St. Thomas Dog Blog

This is Spencer Quinn’s first in a mystery novel series featuring Chet (dog) and Bernie (human).  Set in the US Southwest, the story is told by Chet from his point of view.  Chet flunked out of K-9 police school and Bernie is barely scraping by as a private detective.  Bernie and Chet work together as [...]

Walking dogs around many St. Thomas ‘green spaces’ has given me a perspective on attitudes to them.  I remember going up by the then-new ball park on north Burwell Road.  It was when the city first put up “no dogs running on ball field” signs.  So we didn’t go on the ball field.  Instead, we [...]

1991 Atlantic Monthly Press (hb), 1993 Avon (pb) A mystery novel by Sue Henry.  It’s good.  Several murders – at first I thought she just wanted to use all the ways she’d thought of for murder in a dogteam race.  But actually all the murders are necessary for the plot line.  They’re inventive and the [...]

Sometimes people astound me – in a good way. Last week in Pet Valu, I heard a remarkable thing.  I went in to empty the Caring Pet Cupboard donation bin.  The store lady said, “people brought all that in. Oh, those cans are from here.  A lady who feeds wild cats in Fingal dropped them [...]