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At the moment many of us are only allowed outside for essential activities or exercise once a day and some dogs that are used to having several walks are only getting one. We’ve all been discovering new ways to fill our time and some of us have finally been getting round to things that we have wanted to do for ages. This week we really enjoyed reading about a lady called Joe who set up an obstacle course for her dogs and her chickens in Clacton-on-Sea. Joe is a professional dog trainer and she has wanted to set up a course...

Have you ever tried to work out your pet’s age in cat or dog years? Do they act their ‘age’? Until very recently people have used the same ‘multiply by 7’ formula for both - but now scientists reckon we’ve been doing it all wrong… A new way to measure dog years Based on average lifespans we tend to assume that a dog ages 7 years for each of our 1. So a 1-year-old puppy is like a 7-year-old child and a 14-year-old dog is a 98-year-old pensioner. However, scientists in California have just debunked the dog-year theory with new...