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Bath and Bristol Agility
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Live with Bristol & Bath Agility

Hello, lovely Pet Parents, you 😀 With the Olympics arriving, it got us thinking about dogs, the sports they can play, and what their Olympic equivalent would be as well.  It wasn’t hard, but we eventually concluded that agility training and events such as Crufts would be the equivalent of the Olympics in the dog …

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Sports to Play with Your Dog

The Olympics have offically begun, and many of us will be spending some of our days watching various Olympians compete in a wide variety of sports for the opportunity to win a medal for their country. But even with the excitement of the Olympics, at Bounce and Bella, we couldn’t help but start to wonder …

Separation Anxiety in Dogs and A Dog Called Today
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Separation Anxiety in Dogs and How To Help

Did you know that separation anxiety in dogs was a thing? Like humans, dogs can experience anxiety, and for a myriad of reasons, and as Pet Parents, it’s our job to identify those reasons and help out dogs deal with their anxiety.  Now, after over a year of most of us being at home and …

why play is important for dogs feature photo of a jack Russell playing with a ball
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Why Play is Important for Dogs

Sometimes as Pet Parents, it can be easy to lose ourselves in training, reading the various articles relating to canine health or becoming too focused on daily walks and practising recall that we forget one of the most important things we can do with our dogs. Play! We all know that play can be incredibly …

Ruby, a red fox Labrador holding her favourite toy, a yellow squeaky donut in her mouth while looking up at the camera.
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Your Dog’s Favourite Toy Competition

**Competition Closed 19th April 2021. Congratulations to our winner Ragnar!** Hello, you lovely Pet Parent you 🙂 Today marks the start of the first weekend after lockdown. I’ve found myself repeating a lyric fragment again and again over the last few months. If anyone gets pulled into my whinging orbit, they hear me saying, “Yes… …

Roscoe, a long-haired white German Shepard running in a. field on a sniff walk
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Sniff Walk – Sniffing & Happiness for Dogs

Have you ever given your dog a sniff walk? A sniff walk probably means all sorts of different things to different people – but for me, it means a walk for your dog with the main aim being to give them licence to go sniffing like crazy. It’s different from our usual walk. With Roscoe, …

Hidden Nasties Feature Photo: A sad dog leaning it's head on the back of the sofa.
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Hidden Nasties in Dog Treats

When I got Sausage Suckered. “Argggh… I’ve gone into full-blown rant mode! You can tell by the number of exclamation marks!!!” That’s me two-thirds of the way down this post… why? Let me tell you… As well as selling on our own site, we also sell on some of the big online channels.  I regularly …

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When is 100% Chicken NOT 100% Chicken?

You may already have heard me say this, but our first dog Sorrel developed various itching and digestive issues as she got older. It was only many years later after we had started selling dog treats (and I experienced my own grain-based stomach problems), that I realised what had happened. We’d naively fed her big …

The Best Ways to Greet a Dog Feature Photo: A white toy poodle sitting down with it's paw raised in the air like it is waving.
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The 7 Best Ways to Greet a Dog For the First Time

As we come out of lockdown here in the UK, it’s a time of hope and excitement. After a long winter, it’s an opportunity for us to reunite with friends and family, whether in our gardens or local parks.  It’s also a time of excitement as it brings the opportunity to finally meet the furry …

Roscoe, a white long-haired German Shepard/Mucky Pup, standing in a field, the lower part of his body covered in mud.
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Bounce and Bella’s Mucky Pup Competition

**Competition Closed 19th April 2021. Congratulations to our Mucky Pup Winner Alfie!** The weather’s looking good; it’s the first weekend after the pubs re-opened, and things could get messy out there! But we’re pet parents and we can cope with messy – because we’ve had to…  (Roscoe, after he decided to go Two-Tone for the …