Category: Local Advice

Pukekohe has plenty of green space, but most of it is on-lead. The places where a dog can actually run are fewer, and they are not always the parks people assume. This is where you can let your dog off in and around town, the on-lead walks worth knowing, and the rules that catch people […]

The weeks after a puppy comes home go quickly, and they matter more than any other stretch of a dog’s life. What a puppy learns to accept between roughly 8 and 16 weeks tends to stick, and so do the things it learns to be wary of. None of it needs to be complicated, but […]

Car maintenance would be easy if everything happened at once. It does not. A warrant runs on one clock, a service on another, and a cambelt on a third that most people forget about entirely until it is expensive. Here is what runs on what, and roughly when to expect it. Warrants: check the rule […]

Buy an Audi, a BMW or a Land Rover in Franklin and the same question turns up around the first service. The nearest franchise dealer is a drive up the motorway, the booking is weeks out, and there is a workshop fifteen minutes away that says it does European cars. The worry is always the […]