The Blog For Dogs

The following dogs are featured in the DogLost column in the current issue of The Countryman’s Weekly. For further details on each dog, enter the 6 digit DogLost ID in the search box on the website: https://www.doglost.co.uk/

They’ve always been man’s best friend, but lockdown has seen our pampered pooches become office colleagues too. Yesterday was bring your dog to work day and so, in honour of this, we asked readers to share their photos of dogs “helping out” while working from home. We were looking for best-behaved office dog, lockdown hero […]

With the UK heatwave in full-swing, feeling sticky and uncomfortable is a rite of passage. But spare a thought for the nation’s hairy dogs. As temperatures soar, our four-legged friends will be looking to cool down, too. Of course, there are a number of ways to help a dog stay comfortable in the heat – […]

HOWLING and crying at the door, Justine Watt’s Cocker Spaniel Misty is bereft, searching desperately for her litter of four six-week-old puppies. Despite being too young to be separated from their mum, tragically her babies were snatched suddenly in the dead of night by cruel pet thieves looking to cash in on the staggeringly high […]

Seventeen people have been fined for walking their dogs on stretches of beach where their pets are banned during the summer months, Sunderland City Council has warned. The dog walkers were each fined £75 after being given fixed penalty notices for allowing their dogs to roam on stretches of beach at Seaburn and Roker covered […]

Lifeboat volunteers in Newquay have rescued a dog that went over a cliff at Polly Joke. Two inshore lifeboats were launched with assistance from the coastguard teams from Newquay and St Agnes at 15:50 on Thursday. Arriving at Polly Joke, the lifeboat crews found the dog stranded on a small ledge at the bottom of […]

As some return to work, RSPCA is issuing advice to dog owners to help their pets adjust to the change… For many of us, life has changed significantly during the Covid-19 lockdown – and it’s also changed for our dogs. When the restrictions are lifted, we will have to adjust again to returning to our normal routines […]

Karen’s Summary: My name is Karen Boyce.  I joined DogLost in 2004 when my Siberian Husky was stolen from my home in Surrey. At that time the police refused to accept that dogs were stolen. DogLost was reasonably new at the time and there were very few helpers locally. I felt very alone in my […]

A pet that inspired the book A Street Cat Named Bob has died aged 14. James Bowen met Bob in 2007 during his battle with drug addiction when he found the cat abandoned and injured and decided to look after him. He began taking the ginger cat with him when busking or selling The Big […]

On Sunday 14th June, Care For The Paw celebrated its 10th anniversary. Care For The Paw is a non-profit organisation which came into being in July 2010 after the 3 founders met as volunteers at a local dogs’ home. They found that most of the dogs which came into the home were there through no […]

From Claire Gretsy… I’ll like to nominate Will for volunteer of the month! My reason for doing so, is he’s extremely helpful, whenever I contact him to help with anything, example photos, videos, apps, graphics etc (or even help with my car stereo!) he’s ever so quick to help and very efficient!  He’s helped to […]

Officials at the Pentland Hills Regional park have warned of the potential for harmful blue-green algae blooms in reservoirs. On their Facebook page, the park warned that blue-green algae blooms can produce toxins that are harmful to both dogs and humans. In humans it can cause a rash after skin contact or illness if swallowed […]

Please help us get Sally back home where she belongs by watching and sharing this video! Sally’s DogLost timeline can be viewed here.

A stolen dog found wandering next to a busy dual carriageway near Maidstone has been returned to its rightful owner. Peanut, a seven-month-old cavapoo, was recovered by a motorist at around 7am on Wednesday 10 June 2020, after he was spotted on the central reservation of the A249, Detling Hill. He was passed into the hands of attending officers […]

Charities have been rehoming dogs during lockdown, with checks on how people plan to cope when restrictions ease. The Dogs Trust has been using video calls and messages to check out how they can match the right dog to the right home. The trust say they have been inundated with interest but they have to […]

One of the UK’s leading vets has told Radio 1 Newsbeat people need to “stop and think” before buying dogs from abroad. It’s after Love Island stars Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury revealed that a puppy they’d bought from Russia died just six days after they got him home. The couple, who met on the […]

I am so happy to be writing that the two French Bulldogs that were STOLEN from their home in Essex, were found in Thorne (near Doncaster) yesterday and were reunited earlier today. I would also like to give a special thanks to Natalie Wilkinson & Team Houdini, who made this reunion possible! Please see the […]

Please take time to read this, it is very important to all of us in the Dog World and could possibly be a historic day. An example of organisations coming together to raise the awareness of Pet Theft and other pressing issues!

The following dogs are featured in the DogLost column in the current issue of The Countryman’s Weekly. For further details on each dog, enter the 6 digit DogLost ID in the search box on the website: https://www.doglost.co.uk/

Thieves appear to have gone off trendy designer dogs and are instead turning their attention to more traditional breeds. In the last year, the number of cocker spaniels stolen has almost doubled, while lurchers have trebled and Yorkshire ­terriers have quadrupled. Every day, an average of six dogs are stolen in England and Wales, according […]

The Scottish SPCA is urging the public not to buy puppies online after seizing 13 dogs from an illegal dealer. Officers from the Society’s special investigations unit (SIU) swooped on Cairnryan port at the weekend where an individual travelling from Ireland was caught with 13 dogs of various breeds. The pups are just a few […]