Finn & Friends

23/01/2026

After a rocky end to 2025 its been so nice to start easing back into work this week with these guys ❤️

16/12/2025

My Finn ❤️ a little more on his story in the blog!

Meet Finn. As a puppy, he suffered the cruel consequences of ear-cropping done purely for cosmetic reasons. His litter endured pain, infection and trauma.

Recently, the UK has taken an important step forward for every Finn. The Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Act 2025 has become law.

✅ What this law will do:

🐾 Ban import of dogs and cats under 6 months old no more tiny puppies arriving far too young.
🐾 Ban importing pets that have been mutilated (e.g. cropped ears, docked tails, declawed cats).
🐾 Prevent heavily pregnant animals being imported protecting vulnerable mothers and unborn litters.

This isn’t just about stricter rules, it’s about safeguarding their welfare, stopping profiteers and giving every dog and cat a fair chance to live healthily and happily.

If you care about animal welfare, please share this post. Together, we can help ensure stories like Finn’s become a thing of the past and celebrate a new era of compassion and responsibility for UK pets. 💙

Read more about Finn's story at https://www.bathcatsanddogshome.org.uk/blog/finn

21/11/2025

Gorgeous Koda is keeping me on my toes while his parents have a well deserved holiday, gotta love a husky ❤️

08/11/2025

Loving the autumn walks this week 🥰 🍂

05/11/2025

Hide and seek with Halley 🤣

26/10/2025

Anyone who knows me knows that I have a huge space in my heart for staffys… Meet Maggie who I’m looking after this week 🥰

21/10/2025

Girls day today with these two lovely ladies 😊

14/10/2025

Anyone else have a reactive dog?

I took this picture last night while feeling incredibly proud of him (and maybe myself a little too). I was planning on sharing a story about how far Finn has come with his training recently. I felt like it was the perfect walk - he was responsive, engaged and had just been doing amazing from the second we left the house.

We had seen several dogs by the time I took this photo, and instead of his usual frustration at wanting to go and greet them, pulling or throwing himself around he was looking, before focusing back on me. I was in shock, I kept looking at my partner smiling and saying ‘look how far he’s come!’

Well, the walk home was a different story…
Finn saw a dog who has been reactive to him in the past a little way ahead. All the focus and engagement we had previously were gone. He began pulling, spinning, up on two legs. It took me a few minutes to calm him down enough to continue. As we turned onto our street, he saw a squirrel, and again became incredibly frustrated. We got him back to the house, gave him some enrichment to wind down and I felt deflated.

However, the more I thought about it, the more guilty I felt for feeling that way. He did do amazing, he walked out of the house and immediately saw another dog and refocused. He watched a dog walking past on the opposite side of the road and stayed sat the entire time. Was it a perfect walk? No. Could it have been better? Yes. Could I have done better to prevent it? Maybe… but regardless, just a few months ago, the entire walk would have been hoping we don’t run into anyone. He’s grown so much and I will always be incredibly proud of him.
With our reactive dogs it’s so important to focus on those positives, while remembering there may always be days where they feel overwhelmed by something, and that’s okay.

Anyone else had walks like this?

19/09/2025

Great start to the day so far 🥰 started with Finn, followed by his friends Caesar, Nova and Kiara ❤️

18/09/2025

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