Oaktree Home and Garden

Spice up your cat’s playtime by adding a Catnip Playsack sachet to a favourite toy or place where your cat likes to lie or hide, the sack measures 12cm x 9cm and is filled with organic catnip.
If you prefer loose Catnip sprinkle around some Organic Catnip Flowers and Leaves instead.
Catnip is the common [...]

Dog Coats. All dogs have a natural coat, some need a bit more protection than others in certain cold and wet conditions.
Long haired dogs are less likely to feel the cold but you will know only too well how long it takes to get them dry after a wet walk.
Short haired dogs are easier [...]

I recently read an article concerning the rescue by a lifeboat crew of a Jack Russell who had fallen down a cliff.
One reader had commented that as a lifelong supporter of the RNLI he felt that the contributions he made to the lifeboat service were wasted on pet and animal rescue and the service [...]

With the darker nights creeping up on us, more dog walkers are having to take their pets for walks in the fading light.
There are a lot of mad motorists out there whose recklessness costs not only human life but animal’s lives too. With this in mind it is worth considering buying a High Visibility [...]

Two words sum up Electronic Dog Training Collars, Ban them.
Supporters of these collars will say that the dog is not harmed in any way and that they are a good method of stopping a dog from barking.
Would they consider putting them on a baby that cries incessantly, obviously not.
Barking is a form of communication, [...]

No you haven’t misread the title, it is not the usual Dog Bites Postman story.
The culprit is, to quote its owner, a fluffy kitten, who playfully or otherwise leapt at the letterbox when the postwoman was delivering mail to the house causing injury to her hand.
The postwoman felt it serious enough to complain to her [...]

There must be a Bank Holiday due as the recent warm weather has subsided to a more typically cool and damp feel associated with Bank Holidays.
Not that the weather will deter us Brits from making the most of our long awaited Bank Holidays in May and June.
So what are you planning other than some in [...]

In these hard financial times we are all having to make cut backs but does that mean abandoning our best friends?
I was horrified to read how many pets were being abandoned on the streets, taken to rescue centres on a daily basis. In some cases reports of owners killing their pets has been reported. [...]

Jack the Chocolate Labrador was out walking with his owner early on Thursday morning along the footpath which runs next to the river at Truro in Cornwall when Jack slipped over the edge of the footpath and plunged ten feet onto the muddy riverbed, the incoming tide was rising fast and with no obvious means [...]

It is probably not something that we give a second thought to, however, blood donation from Dogs and Cats is a topic that pet owners should consider.
At present the Pet Blood Bank UK (PBBuk), in Loughborough has collected blood from over 1000 dogs since 2005 and they are now hoping to set up a similar [...]