St. Thomas Dog Blog

Tues, November 29th 7 p.m. Elgin Mall Community Room – mark it on your calendars.  It’s the STDOA final meeting of 2011 and time for planning. This fall, we joined with other animal welfare groups to form the Elgin Animal Coalition to better care for pets and unwanted or injured animals.  The Coalition is comprised [...]

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 [...]

It started with an email I received.  You may have also got it, it’s making the rounds.  A woman turned a jet into a house for only $30,000.  It’s astounding, as is where it’s situated.  I thought, well, you might luck out on beautiful wood and fixtures at the scrap yard.  And just because you [...]

Revenue Canada is planning changes that will affect the charitable status eligibility and actions of animal welfare organizations.  I have only just read about this so am borrowing liberally just to get something up.  The deadline for commenting on these changes is March 31 – that’s Thursday. So here it is in a nutshell from [...]

It’s been a good week in St. Thomas for happy endings to harrowing animal tales.  First was a stranded Canada Goose in a city park.  Kathi Baslaugh fed the apparently injured goose she named Sweetie for several weeks.  When I first read about it in the Times-Journal, I realized I had seen her and Sweetie [...]

My knowledge of birds is minimal.  There’s brown ones, speckled brown ones, starlings, other big black ones, robins, doves, cardinals and jays.  We have all of these in our backyard and I’ve got to know some of them and their little birds sounds.  My husband feeds them and last year he moved the feeding platform [...]