RIVIERA DOGS

Here's another dog I met at the Arabian Horse Show in Menton - and an unusual one. This dapper little Chinese Crested is called Igor. ...

Salukis go with Arabian horses - you often see them at the fabulous Arabian Horse Show in Menton and so it was the other day. These have bea...

It nearly two and a half month since Fanny was dumped, tied up outside my gate. (click to see how she was then) Since then she's had an...

Meet Kisha. She lives in Mandelieu, which is along the coast a bit. Kisha is 7 years old and looks a bit like a Briard gone wrong, but in ...

This lovely old Peke was sitting near his owner in Menton. She's an English lady who is part of a group demonstrating old crafts - her s...

Baci is tiny, adorable and 13 years old - his name means 'kisses' in Italian. He's also a jet-set dog who flies regularly betwe...

I did a double-take when this beautiful hound walked towards me on market day in Menton. She looks like a small version of my Beau, who is ...

Pippa and Cassie are 12 year old Beauceron sisters who perhaps look fierce but are the gentlest creatures you can imagine. Just look at thei...

This little dog looks as if she should be the cute and clever mutt in a television advertisement... Her lead was fixed to one of the stands ...

Perle wasn't at all sure about me, as you can see in the last photo (the one I took first) but she soon settled down and behaved like an...

Ming Tchoko knows he's goodlooking, doesn't he? He has a certain swagger about him even though he's only 11 months old. Ming T...

Chelsea would lie in the sun all day, given the chance and screw her eyes up against it, as you see. She lives in Monaco with her buddy, Tob...

Today we have TWO French bulldogs for your delectation. First, meet Gerome who is a two year old French bulldog from Milan. We met in Menton...

Lizzy lives in Nice and is as adorable - and naughty - as you'd expect a 7 month old puppy to be. In the photo below, Lizzy is playing w...

This is Pipouille, who is half Jack Russell terrier and half Papillon. We met on the Promenade le Corbusier in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. He ...

This gorgeous bulldog is called Bryon (Lord Bryon to be precise...) He's 5 years old and lives in Menton but on the day we met he was o...

Not hard to see how bright the sun was in Ventimiglia (just across the Italian border) yesterday. This is a very old Yorkie - 15 and a hal...

This is Baki - a beautiful four and a half year old Labrador who lives in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. I met him on the Promenade le Corbusier w...

Lucy is a nine and a half year old Husky/Border Collie mix who was rescued from the Ventimiglia refuge, across the border in Italy. She now...

Don't you just love this adorable Yorkie in her travelling bag fixed on top of a motorbike - quite unperturbed by all the traffic and me...