Rosie & Colin
Hi! I’m Rosie and this is Colin, my husband. We are at the hub of what Laid Back Dogs does. I’m the creative one, with ideas, plus many years of living and being with a variety of dogs and animals as…
Hagrid - a BIG part of our lives!
Hagrid joined us at the age of two and a half because Jaffa our delightful cavalier king Charles spaniel chose him out of all the mastiffs we visited. Here he is enjoying his first selfie. I’d say he…
Meet Pogo, an Important member of our team
Pogo was found roaming in Ireland and was a lovely little bag of wild energy when she came home with us from Border Collie Trust in Staffordshire https://www.bordercollietrustgb.org.uk/about-border-c…
Introducing Kuzu
Meet the adorable Kuzu. As I was looking for a BIG dog to join our family, a friend, Jean Gough, suggested I go to see this dog who had been taken from being put to sleep and into ‘Carla Lane animal…
Introducing Daisy
Daisy was a very energetic staffie x who came from a re-homing centre in the Midlands. Relationship for Daisy with dogs and people, especially children, had always been extremely difficult. She’d had…
Introducing Marilyn Aspinall
Marilyn is a dear friend and colleague. We’ve worked together for many years. I won’t say how many as it is just a number, so ‘they’ say. The important part is that Marilyn most generously contributed…
Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe has become a good friend since we began working on ‘the tale of a BIG dog’. Ann was instrumental in the middle stages of developing the book and more recently she is very kindly working with…
Meet Katey
Meet Katey, a much valued member of our team and my granddaughter. Katey has grown up around dogs and being aware of their communication. She is very much in tune with them. Our dogs flock round her…
This is Pusshy
Pusshy was found in a friends garden, underweight and eating the bird food. We were asked to take her on, and back then I took in most animals that needed a home, until I realised the importance of…
Here's Jam Jar Gill!
Gill is a Twin Mummy, Cat Parent, Wife, Podcaster, Eco-Influencer and Virtual Assistant based in Rural Bedfordshire. She loves all things eco, holistic and natural (wherever busy life and budget allow…
It's Ticky!
This is Tick the Cat in one of her favourite positions, glued to Colin. Tick’s quite old now, about 15. She had a hard start in life, but a lucky escape – some factory workers found a box sealed u…
Meet Jane and her dog Lana.
Meet Jane and her dog Lana. Jane looks after our dogs while we’re away and is essential for their wellbeing at that time. Her approach is unique which goes well with our ethos and what they need when…
Rosee from Austria
Rosee Riggs is a friend and colleague who lives in Austria. She kindly promotes my books through her work ‘Understanding the silent communication of dogs’ and ‘The tale of a BIG dog’, a book for dogs…
Stefan Dawson
Stef is our website guru and also did all the book layout work for The Tale of a Big Dog. After oozing 1s and 0s for over a decade in web design and coding, Stef turned his attention to content mar…
Meet Kaos
Kaos was a beautiful sensitive English Mastiff, my dream dog and the only dog I bought as a puppy. I loved her so much and so was enthusiastic to do everything as best as I could for her. First we wen…
Team Member - Gregg
A beautiful rescue cat found living near the bins behind a Greggs in Bradford. He’d been sprayed blue; the best guess was he was destined for dog baiting, and the rescue home picked him up just in tim…
Meet Noriko
Noriko Fujita (Japan) Noriko is the Japanese publisher for Understanding the Silent Communication of Dogs. “..I am a translator/interpreter and my dog’s mom, living in the suburbs of Tokyo. I was i…
Introducing Henry
Henry was an adorable and tolerant Clumber Spaniel who came from Clumber Rescue. Unfortunately for him I begun to think dogs needed to have quite a bit of exercise and that he would love to come run…
Meet Jaffa
What a sweet, adorable dog Jaffa was. She was sensitive and a strong character in an assertive, gentle and sensible way, where she could be, and when I listened. For most of Jaffa’s life she was under…
PLOT Publishing
PLOT Publishing – Prague, Czech Republic PLOT is the publisher of the Czech language version of Understanding the Silent Communication of Dogs, by… Rosie Lowryová and Marilyn Aspinallovou! The book…
Elise from Belgium
Elise writes: I have discovered Rosie’s first book back in 2015 and loved it. I had the opportunity to translate it into French … and what an incredible journey! The French edition has bee…
This is Fang En Tsai
Fang En Tsai, from Taiwan, worked on the publishing of Understand the Silent Communication of Dogs in Chinese. She writes: “I am currently fostering rescued dogs and translating brief works. Most o…