If you have been following Lilly's tales then you will know that she is a proper sighthound...if she sees it she will chase it…

After a very, very late night of typing away getting the magazine together I finally reached my bed around 4am - not a problem as I can usually get a lie in, as Damian is the early morning dog walker in the family. This holds true, except on a couple of days of the week…

Since we got Lilly we don't go out on Bonfire night.  To be honest we couldn't be bothered before we got her either, but now we make sure we are in with her. Luckily Lilly is…

Now I see lots of dogs around the park, some which have a lot longer fur than Lilly and you would think that this would mean they would get filthier than she does, but it's her weird quirk to…

The big number on the page may give you a clue to the age Lilly turned on the 4th of September. Yes, she is now six, middle-aged in dog years…

Lilly is the perfect dog...almost.

I say almost, because when we picked her up for that initial weekend to see if we got on, the only three things that were on our list were:

Here at Turner Towers we are fans of crime thrillers, detective shows and coroner based shows like Silent Witness, so we are quite familiar with the common, and rather overused trope of …

Damian and I are both in our 50s, and we have discovered that mid-life spread is a real thing. One day you are happily wearing your clothes, and then, almost overnight, all those clothes shrink. 'Tis a mystery! …

Quite a while ago I told you about Lilly's love for squeaky balls, and I've also mentioned her favourite toy, a quacking duck from Home Bargains, both of which are…

Nowadays, Lilly loves her food, but it wasn't always the case. When we got her she had been fed on dry dog food, and was an occasional grazer, not really bothered about eating. After heading to…

Over the past year and a half of owning Lilly, or, more accurately, being her loyal servants, we have seen her flourish into a dog that we can mostly trust off lead. Yes, she still has moments…

You see it is so much fun that Damian and my Mum come along too, which caused an issue in that my Mum is my usual dog sitter, so we had no one to look after Lilly.

Trying to find someone to look after her started 3 months before the event, which was when it was finally confirmed that the…

A Lurcher is a cross between a sighthound and a working dog, basically a dog bred to add intelligence to a fast dog. Lilly is part Whippet - the sighthound bit, therefore fast and truly loves to chase, and the other half is Staffy - the intelligent bit, so gentle, docile, and always on the lookout for fun….

As mentioned previously in these tales she occasionally goes off for a naughty wander through the woods. Most of the times she comes back, but…

Since getting Lilly both Damian and I have both been damaged by her. Well more like, damaged because of her.

Lilly, like every other dog, has nails, and nails that grow quite a bit. Lurcher nails are long anyway due to…

Our lovely little Lilly turned 5 , and it got us pondering what she looked like as a puppy….

This month with the lovely Lilly has been painful, joyful and mysterious.

Let's go in reverse order and start with the mysterious...

Well this month Lilly threw us a bit of a scary wobbler.  Damian had got up early and was presented with a very strange looking dog, definitely not the same dog that went to sleep the night before….

Lilly is quite an unusual dog in so many ways. She doesn't do regular dog things like pilfering food, she is hopeless with balls, and she doesn't destroy…

When we got Lilly she was reproductively intact, and having owned neutered pets in the past, this was a new experience.  We enquired about spaying…

One of the prerequisites for re-homing Lilly last year was that she had to be good whilst being a passenger in cars, for obvious reasons. The problem is she isn’t great at it, mainly….

As plenty of reviews have shown we are not short of warm weather gear in the Turner household, but I still don't relish the getting suited'n'booted aspect of dog walking. It is such a phaff!

This month has been all about us figuring out Lilly's diet. When we got her she came with half a 20Kg bag of Aldi's dry dog food. From what we know this was what she was given in the morning and left to eat it throughout the day….

As I am writing this it has been almost a month by since the lovely Lilly graced Muddy Towers with her presence, and what a learning curve those days have been…