St. Thomas Dog Blog

Charlie and Leo got new outfits this Hallowe’en, in honour of the STDOA-ABCR walkathon Saturday.  They liked them, well, Leo liked his.  Charlie?  You can judge for yourself. It was a windy day – sunny, windy, bone-chilling.  Leo’s hat didn’t stay on.  Other dogs had their boas and hats blow off.  Still, they pranced and [...]

I don’t know if it’s done anymore, but some kids used to collect for Unicef when they were out trick-or-treating on Hallowe’en.  It was a good thing, I thought, showing them and the households they went to that it doesn’t have to be all about “give me something”.  It can be “give something to all [...]

We went to see Secretariat Thanksgiving weekend at the Elgin Mall theatre.   If you’ve seen it or haven’t yet, and want to read what I thought of it, go to my site at dorothystewart.net – I don’t think there’s any spoilers.  Although we all know what happened!

It’s very hard to buy products that are not tested on animals or made by companies that test on animals in at least some of their product lines.  In this, I am not talking about government-mandated animal testing on pharmaceuticals and medical products.  I’m talking about cosmetics, hair products and household cleaning products.  I knew [...]

Well, Bear and Bosco, the recently dumped dogs, didn’t actually go to this past Monday’s City Council meeting but their presence was felt.   St. Thomas has pledged to look at the operations of the City Animal Shelter and make it more “user-friendly” for the animals and the people who need its services.  There has [...]

The Dalewood dog is found and at the City animal shelter.  His name is Bear.  His  is a story more of sadness and desperation than thoughtless cruelty.  It sounds like a desperate man took what he thought were his only options.  For whatever reason, he had to be ‘dogless’ by the next morning (moving? an [...]