St. Thomas Dog Blog

The Elgin County Kennel Club wants to come home to Elgin for its annual dog show.  It would be nice to have it here in St. Thomas.  I’d probably go all three days if it were. I spent last Saturday at it.  Petted lots of dogs, took lots of pictures.  Met a magnificent three-year old [...]

If you are thinking about spaying or neutering your dogs or cats, it’s worth your while to give Beaver Creek Animal Hospital a call.  January 16th to 31st is “Spay/Neuter Awareness” days there.  The phone number is 519-637-0966. This weekend, January 20-22, is the Elgin Kennel Club dog show at the Western Fairgrounds in London [...]

Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter is a wonderful book.  Written by Elizabeth Hess, a New York City arts journalist and author of Nim Chimpsky, it details her experiences as a volunteer at the Columbia-Greene Animal Shelter near Hudson, New York.  She and her family were among the [...]

This is Leo after he walked for just a second into a patch of burs.  They didn’t just stick to his hair, they burrowed right in his face, chest and ears.  I picked off as many as I could right away.  He had so many burs his ears stuck to the top of his head. [...]