Blogs About Dogs

Devon has two coastlines, a moor in the middle and a huge summer population, which makes it one of the richest counties we’ve covered for dog walks — and one of the trickiest for beach rules. Here’s a geographic spread from coast to moor, sourced to National Trust, the National Park Authorities, councils and Forestry

Devon turned out to have a genuinely solid cluster of secure, hire-by-the-hour dog exercise fields — more than most counties we’ve covered. We checked aggregator sites, operators’ own websites, Google reviews and Facebook pages directly, and we’re naming two likely bad listings so you don’t book them by mistake. Verified fields Exeter Dog Field, near

Devon is a big county, and we found its dog-walker coverage genuinely uneven: one strong, council-backed scheme in the north, and a thin spot in the three biggest towns on our first pass, though a second look on Google Maps (below) found more. Here’s exactly what we found, honestly, rather than padding the gaps with

Devon has a genuinely strong spread of dog-friendly pubs, cafés and bistros once you look beyond the generic “best of” listicles. We checked CAMRA’s own dog-friendly tags, tourism-board listings and venues’ own policy pages directly, and we’re naming two closures so they don’t get accidentally reused from an older list. Exeter and East Devon The

Devon is one of the biggest dog-holiday counties in England, and the accommodation to match it is genuinely good once you know where to look. We checked hotel chains directly on their own sites, independent hotels and B&Bs, self-catering cottages and holiday parks, rather than leaning on a single aggregator list. Here’s what we could

Secure, hire-by-the-hour dog exercise fields have taken off across Great Britain over the last few years, so we went looking for one in Derry and Strabane for dogs that need off-lead space away from other dogs or livestock. We couldn’t find one — not a thin listing to be cautious about, but a genuine, confirmed

We went looking for an independent dog walker in Derry and Strabane that we could genuinely vouch for — a named business with a website, an active Facebook page, press coverage, or real, checkable reviews. We came back empty-handed, so rather than pad out a list with thin or unverifiable names, here’s what we actually

Derry and Strabane sit either side of the River Foyle, with the Sperrin foothills rising to the south, so there’s real variety here: riverside paths, Woodland Trust forests, a wildfowl-rich country park and a couple of proper hillside climbs. Here’s what we could verify directly from council, Forest Service, Woodland Trust and tourism board sources,

Derry city has one of Northern Ireland’s best-known pub scenes, packed along Waterloo Street, Foyle Street and Orchard Street. So it’s a genuine surprise that almost none of those well-known pubs state a dog policy anywhere we could find, named source or not. We’re reporting that gap honestly rather than guessing, alongside the handful of

Looking for somewhere to stay with your dog in Derry or Strabane? We checked hotel chains, independent hotels, B&Bs, self-catering cottages and campsites directly on their own websites or official tourism board listings, rather than trusting a generic “pet-friendly” badge. Here’s what we could genuinely verify, with a few honest gaps flagged too. Hotels Holiday