‘We have five in our bed – any more and I wouldn’t sleep!’: meet the extreme dog owners

‘We have five in our bed – any more and I wouldn’t sleep!’: meet the extreme dog owners

Rachel and Andrew live with 19 of them, Julie never goes to the toilet without one, and Chloé’s take her socks off for her. Meet the pet lovers whose canine companions take the lead

Growing up in West Yorkshire, Dylan Collard dreamed of having a dog – all the while surrounded by cats. Then he absconded from his feline-dominated family home to London to pursue photography, a job that took him on sporadic assignments around the world. A dog just didn’t fit in.

That was before a little, one-eyed – and very full-on – border terrier called Amos came along. “My partner finally talked me around, but I said that if we were going to have a dog, he had to be the best-trained. I had quite high expectations,” he says.

All photgraphs by Dylan Collard

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