St. Thomas Dog Blog

Pawlooza last Saturday was great.  So many people and dogs!  Other than a bit of a walk-around, I hardly saw anything of it other than our booth in Rescue Row.  But the world comes by one’s booth, I found. We didn’t take Leo and Charlie.  Charlie likes a party, but gets bored and cranky after [...]

Finally saw the TVO documentary Cat Ladies <img src=”http://wms.assoc-amazon.ca/20070822/CA/img/noscript.gif?tag=dorotstewa-20″ alt=”” /><br />and it’s well worth watching.  What struck me was the ambivalence that all four women felt about what they were doing.  They love cats and enjoy looking after them and they don’t like seeing animals suffer. But they do not want as many cats as they [...]

STDOA is going to be at Pawlooza.  August 20th, from 10 to 6, at Steve Plunkett’s Fleetwood Farm on Elviage Road, near Westdel Bourne in west London.  Parking cost is $10 per carload of people and dogs.  It’s a huge dog party organized by ARF Ontario (Animal Rescue Foundation) in London.  Hundreds of vendors of [...]

When Waterworks Wally got his shots last week, he had tests I’d never heard of before. He was tested for FIV (cat AIDS) and feline leukemia (FeLV). His vet said FIV is “a disease of foes,” transmitted by blood exchange usually through fighting. Leukemia is “a disease of friends,” transmitted by saliva shared by grooming [...]