St. Thomas Dog Blog

I just read some Facebook comments about our dog park.  They were posted over the past several months.  Most were complaints by parents about their children being told to behave themselves at the dog park.  They make me wonder whose park is it anyway?  I believe it’s the dogs’ park.  There are a lot of [...]

Last Monday, quite a few St. Thomas residents spent their Valentine’s Day evening in the public gallery of City Hall.  Lois Jackson was giving the first report of the recently struck Animal Welfare Advisory Committee to City Council You may remember the committee resulted from the St. Thomas Animal Control situation with two dogs in [...]

I got this email today from a supporter of All Breed Canine Rescue.   Another email was attached, from another supporter, with more details of a large litter of puppies that they took in two days ago, Feb. 7th.  I don’t think I can put it any better than these two people have. “Jesus, it is [...]

It was sled dogs that kept the Inuit alive by giving them the mobility to hunt across vast expanses of the Arctic.  It was sled dogs that kept stranded hunters alive by sharing with them the warmth of their bodies and fur.  Sometimes, an individual sled dog gave his or her life to provide meat [...]

A month ago, I met a new horse.  A pretty little quarter horse, Gem had a very heavy winter coat.  She also had large bare spots on her face and side.  She had just arrived at Brenda Hull’s Equine Rehabilitation farm in Southwold.  She had come from  somewhere in the London area. In December her [...]