Diarmuid MacShane

When I was on my holidays a couple of weeks ago, I had so much fun one of my teeth fell out. My human was very worried and decided to take my to the dentist to get the rest of my teeth checked out.

I went first last week and the very nice dentists (Paul)  looked after me really really well. He checked everything out and told my human that I really needed my teeth cleaned and maybe other things done. I went back in yesterday morning. My human was really very worried – she even cried when she left me in the surgery – she must really love me.

I didn’t really know what was going on though – I was really excited that I was going on an adventure. I didn’t know that I’d be getting a general anesthetic to get my teeth cleaned. I was so excited at the start, they even had to sedate me a little to be quiet. So you can probably guess why I’m looking so knackered in the picture here. Everything went really well during the “procedure” – though I did have to get another tooth taken out. But on the positive side, I have beautiful clean teeth now and I don’t think my mouth is as stinky as it was before.

From now on though, I’m going to be just like my human and clean my teeth regularly ever night – and go to the dentist more regularly 🙂

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BUSINESS stinks – but it’s picking up. That’s the catchy tag line of Ireland’s first official dog waste removal company. Entrepreneur, William O’Brien, is facing down the recession and officially launching his Scoopy Poo venture today.

It’s an interesting business proposition, but I do wonder whether it might have been more appropriate to have been set up at the start of the Celtic Tiger rather than the end of it. You could see how people would have had enough money to splash out on a service like this in those head days, but you would also expect that this kind of expense would be one of the first to be cut when times got tougher and money got tighter. Not my problem anyway. I already have two humans who pick up my poo after me, and I don’t have to pay them a penny.

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Pet movement ban extended SEÁN Mac CONNELL, Agriculture Correspondent Fri, Mar 12, 2010 IRELAND HAS won the right to prevent the importation of cats and dogs from continental Europe on EU “passports” which allow free movement of pets between most member states. It lobbied with the UK, Malta and Sweden to impose its own stricter regulations including microchipping and proof vaccination has worked, before allowing pets enter the country. EU pet passports allow free movement between member states if an animal is micro-chipped and has proof of vaccination against rabies. But Ireland, the UK and Sweden sought to have their ban on free movement extended and yesterday in the European Parliament they won an extension of the ban until December 2011. Ireland will continue to insist pets are vaccinated and subject to quarantine.

I am a micro-chipped doggy, and I was allowed come to Ireland using my pet passport. Making it to Ireland from China nearly 7 years ago was a long and painful process for my human and me because of all the bureaucracy and paperwork involved. With these new changes reported in that newspaper report, that wouldn’t have been possible for me.

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