Street Angel
Street Angel. Sighing with tired relief, we plopped our suitcases into the dusty, grey earth – we had arrived! The journey to Florence took far longer than we had anticipated and weariness dragged through our bodies like a ball and…
K9 Magazine
K9 Magazine is your digital destination helping you have a happier, healthier dog. Here you'll find advice on everything from dog training to dog diet advice as well as interviews with well known dog lovers and insightful features on the broadest range of canine lifestyle topics.
Treating Separation Anxiety in Dogs
Separation anxiety is a common problem in dogs which has divided expert opinion of the causes behind the behaviour for many years. The situation can become dramatic when the owners leave, resulting in chewed carpets, remote controls, dog beds etc,…
Dog Hit by Car, Shot by Police, Put in Freezer…Lives
This is a K9 Magazine re-wind of one of the most amazing dog news stories we've ever covered. Worth a recap, the story comes from 2003 and we thought there might be new readers who may have missed it the…
Join in the fun at the Collingbourne K9 Festival on September 18th 2010
The Collingbourne K9 Festival is the Biggest Little Dog Show in Wiltshire! A Companion Dog Show, with 18 Classes under KC Licence 12929.
Jessica Hall in K9 Magazine
In this special edition of K9 Magazine, Jessica talks about life with her two dogs, Duke and Warren, her plans to adopt, the secrets behind the scenes of “Kendra” and loving life! Jessica Hall is one of America’s hottest rising…
This Dog Would be Dead, if he was British
This is Leo. He used to belong to disgraced NFL footballer Michael Vick. For those who don’t know why Vick is disgraced it’s because he was found guilty of being involved in illegal dog fighting. Leo was one of his…
Bichons In Need Fun Day
Bichons In Need would like to invite you to their exciting fun day. Please come along – all dogs and their slaves welcome.
Montauk Monster & Gollum Creature Hysteria
Over the past few years, K9 Magazine has, we admit, had a little fun at the expense of the hysteria obsessed culture surrounding certain types of dogs. Two stories in particular seemed to, rather sadly, prove our point – that…
Rewind: Breed Discrimination and Pedigree Politics at Dog Show
Apartheid is going to the dogs, so says Ricardo Cerd, owner of Lulu, the ‘genetically recessive’ Norwich Terrier. As enthusiasts and lovers of those wonderful four-legged creatures of the canine persuasion prepareded to gather at Crufts 2005 in Birmingham, the…
Police Force Train Dogs to Headbutt
You really couldn’t make it up… a Welsh police force is training its dogs to headbutt criminals rather than bite them, because politically correct – ‘PC’ – bosses are afraid that allowing the dogs to bite criminals will infringe their…
TV Shows Are A Dog’s Life
Dog lovers must have been quite pleased by the amount of canines seen on prime time television recently; between the hunt for Toto on ‘Over the Rainbow’ and Tina and Chandi on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, there were plenty of four…
Origins of The Domestic Dog: Did We Get it Wrong?
The Origins of the Domestic Dog are Challenged: It has always been suggested that the domestic dog originated in East Asia until findings from recent scientific studies that have been conducted on dogs in Africa. It is due to the…
How to Work as a Pet Sitter
Many people pet sit as a hobby or as a favour to friends or neighbours. Nowadays though, more and more people are doing it as a profession, and are taking the service they provide very seriously. Although there is no…
Should Electric Collars be Banned?
K9 Magazine takes a look at one of the most controversial subjects in the entire dog world, a much maligned defendant takes to the stand. The electric shock dog training collar. These are the collars that actually administer an electrical…
Why The Kennel Club Closed Registry is Harmful to Dogs
Quite simply. this is one of the most important articles on the dangers of a closed registry system. It is written by the eminent dog blogger Patrick Burns and kindly republished with his permission. No matter what your political views…