If you think your dog needs to see a vet then don’t wait around trying to fix things yourself at home, go to the vet! These are the things we use for small scrapes/ailments while I’m waiting on a non-urgent vet appointment or for things I know will clear up on their own. Sally hurt her shoulder about a month ago, and due to deferred pain and boredom chewed a hotspot on her elbow. I’ve been treating it for the last 2 weeks (almost healed now). I realised I’ve used just about every “first aid” product I have in the dog cupboard. I’m going to talk you through what we have, because it’s a fairly s ..read more

Wild Walks With Fluffy Wolf Sally in a local graveyard looking for squirrels and completely ignoring the snowdrops There are two things I look forward to in February – sunsets later than 5pm bringing an end to the darkest days of winter, and the first signs of spring. For me, the first sign I consider an actual sign (and not just a confused garden plant that hasn’t looked at a calendar) is the snowdrops popping up. To me these wee white flowers mean spring is (finally) on the way. I’ve been taking Sally walks round a local cemetery where in the last fortnight many clumps of these small white f ..read more

And Neither Should Your Pet Carnivore… One of these two creatures is vegan, the other eats vegan creatures… It’s already halfway through January. It’s been hard to escape the “new year, new me” bandwagon and the ever more present “Veganuary” initiative to encourage us to embrace a vegan diet to improve our personal health and reduce our environmental impact. So, it’s hardly surprising that an increasing number of vegan pet foods have arrived on the market. It’s such an easy sell: if you love animals then why should they suffer just to feed your pet? Don’t you want to minimise your carbon footp ..read more

Wild Walks During the first UK total lockdown from March 2020, Sally and I went for long walks while we waited for the world to heal. I started filming one walk per week and posting online as “Wednesday Walks”, as people locked down in cities, and people far from Scotland were asking me to show them our surroundings. Surprisingly to me (since my Instagram is supposedly focused around Sally), the big attraction wasn’t Sally herself but the landscape, and the little things. I was asked for the names of flowers, the bird calling in the background, the rock types of the bright pebbles in the stre ..read more

Sally wearing the Tractive Dog 4 attached to her harness.Tractive – Wearable GPS with us on every walk Our getting ready for a dog walk routine: call dog, dress her with collar and harness, find snacks and poo bags, get my shoes and coat, pick up her leash and make a final check she’s wearing her Tractive GPS. Sally’s been a Tractive dog since her teenage sleddog phase, when for her safety and my peace of mind I bought a first generation Tractive. We upgraded to the new Dog 4 GPS last January, so have now field and loch and going through gorse bushes tested it. Tractive recently asked me would ..read more

Seaside paddles in the cooler evening As I write this, the UK is currently undergoing our hottest ever weather, and while Scotland isn’t suffering the same 40 °C heat as England’s south coast, we have daytime temperatures in the mid to high 20s – about 10°C hotter than is comfortable for Sally and her fluffy kin. So, what am I doing to keep a fluffy wolf cool? What actually works and what just looks cute in Tiktok videos but is no real use? Ice To feed or not to feed? You might have seen the viral Facebook post “written by a vet” that says NOT to feed ice as it can upset dogs thermoregulation ..read more

The Story of the Scaredy-Wolf Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bangs… Updated November 2021 “Remember, remember the 5th of November”, or so goes the rhyme. No one (and that includes us) with a firework-reactive dog is ever likely to forget. The first fireworks of bonfire-season went off near us recently and Sally went back to hiding in the (empty) bath – it’s a cold, enclosed, small space so it makes her feel safe. Sally is firework phobic and has been since a fear period after her second season coincided with the Edinburgh Festival. She was exposed to the Tattoo and then the end of Festival fi ..read more

For the folks in a hurry for the recipe who just want the instructions without it’s life history, you’re in luck. Recipe first then I’ll tell the story! Recipe: 500-1000g of raw or cooked meaty bones. Ideally this includes 6-8 chicken or duck feet or a deer hoof or a pigs trotter 150 ml of apple cider vinegar or lemon juice teaspoon/small bunch each of any dog-safe herbs or spices (curly parsley, ginger, turmeric etc) large soup pot (4-6 litre) to boil in water to fill the pot (4-5 litres) Method: add the bones, herbs (if using), vinegar and water to the pot bring to the boil ..read more

It’s not enough for me to be a content (media) creator, I also need to feel I’m a content (happy) creator. My new year resolution was to blog more. I made this website so I could use it. If you read my earlier posts/follow Sally on Instagram @scotlandwithfluffywolf you’ll know that over the last year I’ve more or less abandoned this blog. Why? I had plenty I wanted to say, but I wasn’t sure if I should go ahead and say it. This is what happened… The TLDR version is that I got fed up being asked to do ads for *really* random stuff and then being told I was a loser when I refused, for the full v ..read more

Are Samoyeds expensive/aren’t Samoyeds expensive? I get asked this question or some variant of it about once a week, so I thought it was worth answering in detail for anyone considering a Samoyed (or indeed any other dog). I get frequent puppy enquiries on Sal’s Instagram (please note: social media is NOT the place to go looking for a dog, instead you are best to contact your local and national breed clubs and rescues). After I tell them I’m not a breeder and Sally isn’t ever having puppies, the next questions invariably include “how much did you pay for Sally?”, and  “are Samoyeds expen ..read more