St. Thomas Dog Blog

To the person who dumped a grey tiger and white male neutered cat at Waterworks Parks on or before July 4, 2011: He’s doing well, considering.  He misses you and his own bed and routine.  He spends a lot of time in the garage.  It’s where he feels safest, I guess.  It was where he [...]

Project Nim is a new film by James Marsh about Nim Chimpsky, the chimp who was raised from infancy as a human in order to explore the learning of language in non-human primates.  The film is based on the book by Elizabeth Hess, Nim Chimpsky:  The chimp who would be human.  CBC Radio’s Q interviewed [...]

A 1916 play Trifles was written by American journalist Susan Glaspell.  It is a murder mystery based on a real event in Iowa at the turn of the century.  A man is found strangled.  The sheriff and a neighbour man search the house, barn and outbuildings, can’t find anything.  Their wives are there too.  They [...]

So William and Kate opened the Calgary Stampede and attended the parade.  William even took part in a chuckwagon race.  I’d been wondering what they’d do.  Before their visit, there had been a huge furor about their endorsement-by-attendance at what some call an event about animal abuse. My feeling at the time was doesn’t Vancouver [...]

A dreadful heart disease can afflict dogs, especially Dobermans, Boxers, Wolfhounds, Golden Retrievers and other large breeds.  Some small breeds seem to be disproportionately affected too, the Cocker Spaniel being one. Dilated Cardiomyopathy is essentially congestive heart failure and it can take two forms.  One is likely to cause a massive heart attack in the [...]