Dog and Bone Club

04/07/2025

Yesterday we did a hot trail treasure hunt in scentwork class. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️
Everyone started with a word search which unlocked the map, they then had to find the hidden pirate objects and then follow the trails from the object to find words. Once the words were found they had to work out the sentence to unlock the b***y!
Well done to Carina and Rita for winning. Also big well done to team Tia and Star for producing the best photo. Of course well done to Minty, Cesar, Fred and Syd too! 👏 👏 👏

Turns out our spicy dogs were more korma, verging on a Sunday roast rather than vindaloo which is always the case with scentwork and I think a pleasant surprise to their humans 🤗🧡🐾
I’m sure everyone slept well last night, you all covered a lot of ground and used those noggins well 🧠 👃
Not one person asked for a clue which we found quite funny and definitely shows human nature. See you all next week. 🩵🧡🌟😎🐾

01/07/2025

We have some very exciting at HQ!

Please give a HUGE warm welcome to Christine who is joining the Dog and Bone Club family 🤗

Christine will be offering sociable paired and or very small group walks on a part time basis and thus we have capacity to take on few sociable dogs.
If you are prepping for the September intake, now would be a good time to trickle your dog into our service.
We have known Christine for quite some time 🙂 She has been one of Ann’s dog sitting customers, we meet up regularly with her for walks and we do hoopers together. She is very kind, sensible and active.

Christine’s background was in farming and she has been running her own dog care business since she retired. She follows the same ethics as ourselves and is an all round wonderful human. She will be a great asset to the team! 🐾🐾

26/06/2025

I’m afraid to say we have more sad news, there’s quite the gathering over rainbow bridge at the moment.
Big George the Cavapoo sadly passed away very suddenly this week.
We have been walking G since he was wee dog. He was both cuddly and independent, loved his travels across Europe, open topped car journies and of course gave a lot of confidence to his nervous little sister Abbey who didn’t have a great start to life. He was sassy, intelligent and a friend to our own boys.

G’s haircuts have been a constant source of giggles for us. Normally George had a lovely sleek practical do but I remember once when Viv tried to recreate the iconic ‘Boo’ haircut and he came out looking like a dashboard bobble head 🧡🧡 and I won’t forget his little ball fringe 😆🩵

G had quite the fantastic wardrobe. One in particular would make a swish swish swish noise as he walked so you’d always know where he was.
He would chase flies so you’d always could never stay still for too long and he knew a huge array of tricks. What a clever boy.

We’ll miss you GG, you can now be the official Portuguese translator for the D&BC forever club.

19/06/2025

Idk what’s really going on at the moment in the professional dog world, social media seems to be some kind of gladiator hole where everyone’s being mean to each other. Anyway I’m not here for it so here is a list of a few things I like:
-The little jog people do when they’re crossing the road
-A mid week samosa for lunch
-Giving a corner of said samosa to whoever has the top seat
-Days that I have enough human water on me, I’m one of those people that are convinced they’re dying if they don’t drink water every few minutes.
-When dogs jump along long grass like tigger
-When dogs are so asleep on the way home that I have to wake them up when we get to their house
-Sandwiches from Bella’s Bakery that are bigger than a child’s head
-When someone sends me a playlist for the dogs in the car! Yes!! Do this more often.
-Everyone’s pyjamas, you guys all have some funky patterns! It’s rare that I see someone in outdoor clothes these days.
-When I go to Cleo’s we put her harness on the kids toys, finding it brings me joy.
-People telling me about their new special interest, yes more of this.

Ok, I’m going to mull on some more. Oh and we’re away until mid next week incase you’re wondering why we take a while replying to you. Do still send cute pics of dogs though!

18/06/2025

05/06/2025

I’m afraid to say our beautiful rambunctious pensioner Scruffy passed over the rainbow bridge last week.

Scruffy was of course the it girl of Abbeydale road, she knew what she liked and that was walking immediately left out of her house, the chewy meaty dog treats and not the cronchy ones and going through her dog flap over and over again.

