Tippi is one happy little girl now that she has the free-running fun and exercise that every dog needs and deserves, even the tiniest, even the oldest. She is also free of the pain from her rotten teeth. And she has a dog-pack as well as a human family. All dogs need and deserve both.

Look at the fun she is having running up and down the beach with her pals. She can also keep up with everyone up the mountain for two hours. Too many dogs, especially little dogs, only get short leash walks around the neighbourhood, the same walk, over and over, their necks in a noose. What fun or exercise is that? Or they are "played with" in a back yard.

Dogs are so grateful for any fun or attention so they act thrilled when they are tethered and taken round the same old block, but it is not right to do that to them just because they don't know there is anything better. As their guardians it is up to us to know better and to do better for them.