The bumper December issue of Dogs Monthly goes on sale 3 November. Inside you’ll find… Let’s hear it for dogs!  How our canine friends  increase people’s health and happiness.   Dogs Trust at Christmas  Spotlight on the charity’s seasonal campaign plus a FREE ‘A dog is for life, not just for Christmas’ car sticker for every reader!  Focus [...]

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The deadline for grant applications to this year’s Pedigree Adoption Drive has been extended to Monday 7 November 2011. Rescue homes that are members of the Association of Dogs and Cats Homes (ADCH) are invited to apply for grants to fund the refurbishment of dilapidated kennel blocks, improve veterinary facilities, provide surgical equipment and so on. The [...]

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Stop press! The Kennel Club has launched a competition to name these seven adorable German Shepherd Dog puppies for the West Midlands Police. You’ll need to think fast though as entries close at midday on Friday 28 October 2011.       Dog lovers are being asked to submit names beginning with the letter ‘R’ for each of the five-week old pups [...]

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As 5 November approaches, the Scottish SPCA is calling for animal lovers to join its appeal to the UK and Scottish governments to tighten the laws on the sale and use of fireworks. Fireworks cause great distress to domestic pets, horses, farm animals and wildlife and every year animals are injured, sometimes severely.       The [...]

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All this week, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is running a series of free dog tag engraving events. Tag A Dog Week runs from 24-28 October and is aiming to tackle the problem of the thousands of dog owners who flout the law on pet identification by failing to provide their dogs with a collar [...]

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The LovePets Show takes place next weekend, Saturday 29 to Sunday 30 October 2011, at the indoor EXEC venue at the East of England Showground, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Rescue centre Wood Green will be there, as will Pets As Therapy, with PAT dogs (pictured) highlighting the benefits of charity’s Read 2 Dogs programme, which encourages children [...]

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Fancy enjoying a night out at a London theatre and supporting The Mayhew Animal Home at the same time?       On Thursday 10 November 2011, the evening performance of The Lion in Winter at the Theatre Royal Haymarket ­– starring Joanna Lumley, patron of The Mayhew, and Robert Lindsay – will form part of a [...]

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