If Scruffy was a person she would be Jenny Joseph in her purple era, (we can swiftly age everyone here to whether you covered this in your GCSEs or not). Like Joseph, she ran her stick against public railings, sat down on the pavement when she got tired and most certainly would have pressed alarm bells and spent her money on summer gloves.

Scruffy will be greatly missed and left a huge imprint on us all at Dog and Bone Club. Thanks for letting us into your life Scruffy you were awesome!

03/06/2025

Happy pride month everyone! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
As per every year, we are a genuinely safe space all year round and not just for June 🙂🌟🐾

30/05/2025

I’m afraid we didn’t take many snaps between us this week but it has been a really lovely one.
Sighthounds were sooooo thankful for some rain so they could finally run again. 💕💕💕 Been so lovely to see! So we have done lots of walks starting in the fields so they could have a good raz and really enjoy themselves. I’m so happy with Lurcher Dougal’s progress, he is so engaged now and loves Neil! They had a lovely great big spin together today. Lurcher Willow is also continuing with her progress and has made 4 friends now! I didn’t grab a pic as I was in the zone with her today 🙂

If you don’t have a sighthound there’s two things that fill Sighthound owner’s with dread, one is hard ground and the other is laminate floors. 😆
You really know a noodle hound house because their floors resemble patchwork quilts with all these blumming runners everywhere and we all flock to the beach to let our dogs have a great big run when the ground gets hard 🤣 cue my last post where we had the best time at the beach!

Anyway, have the bestest weekend and hope you’re doing something fun. I’m dog sitting sweet Bella and I’ll finally catch up finishing this essay that I’ve been procrastinating about for goodness knows how long. Hopefully by the end of next year I will have finally finished my level 6 in canine behaviour and if I do we will have a great big D&BC party where you can tell me all your problems haha! 😜 🥳 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

29/05/2025

Lots of fun things going on next month! 🐾🙌💕

-Scentwork class - this is a game based Scentwork group where we play murder mysteries, puzzle games and rejiggled classic board games in order to build confidence and have fun. £15 per class and £10 for intro class. Payment instalments available. PLEASE BOOK DIRECTLY - DM or WhatsApp 07895549740

-Bonding games - fun play based games - one off group, perfect for those of you who can’t commit to a weekly class - BOOK VIA EVENTBRITE

-Slow socials - this is a fun mix of groundwork and confidence building, we have an on lead and off lead group. Suitable for all ages and abilities. BOOK VIA EVENTBRITE

-Off lead socials - small groups where dogs can socialise at their own pace. There may be cake 🍰 BOOK VIA EVENTBRITE

-Neutral walks - Fully booked

-1:1 training - Specialising in Sighthounds - book directly - WhatsApp 07895549740 or DM

Tickets ⬇️
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/moss-valley-tails-94747541433

As always we appreciate those of you who share our posts 🧡🧡 thank you!

26/05/2025

Cue the most over the top video. Ann is dog sitting lovely Olive, she had a blast and was in love with resident Polly from Sheffield Pet Care 🏖️
Thanks for a lovely day everyone!

21/05/2025

Well a strange phenomenon has happened at Dog and Bone Club. And I will start with the premise that this isn’t an advert for nail cutting, I only offer this because I know people genuinely struggle with nail care.
So, I normally cut the dog’s nails when we get back to their houses or maybe at the end of the walk by the car (we’re blessed with a private car park for walks 🙏).
I decided to mix things up and cut one of my own dog’s nails mid walk at an ‘island of calm’ space.
Something strange happened, all the dogs got fomo. I’m not joking, they were jostling each other so they could go next. I ended up having to pretend to cut Ronja’s so she didn’t feel left out 🤣 Betsy was even offering me her feet without me asking. Eh! Some of these are dogs whose owners say they hate having their feet being touched. So this changes everything in my brain when it comes to husbandry, social learning is powerful isn’t it! 💚💚