Ava’s story continues and takes a positive turn. Ava makes huge progress when she begins exploring the big wide world – Ava Chapter 5. As the days passed, we settled into a routine of Ava spending most of her days behind the chair, often ignoring the comfortable dog bed and instead lying on the wooden…
Ava’s second day with us began in the way the previous day had finished, with Ava hiding in the bedroom. I was becoming concerned as she hadn’t been to the toilet since she had arrived with us. I managed to catch her by closing the bedroom door, which shut off other escape routes to her.…
I carried Ava into the house. She was shaking and struggling to get away from my hold. I set her down in the living room and she ran behind the recliner which was next to the wall. No amount of persuading or cajoling could bring her out. She was panting and showing signs of distress.…
The house felt strangely quiet after Ellie died. Since I’d met my husband we had always shared three dogs. He brought two into our relationship and I’d brought Ellie. Suddenly we were a two-dog family and we were all missing Ellie’s presence in our own way. Now DBARC had more rescues looking for homes, it…
Ava is a Miniature Schnauzer, she is five years old, or at least that’s what we have been told, by the lovely people at the Diana Brimblecombe Rescue Centre (DBARC) in Wokingham, Berkshire. No one can be quite sure of Ava’s age, as prior to her rescue from a puppy farm, Ava would not have…
*** Introducing something new, exciting and informative *** Mad About Schnauzers started off as an ordinary, everyday Schnauzer group and we trundled along nicely for a while. But then we began to see that we could do some good – that there are a lot of rescues out there who need a degree of help…