Are you mad about dogs?

A Dorset dog lover has launched a new boarding service aimed at giving people who can’t have a dog full-time some canine company.

Ann Beveridge was a medical detection dog volunteer carer, and this gave her the idea of launching Barking Mad Dorset. The organisation provides a dog home boarding service, where customers’ dogs are placed with a host family while their two-legged companions are away. She said: “Ten years ago, I started volunteering for Barking Mad as a host dog sitter. I couldn’t commit to owning a dog at the time so having ‘friends’ to stay gave me a companion to care for, a purpose for a long country walk and lots of laughs and fun as I took care of many