We know that keeping pets benefits our health so wouldn’t it be great to return the compliment? Well, it is possible to make a positive energy connection with your animal using a hands on healing technique. You are probably familiar with ‘spiritual healing,’ as it sometimes referred to, being used on people but it can be immensely beneficial for animals […]
I've been very interested in animal healing for some time now and have tried it out with my own pets. I first noticed that something was happening a few years ago when the Italian neighbour's very sick cat wandered into our garden. It really needed to see a vet (and healing is never a substitute,
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of homeless pets in Italy. I sometimes spend more than an hour just looking at page after page of poor dogs who need help and whose only hope is that someone will spot them on the internet. Well, when I get too depressed, I think of
I went to Bibbiena's fiera dell'estate yesterday. It took me about half an hour to find a parking place as throngs of people descended on the centro storico and its 100 stands selling everything from electrical goods to bars of soft nougat called torrone. I ended up parking in the hospital car park and walking
If you see this expression in Italian then be prepared, because it means that you are going to read something very sad involving the search for a home for a very old, sick or handicapped animal. I received two of these adozione del cuore messages this morning and am posting them both immediately on the
I confess to having a weakness for birds of all kinds, particularly wild ones, so I thought you would like to see this short film. It is the moment when a rare peregrine falcon is released back into the wild in the province of Arezzo,Tuscany. The bird was found last November with severe fractures to
As someone who is always on the go, I was stopped in my busy busy tracks this morning, transfixed by the sight of one of my dogs in deepest slumber on the sofa. Zsa Zsa the Labrador is, it has to be said, a traitor to her breed, and at her happiest when horizontal rather
Ask anyone about Italian dog breeds and you’ll probably get the same response. They may be able to name one, maybe two. In fact, there are sixteen Italian dog breeds. Probably one of the most famous Italian dog breeds is the Neapolitan mastiff (like Hagred’s dog Fang, made famous in the Harry Potter films). This wrinkly, drooly dog is
It's always great to be the bearer of good news and so I am delighted to tell you that two more of the abandoned dogs featured on the site have found homes. As space is at a premium I have removed them from the dogs and puppies page, and will be replacing their details with
The following text comes to me from an Italian lady who is involved in the voluntary network in Italy and I am happy to publish it. I have only just learned about the canili lager and it is horrifying. In 1991 a new and potentially groundbreaking animal welfare law was passed by the Italian Parliament