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The Numbers are in for Year 2 of Homeward Bound Pound
Published on 2012-05-22 19:47:00
For the 2nd year I paid my $5 and applied for a freedom of information request to the HRM to inquire about intake and euthansia statistics at our municipally (tax payer) funded pound where animals that are impounded by HRM Animal Control are sheltered by the private company "Homeward Bound" pound. And for the 2nd year the numbers they give out are pretty interesting. The questions I asked were > read more
Stuff to do coming up
Published on 2012-05-18 21:02:00
There's quite a few dog events coming up - so I thought I'd do one of my posts outlining a few of them. First up is that the Great Dane's of Nova Scotia group are having a walk at Point Pleasant Park on Monday morning at 11am - they haven't figured out yet where they're actually meeting up yet at the park - so you'll have to go to their facebook page to check out where the meet up spot will be - > read more
A few new photos
Published on 2012-05-13 20:00:00
I know I haven't posted much in the last little while - but the dogs continue to be as startlingly beautiful as ever Bubby for some reason likes to lay on his back like a baby on my lap and have his belly scratched - I think it's pretty cute And I of course like to take pictures of him while he's in this position This is Sidney sort of hanging upside down while he's wrestling with Bubby > read more
Bark & Fitz has some great dog groomers!
Published on 2012-05-08 16:43:00
I've been struggling for the last couple years to find a good groomer - one that isn't all the way over in Cole Harbour, and one that answers their phone, and one that actually gives a good hair cut. And I think I've finally find found one - I took both Bubby and Sidney to one of Bark & Fitz's groomers on the weekend - her name is Kim - and she was super! The above picture is their before > read more
Nature's Harvest Natural "Gently Cooked" Dog Food
Published on 2012-04-27 20:20:00
A little while ago a respresentative from Global Pet Foods asked me if I was interested in trying out a new food they were carrying - "Nature's Harvest Natural Gently Cooked Dog Food" - and I said "SURE!" - I never turn down anything that's free and sounds interesting. It was also a good time to try something new because I had willing young participants in the house and I've been trying out > read more
The 3 best little dogs ever
Published on 2012-04-15 19:06:00
135th Annual AGM for Nova Scotia SPCA - April 14th, 2011
Published on 2012-04-15 09:27:00
Yesterday was the 135th AGM for the Nova Scotia SPCA - I've been going to these AGM's since 2006 - and have been writing them up on this blog. I just went and read through all of them - and it's pretty interesting reading (in my humble opinion!) There is definitely a progession through the years - in 2006 Lisa Murphy is voting in as president, and hopes are high that things are going to go well > read more
OT: Bully the Movie and the movement
Published on 2012-04-11 20:43:00
I remember very little of my childhood and teen years - I have blocked almost all of it out. It was very unpleasant for me in several ways - and one of those ways was the fact that I was bullied really badly where I grew up in Amherst Nova Scotia. It probably started when I was 9 or 10 and didn't end until I graduated from high school and left for university in Halifax. Back then - in the 1970 > read more
Video so cute you want to tear their faces off
Published on 2012-04-01 17:56:00
I took some video today of Sidney and Bubby playing - it's pretty cute - they are a very good looking couple of dogs when they are together. If you'll notice - Sidney is tucked into my side as he's playing with Bubby - Bubby has become a humping machine - so Sidney takes refuge next to me when they are doing serious wrestling so that the humping isn't an issue - he is such a cute little guy. If > read more
Comments on MacLeans article "When did Crating your dog become a crime"
Published on 2012-03-27 19:47:00
MacLeans Magazine currently has a contentious article about current dog culture and takes on the subject of whether it's okay to crate your dog, and that maybe - chaining your dog isn't as abhorrent as we've been led to think it is. To have an article like this in the year 2012 in a major Canadian magazine as far as I'm concerned is personally disgusting - and the author quotes advocates within > read more
Be careful where you get your dog licences from
Published on 2012-03-25 16:52:00
Last March I was contacted by a lady who had gotten her dog licence from the SPCA when she adopted her dog from there - and 4 months later she lost her dogs tags and contacted the HRM to get a replacement tag. The HRM had no record of her dog's licence - the SPCA paperwork hadn't been forwarded to the city and/or the city hadn't yet inputted the data into their database and therefore she coudn't > read more
TICKS!
Published on 2012-03-22 15:53:00
Sidney was being fostered in Lunenburg County - which I have subsequently found out is loaded down with ticks - and since I got him on Sunday I have pulled these 3 ticks off him. Poor Sidney - I hope he doesn't get lyme disease. His foster Dad had lyme disease last year - so the ticks on their property do carry lyme disease - whenever I pull a tick off the dog I always send them in to the > read more
Introducing Sidney!
Published on 2012-03-21 16:38:00
Here is the newest addition to the Dogkisser family - Sidney - he's a littermate of Bubby He came from the same puppy mill in Cape Breton as Bubby and suffered the same fate - was bought from the puppy mill until he was 6 months old so therefore isn't socialized to humans at all - and he has the added problem of having skin problems 343 Judging by his vet records though - he had a horrible vet > read more
Public talk hosted by Director/Founder of the Farm Sanctuary
Published on 2012-03-17 20:00:00
The Founder and Director of the Farm Sanctuary, Gene Baur,is giving a a public talk as part of his North American tour on March 20 at 6 pm in the Ondaatje Hall, Marion McCain Arts & Social Sciences Building. The title of the talk is “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food” I'm probably like a lot of people and having been receiving emails from the Farm Sanctuary just > read more
When does barking become a nuisance?
Published on 2012-03-09 20:48:00
I'm being hassled by my neighbours - it's more than hassled - I'm being harassed by my neighbours - and I've told them that - and I've threatened them that if they don't leave me alone I'm going to call the police. For some reason they have a zero tolerance for any kind of noise - last summer they called police several times on the house next to me when they had parties in their back yard - > read more
Do you know a rescuer who deserves a Spa Day of Pampering?
Published on 2012-03-08 18:48:00
Global Pets, with Hill’s Science Diet are inviting Canadians to nominate outstanding animal shelter and rescue volunteers for the first Heroic Heart Pet Service Award. Nominations can be made at your local Global Pet Foods store or online through Facebook.com/GlobalPetFoods starting March 1st! Nominations will close March 31 and a panel of judges will review all nominees’ Heroic Heart stories. > read more
PET Projects looking for help with Survey
Published on 2012-02-15 19:38:00
PET Projects down in Shelburne are working hard to get anti-tethering legislation onto the agenda at their municipal level as well as the provincial level. I think that's fabulous. They've set up a survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LCFZ893 that they want people to go and fill out to give hard statistics to the bureaucrats they're talking to - so take a minute and go fill out the survey. > read more
A Pekinese has won best in show at Westminster in 2012
Published on 2012-02-15 19:16:00
So once again a pekinese - "Ch Palacegarden Malachy" a.k.a. "Malachy" - has won best in show at Westminster - which says to me that breed clubs really are just interested in looks and breed standards and the perfection of an animal as it's written in a standard and not necessarily anything that's got to do with dogs living in homes and having happy, healthy, lives. I couldn't imagine having a > read more
Fun Stuff to do coming up
Published on 2012-01-26 18:08:00
There's quite a few fun things to do coming up - so I thought I'd point them out - Here's a first (that I've heard of) locally, that I have always thought was a good idea - Yoga with your dog! Yay! A Yoga instructor who does stuff with local lab rescue has started a "DOGA" class - we've missed the first class - but you can do a drop in for the remaining classes - which are being held at the > read more