Pets tune into your mood and the longer you live with them the more sensitive this psychic relationship becomes. I know tests have been done showing that people’s blood pressure drops when their pet enters the room (not too much obviously or we’d all be keeling over every time Rover makes an appearance) and that […]
Well, I arrived back home last night having spent all of yesterday travelling. I forgot when I booked that it was a bank holiday in Italy and so several trains were cancelled. Having landed at 2.30pm it then took me six hours to travel from Pisa to the Casentino. Unbelievable. Although I had a fantastic
Although I use Front Line on the animals regularly and you can buy it easily over here in Italy, I really don’t like using chemicals on my pets. So I’ve put together a few natural flea remedies. Please add your own in the comments box and perhaps together we can defeat the little blighters! Please notethat you try these
I have a great interest in alternative therapies and natural healing techniques, especially for animals. I am going to put together several pages on the ones that have worked for me over the years here in Italy. I don’t know if you have ever tried acupuncture? Originating in China the treatment involves having very fine
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When you go regularly to a place its features become etched on your mind. Your subconscious immediately notices if there is anything different long before your conscious mind does. Such is the case with my regular dog walk. Far into the woods there’s a little home-made wooden cross with a crudely carved hand pointing up
It may be slightly easier when you exchange like for like. When you move from a rural location in your own country to the Italian countryside. But it comes as quite a shock if, as we did, you exchange suburban life in Britain for the Italian rural idyll. What no-one prepares you for is how
You can buy many familiar brands of petfood in Italy from the supermarket although the brand name pronunciation may be different. Whiskas is weezkass for example! You’ll also find some rather oddly named pet products like Alan the dog food (my husband loved that!) or Clumpy the cat litter (bit too graphic thanks!) Some words are ‘false friends’ that is you
I’ve put some common dog and cat related words in Italian with phonetic pronunciation. The capital letters are the stress of the word. If you are at the vet’s and are not sure of the ailment try the English medical name as a lot of the scientific terms are similar in Italian and English. For example uterus – utero,
Here are a variety of useful links related to pets and also ex-pat living. I’ll be adding to this all the time. Please contact me to add any that you know of. ANIMAL CHARITIES and ORGANIZATIONS Great list of organizations and associations which help animals in Italy from Animali e Animali http://www.animalieanimali.it/entieassociazioni.asp Rome association
My animals don't need clocks – they have their own in-built ones! About two weeks ago the cats and dogs began waking (and as a consequence waking me too) earlier and earlier and for the last few days I have been letting them out at 6 am – an hour earlier than usual. I put