Welcome to the pack
I’m Angela, creator of a few other recipes websites such as Easy Mug Cake Recipes and Another Rum Punch. After years of creating delicious healthy recipes for humans, I’m now channeling my baking superpowers for my beloved pets.
We have travelled a lot with our pack since 2013 and are currently living in the beautiful island of St Lucia. Where we go, our animals go
The Taste Testers
All my dogs and cats are rescues from various islands in the Caribbean, with 2 cats being from the UK.
Pixie
Pixie is our smallest dog and our first rescue. I popped into the Ark Animal Shelter in Barbados one Saturday afternoon, just to “have a look”. I went home, told my husband that I had met an adorable puppy. Within an hour we were having a house visit and she was ours!
She is the most vocal of the pack and has been ever since she was a puppy. She barks into the distance at times too for other dogs. I like to think she is spreading the daily island news!
She does not like my watermelon or raw vegetable treats but enjoys the meaty treats.
Sasha
Sasha was the result of me looking at the Facebook page for the Ark Animal Shelter in Barbados, then showing my husband her photo. Within the hour, we had messaged the Shelter and said we would take her, subject to Pixie accepting her.
She is the greediest dog we have. She is greedy on a Labrador scale! If I go to the kitchen, she will sprint ahead of me in hope of a treat. It never works, but I admire her determination!
Sasha is also our huntress. She has the sweetest disposition but is quick to hunt anything that enters our garden. I have had to rescue a few iguanas from her when we lived in Aruba which still haunts me.
She eats everything except cucumber!
Teddy (aka Bear)
Teddy is my foster fail in Aruba. We were meant to be fostering him for a few weeks but after the first week, we said we would adopt him as we could not imagine being without him. You can read the first week of our Fostering HERE
He has grown from a few days away from death to be a strong, beautiful boy with such a loving nature. He is my constant companion and is my loyal guardian, always by my side.Teddy is a natural guard dog and guards our perimeter with gusto at any passing vehicle.
The most delightful thing about Teddy is his various voices! He has a high pitched yip when he is demanding something, a tiger like growl when on the defensive and a happy bark when playing. He is a very vocal dog and expressive with his bear like paws!
He loves everything I have given him except for cucumber.
Rocco
Rocco is our rescue from St Lucia. I had seen his photo posted by a friend who owns an art café in St Lucia. Her son had rescued him from a litter born on a beach and he was the only survivor.
He has the sweetest disposition and makes a great male playmate for Teddy. He has sealed the balance in our furry family and gives the best cuddles too!
Muffin
Muffin is a thick coated black British cat with a sweet affectionate nature, coming for morning cuddles before we get up. She and Tux are the most travelled being with us from our departure from the UK to the Caribbean.
She is a climber and can often be found on our roof in the mornings before the sun gets too hot. She delights in the many lizards we have here and is a natural hunter.
Tux
Tux is “imaginatively” named as he is a Tuxedo cat in markings. Tux is our biggest cat at 18lbs and cat carriers are too small for him. He has travelled around the Caribbean in a small dog carrier instead.
Tux is devoted to Muffin and is by her side for the most part of the day. I swear she tires of it and occasionally seeks us out to escape him.
After a few years of being an indoor cat (various places we lived were not safe for cats, traffic, monkeys, stray dogs…the usual island threats) we now live in a very safe place and he has blossomed in his territory and being an outside cat.
Gingey (Manley)
He chose me. When we lived in Barbados, there was a skinny ginger cat eating out of the nearby bins, so I started to come out every morning with cat food for him. He then appeared everyday at a certain time and we built a bond. We were moving houses and the husband agreed to capture him, get him to the vets for the necessary inspection and snip, and give him a loving home.
We named him Manley after a ginger cat we knew in the UK who was full of personality. I now call him Gingey, so he has 2 names.
Much like Teddy, this ball of ginger goodness is often found by my side. He has perfected certain purrs and squeaks to get what he wants from me. Basically, he has me wrapped around his ginger paw.
