There are new rules in place for travelling with dogs from the UK to the EU and from Great Britain (GB) to Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021. Pre-Brexit and pre-Covid we travelled extensively with our dogs, including across Europe and to the USA. Theo's mad road trip from Manchester-London-Paris-Venice and back in five days was just one such trip.  We have been watching the UK/EU Brexit negotiations like a hawk as once this terrible pandemic is over we hope to travel with them again.

Our summer holiday was spent at Astley Castle. Four photo nerds in a stunning house with our gorgeous little doglets ... the result was a series of beautiful photos which we've put together in this ebook as a record of our lovely holiday at Astley. 

This ebook is best viewed on a landscape screen.

I recently decided to go on a last minute trip to Venice so that I could take Theo to see the lady who bred him, Linda, who lives in the US but was over in Europe on holiday. We don't get to see Linda very often so it felt like an opportunity not to be missed! 

Are we going to see Linda? Really? Really???!!! Yipppeeee!

I had a total of one evening and four days to get from Manchester to Venice and back with Theo. Driving from Manchester to Venice takes around 24 hours straight so that was never going to work. In the end I settle on getting from Manchester to Paris via London, and then flying from Paris to Venice and back again. This is how the mad road trip turned out ... 

We thought we’d done her in and she was never coming back but this morning we hopped into the car to go on our morning walk and when we got to the car park and climbed out, who should be there but the Doggie Dictator.

So it looked like our morning was not going to include the normal high jinks but actually things did not unfold as expected and I was pleasantly surprised, of which more later.

Any excuse for a bit of doggie fancy dress! It's Chinese New Year and what better way to celebrate than a sheep dog photo shoot to welcome in the Year of the Sheep! Wishing you and your hounds every happiness for this new lunar year!

Our New Year's Day photo shoot in the office earlier today - trying to capture a moment to wish all our friends well for 2015.

We're often asked how we "make" our monkeys sit still for photos. The answer is that they don't! Here's just a few of the out-take shots ...