Welcome to "Man with two dogs" - the family website for dog owners and dog walkers.

DOG STORIES are always likely to get a good reception from the Man with Two Dogs. Better still is a story that might have associations with Sea Dog Bamse whose story, retired Montrose GP Andrew Orr, and I, wrote together.

HAVING SPENT months devising ways to outwit the jackdaws which used to descend on the bird tables outside the kitchen window, chasing off all the songbirds and gobbling up the peanuts, I’m facing a new quandary.

DAILY LIFE in Nature is generally much the same as daily life in our own human world – mostly a bit humdrum and, in the case of the birds and the beasts, dealing with the business of survival. Looked at from our human perspective, we wake up each morning and decide how we are going to successfully get to the end of the day – we just go about it rather differently from the birds and the beasts.

WE’VE BEEN on our travels again, the Doyenne and I. Last week I wrote about our holiday in Sutherland and we’re back now from a long weekend at the other end of the country.