This is a photograph of my first real home in Switzerland and where many of my puppies were born.

How the dogs loved the snow! Their coats were always at their best during a hard winter. When one of my bitches had a litter of puppies and there was a lot of snow, I had to shovel a path into the garden from the house for them and flatten the snow so they wouldn't sink into it.

I would watch over them until they started to tire from their energetic playing then towel them dry and bring them back into the house. I've always had the dogs and puppies in the house with me. I suppose you could say that "I live with my dogs" rather than "my dogs live with me."

Finally, this is a photograph of my last home in Switzerland before I moved to the UK.