Going to Italy for all the wrong reasons

The saga of the spluttering hound who deserves the world

Between £6000 and £9000. This is what I was quoted by an Edinburgh vet to remove the airgun pellet which is lodged in my dog’s neck. Of course, there’s all kinds of angry that this makes me.

Firstly, there’s the issue of how the hell it got there in the first place. It only came to light after Alfie’s slight cough became progressively worse, warranting n…