Dog walking
Padding Paws Pet services – Nymet Tracey · South Tawton · Exbourne · North Tawton
https://www.facebook.com/PaddingPawsMain
Couldn’t ask for a better dog walker than Emily – she met the girls and us before she agreed to walk them and showed us all the training that she had done in canine welfare.
She only walks one family’s dogs at a time which is reassuring as you know she is totally focused on your dogs.
If it is too hot to walk the dogs she does enrichment activities in the shade in the garden.
She keeps up to date with everything to do with dogs – first aid, psychological issues, advances in treatment and behavioural methods.
She sends pictures of the dogs on their walk and when she settles them down before she leaves.
Dog sitting
Paws and small claws pet sitting – Plymouth
https://www.facebook.com/pawsandsmallclaws
We have known Tracey since she puppy sat the litter including Jenna when Kim was working – the puppies were never left alone when they were young.
When we were invited to spend some time in the Algarve with my brother we asked Tracey to pet sit for us and she moved in so the girls were in their own house and had everything familiar around them.
She looked after them beautifully – took them on lovely walks to the park, the beach and the town and sent daily videos and photos so we could see that they were happy and well looked after.
She left the house immaculate when she left and it was great to be able to relax knowing that they were in safe hands.
Hydrotherapy
The retreat – Okehampton
https://theretreatrehab.co.uk/
Our previous dog, Splash, a black labrador, developed arthritis in later years and was on a cocktail of drugs to help with the pain.
The thing that helped her most of all though was hydrotherapy which not only made her movement easier but also brought back her sparkle.
She had hydrotherapy for about 18 months and I am sure that is why she lived as long as she did – we lost her at 14 1/2 during the first lockdown when the hydrotherapy had to stop.
The retreat also do puppy swimming lessons and we left it too late with Morwenna – she can swim and will if she accidently goes out of her depth but she doesn’t like to.
We gave Jenna swimming lessons when she was 6 months old and it only took 2 lessons before she became a confident swimmer.
Goldies on tour 