Recent content by james ensor

We have not adopted dogs from abroad, but we have rescued dogs abroad and found owners for them throughout Europe and in the country where we rescued them. The ones that have come to Europe have done far better. I would not pretend that they have been easy. It tends to depend upon just how...

The onset of rabies in India was well known to produce just this sort of situation. That is obviously unlikely in Britain. But another medical condition might have a similar effect.

It sounds as though your rescue dog has been abused by a workman in his previous life. Any dog can distinguish the smell of your relative and sense your reaction to your father. Such people will never be at risk. But workmen smell different to a dog. Biting a jacket is a mild warning to back...

When a rescue dog lunges, unexpectedly at somebody, it is trying to pre-empt a situation that has frightened it in its previous life. Sometimes you can see one, literally quaking with fear, at particular stimuli, even as it sits beside you in the safety of a closed car. The best way to cure...

We have just had an identical experience. In this case a dog, whom we rescued three years ago, was confronted by a very recent rescue from the same place, the Cape Verde islands. The dogs had played together and certainly knew each other quite well, in the Cape Verdes, where we fed them both...

We have personally rescued 10 dogs, from certain death, by strychnine poisoning. Of these four were puppies, absolutely terrified and being threatened by a German with a carving knife. After a month of individual feeding, they were able to be rehomed with local people, who needed them to guard...

Ridgebacks were used to hunt lion: so a fearless dog. Podengo Medio- the size of a whippet - chase only rabbit. You have a talent with the paint brush.

Freckles, You will know as you live in Spain that Podencos are hunting dogs. Most of the dogs that we have brought from Cape Verde have been the similar Podengo, from Portugal. They go completely wild , when they pick up the scent of a squirrel, rabbit or fox. I am sorry to say that they...

Many Cape Verdeans, especially the ruling elite who have had free education in Minsk or Smolensk or who were trained as Kommunister Jugend by the East German Stasi, dislike advice because they already feel that they know all the answers, from Marx and Engels. Unfortunately their only source of...

It is fair to say that all six of our dog rescues have been emotional. Apart from the two, which we have kept, none have gone to English people, and nobody, including us, actively was looking for a dog. So no dog from an English rescue home has been ignored. It is not easy to resist a sad face...

There is no need to import rescues. Our own dogs live abroad for much of the year and some of the other dogs that we have rescued are also abroad. But we see it from another perspective, where we face a stark and unenviable choice between rescuing a dog ourselves that we have been feeding and...

It was exactly the other way around. Two of the dogs we have taken on ourselves, never having intended to have a dog. We found a nice German girl, the friend of a friend to take on two together who were inseperable sisters. The dog in Scotland was actually wanted by two people who had seen him...

I can assure you that it is extremely difficult to find a good home for any dog in the UK, unless it is a puppy from a popular breed. However, in much of southern Europe and Africa, it is virtually impossible. All our rescued dogs from overseas were additional rather than alternative to UK...

We have now rescued five dogs from the Cape Verde islands and helped with another. Two are with us in London, two in Germany, another will join a friend in London soon and the sixth, whom we helped, is in Scotland. Why were they rescued? Because they came up to us whilst we were staying in the...