There are so many beautiful and affectionate animals in shelters around the region just waiting to love you. So if you’re looking for a furry friend, please do think hard before you buy from a breeder.
Beware the Oleander shrub, popular in the P-O for its evergreen qualities and delicate flowers and planted in quantity to jazz up roadsides, and gardens.
If you find your dog shaking its head violently from side to side, and pawing its ear, this could mean that it has a grass seed in its ear which, if not removed, can cause…
Beaches in the P-O that allow dogs in summer.
We wouldn’t have been there at all if The Cat had had his way. Linda Razzell’s amusing account of moving to France, cat and all!
According to the pharmaceutical company MSD Santé Animale, the Pyrénées-Orientales are part of the geographical areas “most exposed” to the risk of leishmaniasis, similar to the rest of the French Mediterranean, Italy, Greece, southern Catalonia,…
These are in fact caterpillar nests, constructed by the pine processionary caterpillar (chenille processionnaire) larva, who live in large ‘tents’ and march out at night in single file (hence the name) to feed on the pine needles.
We wouldn’t have been there at all if The Cat had had his way. Linda Razzell’s amusing account of moving to France, cat and all!
There are so many beautiful and affectionate animals in shelters around the region just waiting to love you. So if you’re looking for a furry friend, please do think hard before you buy from a breeder.
La SPA (Société Protectrice des Animaux) was created in 1845 by Doctor Etienne Pariset. Touched by the poor treatment of many cart and carriage horses on the streets of Paris, the society was at first devoted to the welfare of horses. It grew quickly, thanks to support from several renowned French ‘intellectuals’ such as Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant.