I have a dog for the week!

May have rabies !

The dog's made a mess on the carpet!

that backstory sounds contrived? 'Deepest Andulucia' are they importing wounded dogs into britain.. with quarantine rules?

Fake news.

I'm currently in Ermita Nueva Zorro.

You put him outside overnight, in the cold?

Would you like it if someone did that to you?

It might be the way but I don't think it's the right way to treat a pet dog.

Outside kennels (heated in cold weather) is ok for working dogs.

I'm holidaying in Spain. I usually come out here in February.

My dog would sleep outside all year round if I let her. As long as they have access to three walls and a roof somewhere in the yard, they're happy. Their circulation is completely different to ours.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2085646/Dogs-paws-warm-frozen-ground-special-circulation-system.html

The only reason I bring her in is that I'm happier that she's there with me to provide an alert against intruders, being deaf myself. And I need her to let me know the alarm's gone off when necessary. But it's a right pain getting her to come in of a night sometimes. She'd be much happier remaining out in the frost keeping watch for mice, foxes, badgers etc.

There is also the gata de casa to consider. She has the run of the house. There is a dog lead hung up here but I'm guessing it's had less use than Diane Abbots step machine!

Some of them do have an obsession with accessing sofas.

25 years ago I got a couple of mutts from Heaven's Gate Animal Sanctuary in the Mendips, and decided that this time I was going to put my foot down and not have my furniture ruined by dogs. They were quite an old pair, 7 and 9 years old, and had been in the cage at the sanctuary for nearly a year, so I thought they'd have been weaned off home comforts. No chance. I opened the living room door to let them in, and before I had a chance even to suggest they might prefer the beds I'd provided, they'd trotted straight over to the settee, curled up together and never once used the beds in the subsequent 8 or 9 years I had them.

It became a matter of principle that any sofa was theirs. They were staying at my parents' once, with my dad on one end of their sofa and one of the dogs asleep next to him and no room for the other one. So the latter went and stood in front of an armchair, which had some luggage resting on it, and kept looking from the armchair to my dad and back again. In the end my dad got up to move the luggage, so the dog could use the armchair, whereupon the dog jumped straight up onto the sofa, settled down and shut his eyes.

The villa has wifi. I log into the forum just the same as I would at home.

That second shot - did you know the dog's made a mess on the carpet.

Just got back from Bedford, dog sitting my brothers 2 Yorkies whilst him and his missus were in Cape Verde. Such lovely little munchkins the pair of them, it was a pleasure to take care of them both.

You're doing good work SB.
I stayed in a nice e place on Friday night, Cortijo Sabila, featured a few times on TV. The owners have 4 dogs, two airedales brought from the UK, one abandoned dog from the local town, which they brought back home after a couple of shopping trips, and one neighbours dog who'd worn its teeth down trying to bite through the metal chain it was tethered to 24/7.Some kind people out there. Let's not despair. Toby will be sleeping inside if he rocks up tonight.

Slippy, you have a heart of gold

Virtual signalling? What's that?

My little Pomeranian is in the wars, chemotherapy at Fitzpatricks again next week. He is wobbly on his pins again but I'll do whatever it it takes to get him well