I am delighted and very proud to announce that K9 Magazine was recognised by the Specialist Media Show with an award for our digital magazines innovation. I will write a more comprehensive report of the event – where I was also speaking – shortly, but wanted to put a couple of pictures on my blog [...]

Last year I took the plunge and invested in some .co domain names. .co is the country code for Columbia but there was a lot of hype around the extension with many people predicting a new domain name gold rush. For me I was just interested in acquiring a few domains that I knew I [...]

A new book claims man can take on some spectacularly successful life lessons from man's best friend. Ryan O'Meara, dog trainer and publisher of K9 Magazine claims in his new book 'Clever Dog: Life Lessons From Man's Best Friend' that thinking like a dog can improve our happiness, prosperity, friendships and decision making abilities. In [...]

Today the British Veterinary Association announced their disappointment at the EU decision NOT to make it compulsory for meat that has been slaughtered without being stunned to be appropriately labelled. I've discussed this issue with many people and I've found that, often, folks are completely unaware that it is possible, in the UK, for meat [...]

She’s such a sweetheart. Chloe and her happy face on an episode of Big Brother’s Little Brother with Dermot O’Leary

Very pleased to be involved with the launch of petbuzz, a new social media and marketing agency exclusively for the global pet industry. We (K9 Media) have been working on building the petbuzz infrastructure and syndication network for the best part of 10 years so it's really exciting to be rolling it out (gently) in [...]

I'm getting ready to launch a new coaching program for entrepreneuers all about how to start up and run their very own digital magazine publishing business.

There's only one business autobiography I've read (or to be more accurate, listened to) more than THREE times. It's Ted Turner's. I honestly had no expectations going in to that book. I knew who he was, but not much else. I genuinely felt inspired to just get on and do MORE. I always felt like [...]

Ohio’s 22-year-old dangerous-dog law defines a “vicious dog” to be one that has killed or seriously injured another person, has killed another dog, or belongs to a breed “commonly known as a pit bull dog.” A bad rap The United Kingdom, however, bans not only the “pit bull type,” but also the Dogo Argentina, the [...]

Despite being nearly mistaken for a ‘dog whisperer’ this was a positive piece of coverage regarding my views on the great status dog / dangerous dogs act debate on London’s LBC Radio.