among the many clients who are happy to spend £250 a week to board their canine friends at The Dog House. Then again, this is no ordinary kennel. Mark Thompson has always had a way with animals. His mother, father and grandfather had
