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Federica Carr shares highlights and insights of travelling by train from London to Southern Italy with her fluffy four-legged sidekick Amber in a series of Continental Canine posts.

Most dog owners can be divided into two groups: the first is made up of those who get a dog, perhaps following a fashion or a whim of a family member, and attach it to their lives as an accessory, treating it as as animal and often omitting to provide the most basic level of care and affection a pet requires.

The second category is the one my husband and I most surely fall under, that is to say those of us who get a pooch and soon become so engrossed by it that we then treat it as a fully fledged member of the family, bestowing the dog with possibly, in the eyes of some, too much affection and often the same level of care given to the human members of the family. Continue reading →