St. Thomas Dog Blog

I’m launching my own membership drive for STDOA.  We need members and membership dollars.  It’s only $20 a year per household of people and dogs.  A downloadable form is at stdoa.ca. So far this year even more people and dogs, many of them new, are going to the dog park. It’s quite possible that people, [...]

The Wolf in the Parlor:  How the dog came to share your brain by Jon Franklin, 2009 (hardback) Henry Holt & Co., 2010 (paperback) St. Martin’s Griffin. It took me a few months to read this book.  It was my ‘morning coffee’ book.  Those always are read slowly.  But I had trouble with this one.  [...]

This week I’ve been sent two Facebook requests to boycott the film Water for Elephants.  According to ADI (Animal Defenders International), Have Trunk Will Travel, providers of the elephants in the film, use abusive methods.  This contradicts the trainers’ statement that they only use positive reinforcement. I watched the 2005 video ADI provided, and I [...]

This coming Saturday, May 7th, there’s another Royal event.  The Run for the Roses, the first leg of the Triple Crown.  The 137th running of the Kentucky Derby.  The young royals of mainly North American horses will be there.  Both connections and horses have the dream of winning it and of going on to win [...]