One sets a fine example..

(There is a whole graffarti exhibition here if that rattles your tin)

It’s going to be warm. And Dogs are going to be warm, especially big hairy chums like The Taster. What to do?

We make up some stock from stock cubes, double diluted to lessen any salt, and freeze into ice cubes. Little Miss Taster the 50 kilo Bouvier just luurves them.

The established Taster-in-Chief at the Kitchen of Dawg, Shannon, had a day off yesterday. Being a lovely spring day, she decided a walk in the Bluebell woods would be just about right for her delicate sensibilities…

Local papers used to be full of “funny” dog pictures, but no longer.

Here is an American study from papers in the 1950s and 1960s as your Dawg Retro Ephemera Special:

And just how cool is this? The Plan 9 Space & Time Cafe in London, (Maida Vale), where you can have the most superlative cuppa java, and more, and your happy, healthy hound can have a Dawg Treat!
Walk the dog, have a cup of finest, treat the dog too….Hot Diggidy Dawg, manna from Maida Vale..

OPENS 26th April

Ah! The tides of civilisation sweeping over London, says Dawg.

Plan 9, 81 Castellian Road, Maida Vale, London, W9 1EU. 0207 121 0012

If you need a bit of really special care, Hydrotherapy, for your dog, there is a new place in Portsmouth, who is a new friend.

FOUR PAWS AQUA, ( Unit 15 Victory Business Centre, Somers Rd North, Fratton, Portsmouth’ PO1 1PJ. 023 9287 6580), is offering these much heralded, and much needed treatments from Now!

The website link is on the left, under HEALTHY…

“I swear by hydrotherapy for my dog” -VetNurse.co.uk

What do you think? Better, worse?

Any suggestions…?

Yeah, yeah, Ok. A tenuous headline, a stretch of a link but maybe the UK’s leading hatefairy might like to take her dog on holiday. And to the USA. And to Nashville.

AND. The dog is a musical dog and wants to turn pro: well, what better than this?

Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, Nashville: The Hounds of Music package allows canines to cut their first CD. Included are accommodations in a pet-friendly suite, vocal training, professional in-studio recording session, pet room-service voucher, massage, limo ride to the studio, and personalized CD case.

Cost is $1,599 per night. 615-320-1700; loewshotels.com/hotels/nashville/.

“Ain’t nuffink but a hound dawg”

(tra la).