Blogs About Dogs

Dundee packs a surprising amount of dog-walking variety into a small council area: a reclaimed riverside park on the Tay, a famous (and famously debated) seasonal beach ban, wooded hills, and a scattering of city parks each with their own council-published rules. Here’s what we found, sourced to Dundee City Council’s own leaflets and the

We’ll be straight with you: we couldn’t verify a secure, hire-by-the-hour dog field actually inside Dundee City. It’s a compact urban council area without much spare farmland for this kind of site. We did find one genuine option a short drive out, and we’re flagging exactly where it sits rather than pretending it’s local. The

Dundee has something we haven’t seen anywhere else in this project so far: a genuine council-run accreditation scheme for dog walkers, called Dog Watch Dundee. It’s voluntary rather than a legal licence, but it means the council actually inspects and approves the businesses on its list, which is a stronger form of independent verification than

We’ll be honest about this one: Dundee’s dog-friendly pub scene is real but thin on verified detail, and the café side is thinner still. We checked CAMRA’s own “Dog Friendly” pub tags rather than relying on round-up articles, several of which contradicted CAMRA’s own data outright — so this list is shorter than some you’ll

Dundee isn’t the obvious dog holiday destination of the Highlands or the coast, but as a compact “City of Discovery” with the Tay on its doorstep, it’s a fine base for a short break with a dog in tow. We checked each hotel’s own site or booking platform rather than taking an aggregator’s word for

Dorset has about as much variety in a single county as you’ll find anywhere in England: Jurassic Coast cliffs, open heath, forest tracks and a gentle river valley, often all within half an hour’s drive of each other. Figo’s favourite is still a toss-up between sand and heather. Here’s our pick of routes, each checked

Figo is good off the lead, but I know plenty of Dorset dogs who need a properly fenced field rather than a wide-open beach, whether that’s recall still in progress, a reactive streak, or simply a dog who’d rather not share his space with strangers. We checked each of these against its own booking site

Figo doesn’t love being walked by anyone other than me, but plenty of working dog owners in Dorset need someone reliable on the days they can’t do it themselves. There’s no shortage of dog walkers advertising locally, but genuine independent verification — a working business history, real reviews on a platform the business doesn’t control,

Figo’s definition of a good pub is simple: somewhere with a water bowl, a bit of floor to stretch out on, and nobody minding if he sighs loudly during the starters. Dorset does well by that standard — we found 25 venues across the county with a genuinely confirmed dog-friendly policy, mostly from CAMRA’s own

Figo has strong opinions about hotel carpets (he rates them for sniffability, obviously), so whenever we’re planning a Dorset trip, the pet policy gets checked before the view does. Dorset’s coastline and countryside make it a brilliant dog holiday county, but “pet-friendly” can mean anything from a free run of the lounge to a strict