G'day from New Zealand on Waitangi Day - a public holiday over here.

Exciting day today - I'm filming a series of short TV programmes all about how to introduce a new puppy to the home which should go out later this year at primetime. It's been a challenge to condense all the information I can give into one minute chunks but I think I've succeeded. I am filming with the team that for years has done a show here called "Wonderdogs", as well as working with Mum on "The Dog Listener Down Under" which is still running on Animal Planet. I intend for these shows to appear later on the website so fingers crossed I don't fluff my lines!

Next stop is Christchurch in the South Island for a talk on 15th so it's goodbye to Auckland for the moment and hello road trip! I have been told about a statue down there in Mackenzie country to commemorate a dog that was executed for sheep stealing - more about that if I find it, but apparently it's a famous (if grisly) story over here. On the way I have been invited to talk to the police dog handlers of Hastings on the East Coast so more about that later too.  Cheers, Tony

Above: I'm with the lovely 'Little Kate' near Cape Kidnappers, NZ