St. Thomas Dog Blog

I was in Beaver Creek Animal Hospital about a week ago.  There was a beautiful young black Lab waiting to see the doctor.  His tail swished every time anyone walked past him.  He licked my hand when I patted him, then he licked my face when I got down to play with him.   He [...]

Frank Moore, a farmer north of Belmont who my parents knew, always had lots of barn cats.  He said one year, years before, there had been an explosion of cats – so many that all the farms were overrun.  That year he, like the other farmers, got rid of many of them.  “The next couple [...]

The Elgin Kennel Club dog show this weekend was great.  So many beautiful dogs.  I took a gazillion pictures and petted a gazillion dogs.  So did everybody else there, at least the audience.  The handlers had other things on their minds, so did the dogs.  Although some of them still found time to act silly [...]

The Elgin Kennel Club dog show is coming up soon.  January 21st to 23rd at the Progress Building at the Western Fair Grounds.  It’s fun.  A chance to see so many different kinds of beautiful dogs, and a chance to learn something about each breed as you watch them go through their paces.  Watch long [...]

Jamie hated baths, indeed Jamie hated water.  He was a Collie mixed with something, clearly not a water dog.  He had long Collie hair with a thick undercoat.  He had long fluffy hair on his feet, legs and backside.  He’d get knotted and matted.  Jamie also hated being brushed. Every so often, when we’d screw [...]