Here is a picture of my beautiful dog, she is a Border Collie, and is now 13years and nine months old, the photo was taken in December last year. Holly still likes to go walking, but we are not as adventurous as we used to be, she is an old lady and has to go easy on her legs! She also still enjoys coming with me to dog club, where we help other people to train their dogs (The young dogs can aspire to be as good as her one day) She is my "good example" dog, and is happy to lie down watching the proceedings, until occasionally I ask her to demonstrate something for me.

Who said that cats and dogs can't get along?

These two are great buddies.

That's Puddum P and kitty kitty who's real name is Peso.

Bless.

I have two springer spaniels. Totally crazy but very lovable. The girl caught a baby rabbit the other day whilst out walking. Not so much bothered about adult rabbits cause they've got half a chance of getting away. I was luck it was the girl cause she plays with them first. Managed to free it and it bounded away happily.
The two dogs couldn't be more different. She's got a stupid look to her face and is very mischievous. She'll come down the stairs with one of my little girls cuddly toys in her mouth, wagging her tail, knowing full well she's not supposed to have them. She'll roll over onto her back at the first sight of another dog. Even if it's a small one.
He's got a beautiful face and always stands so proud. He's smaller than his sister but doesn't back down. He's also so loyal, always lying by my feet. And if he's have caught the rabbit I wouldn't have got there in time.
Always fun taking them on walks, though they do come back filthy. They love to wallow in the mud, cooling down.

This little girl spends most of her day doing this.

Directly across the road, there are 2 huge Maple trees that hosts several squirrel nests. Puddum watches the world go by through this window and can monitor the comings and goings of the dastardly squirrels!!!

Very old chair that the dogs decided to take over
Even if someone sat on it,Scamp( brown and white) would still fall asleep on top of it with his head resting on your shoulder and his paws dangling.

Here are our (now quite grown up) kitties, sitting on their moderately large (we plan to get them a bigger one for their birthday) kittie tree.

This is actually pretty unusual - Shadow (black) isn't a big fan of the tree (it was second hand and she never really got over the fact that it smells of other cat) so she rarely gets on it voluntarily.

Bandita (white and black) on the other hand, totally loves it and sits on it pretty much all the time.

I love dogs, in general any kind of pets other than cats...
But I do not have one becoz I keep travelling every few months becoz of my job ...
But I sometimes really feel like having a pet ...Hope I would settle in one place so that I can own one (

The new member of the family.

Isn't she gorgeous?

People often ask if Paddington is good around children what with him being such a large dog.
The simple answer is that he's good with anyone, from 0 to old age.

The best answer,though, is to direct the person asking the question to this YouTube clip, titled "Baby Laughing Hysterically at Newfoundland Dog"
I think it shows how gentle a big dog can be.

(Although technically, as the dog in the clip has black and white markings, it should be called a Landseer rather than a Newfoundland. It's only a subtle difference, the two breeds came from similar breeding stock.)

However, having said that about Newfies being good with kids, I wouldn't leave a child alone in a room with any breed of dog . You can never be too careful.

We live in a third floor flat.

As summer spproaches, I'm increasingly wanting to open all the windows, but am worried about the kittehs...
Internet research tells me that there is quite a significant spike in injury rates in the summer due to cats falling/jumping off balconies etc and I obviously don't want this to happen to ours.

We've got one really big window, which both tilts and also swings open and a fair sized balcony (which we use for plants/bbqs) with patio doors.

I want to kitteh-proof the windows - I was considering sticking mosquito netting (or similar - I know you can get 'cat nets') over them so that we can still open the windows, but there will be no gaping hole for the cats to leap through - not sure whether this will work or whether it will just make them want to climp on/eat through the netting.

The balcony may be more difficult.
I'd like to let them out onto it - they love the sunshine and things, but don't really know how to cat-proof it to stop them jumping off after birds and things.
Again, you can get so-called balcony cat nets, but I'm not sure that they'd work very well on my balcony...
If we can't let them out, that's fine, but I'll need a way that we can leave the doors open (to stop us all overheating) without letting the kits out...

Does anyone have any ideas?
It can't just be us that has this problem...