My dog

I like to see Penny solving problems for herself, when possible, because I think it's good for her to stretch her mental capabilities. ...

Recently, my sister worked on a new quilt. As I walked through the room where she had thrown the work-in-progress across a lounge chair, it ...

I bought a new toy recently, despite my decision to stop buying unnecessary 'stuff' for Penny. (But I can forgive myself for this br...

In a comment on my last post about activities to keep Penny thinking , Jess the Dog Shopper mentioned a game where dogs have to fetch a to...

After watching more of the BBC television programme, 'The Secret Life of Dogs', I was amazed by the canine genius who has a vocabul...

Boredom warning!! This is a long video of Penny trying out our new Nina Ottosson Dog Casino toy. I'm only posting it because I think peo...

It seemed a good time to try out our new Nina Ottosson toy today, as Penny was having kibble for her breakfast - boring stuff! So we got the...

I'm a sucker for a good dog toy, so today I just couldn't resist the wooden Seek-A-Treat, when I visited Murphys to buy one of my ...

On PetPlace there's a link to a funny video clip of a little dog trying to carry its soft toy through a small gap. I thought it was l...

Sometimes I think I must be silly to get involved in so many dog activities. Over the last few years Penny and I have done flyball, lure cou...

After many months of painstaking research, Penny has solved the almost-impossible problem of how to retrieve two Whirl Wheels from the river...

Today I received an email from VCAworld.com to say they are now stocking the Nina Ottosson toys! They said they will be receiving a small s...

Penny was excited when a big parcel arrived yesterday from the US. We had taken advantage of the free shipping offer by Clean Run . Well, sh...

Here we are, trying our own version of one of the toys from ' fun-with-dogs ', the German site devoted to enhancing human-canine int...

Slavenka has posted a link to an article in Time magazine about a study at Duke University in the US. The study will look at canine cognit...

Harvard University's Canine Cognition Lab is studying dog behavior and they want volunteers for their 'non-invasive' experimen...

While I was visiting Johann's blog , I saw a new game for dogs. It can be used as an intelligence-enhancing activity, or as a way of fee...

Today two household humans and a non-dog-owning visitor witnessed Penny solving a spatial problem. She had been outside with us as we looked...

Penny played with her Nina Ottosson dog toys tonight. Walks have been shorter than usual lately, for no special reason except that we've...