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Pet theories – Sarah Harding and Mark Foster

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Sarah Harding moved to the Buckinghamshire countryside six years ago together with her two Persian cats. “I’d always wanted to have a dog but in London it was really difficult,” says the former member of Girls Aloud, who’s currently working on a solo album. “So when I moved out here, I thought, right, let’s get one.”

Claude, a French bulldog, duly arrived, later to be followed by Pickles, a female. “And without my permission, they multiplied,” Harding laughs. The result was Yogi and Boo-Boo. The latter now lives with one of Harding’s relatives, but Yogi remains.

“I just love French bulldogs,” she says. “They’re not too big to take around with you and they’re not so small that they look twee. I’m not into handbag dogs. They’re really smart and they’re great companions.”

The most recent arrival at Harding’s home has been her partner, Mark Foster, a top dog in the music production world. And when he came up with an idea for an exclusive range of headwear for women based around snapback caps, beanies and trapper caps, a certain French bulldog puppy’s face seemed to be the perfect logo.

Only 250 of each Yogi Snap design are manufactured and ten per cent of each sale is donated to Pup Aid, a charity that campaigns against puppy farming. Foster says sales are going well and puts that partly down to the fact that he believes people can relate to French bulldogs. “I don’t know how successful Yogi Snap would be if we had, like, a Jack Russell on the front,” he says.

Jack Russell fans, please don’t write to us. Address your letters to Mark Foster, care of Yogi Snap…

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