St. Thomas Dog Blog

I supported a puppy mill.  Not intentionally or directly, but I contributed to the financial well-being of one.  My Standard Poodle Leo had spent five years in a US puppy mill as a breeding dog.  His adoption fee from All Breed Canine Rescue was $100 higher than the usual because the original rescue group in [...]

I used to keep chickens.  Mainly bantams who produce lovely little eggs.  They also are very broody, meaning they will easily sit on eggs in order to hatch them.  When you have chicks, it’s 50/50 whether you get hens or roosters.  Any chicken coop can only handle so many roosters, I found.  They get along [...]

My knowledge of birds is minimal.  There’s brown ones, speckled brown ones, starlings, other big black ones, robins, doves, cardinals and jays.  We have all of these in our backyard and I’ve got to know some of them and their little birds sounds.  My husband feeds them and last year he moved the feeding platform [...]