Latest news from The Bella Moss Foundation:

Star has gone from strength to strength since my last post about her, The Restorative Power of Baked Potato. She is so much better that she's been back on the dog food for weeks - being indulged with baked potato is a distant memory, thank goodness. I'm sure she would choose being out of pain and being able to move around freely over the molly coddling she received.
 

A stomach lurching way to raise funds:

PARACHUTE FREEFALL RAISES POUNDS FOR HOUNDS

Fundraiser for Dogs Trust Evesham

Keith Bishop, 30 years old, from Tewkesbury faced his fears on Sunday 11th July with a solo 12500ft parachute jump to raise money for the canine welfare charity Dogs Trust.

The forensic medic took up the challenge in memory of his late dog Blue, a Collie cross he rehomed 7 years ago from Dogs Trust Evesham.

There is a phenomenon on the Internet called a troll. A troll is someone who posts on forums and websites purely to cause upset, and I think the DogCast Radio site has been visited by one. My post entitled The man who want to ban all dogs was a response to an article by Giles Coren, who had written about wanting to ban all dogs. A comment was added which includes the following:

The BBC recently aired a Panorama program called It Shouldn't Happen at a Vet's. (For the next few days you can see this program here.)

The following is a letter from The Bella Moss Foundation in response to the program:

Would you like to be involved in an upcoming "dogumentary"? Well here's your chance! Do you live, eat, breathe, and dream dogs? Maybe you're at a dog show or competition every weekend. Maybe your love of dogs lead you into your career. Maybe your dog writes a diary section in a radio show.........or maybe that's a little too far fetched. However it happened, if your life has gone to the dogs (in the best possible way) and you think you would make an interesting participant, use the contact details below: