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BtC4A: Kijiji Pet Sales and the CHS
It’s that time again! This quarter, I would like to bring attention to the latest development between the Calgary Humane Society and the online marketplace, Kijiji. Now, everyone should know by now...
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A Waiting Room Rant
This has been a long time coming, and it’s been a while since I really dusted off the Soapbox for its original purpose – a place for me to complain. Dear Other Patrons in the Veterinary Clinic Waiting...
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You’re welcome, Internet
I’m going to brush past the fact that I’ve been busy and away from Blogland for nearly a month and happily announce that I think I now have just what the internet has been missing all of these years....
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Excuses
I was going to write a blog post, but instead I… … had homework to do. … had to take Alma to dog class. … decided to watch Hemingway and Gellhorn. … had to clean the house, since the cleaner took a...
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Graduates
Back in the fall of 2008, Moses graduated from an awesome and intensive 10 week dog training class. As a first-time dog owner at the time, this program totally shaped the way I see dogs and our lives...
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Coyote Encounter: A True Story
It was Sunday evening. The clock read 8:00. Just as good a time as any to walk the dogs, I figured. And then I looked over at Moses. He sure was rocking the scruffy, homeless look. Kind of like a...
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No Respect
It’s been a weird summer for animal encounters. The approaching coyote was one thing, and even that has been followed with a couple less-interesting sightings and passings-by. But then I started...
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Did You Know: Calgary Has Leash Laws
Yesterday the hot topic in local news and social media was the story of a person walking his/her dogs off-leash in an on-leash area at Nose Hill Park: one of the dogs got caught in a toothless trap...
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Harlem Shake (Dog Edition)
Breaking my unexpected, unannounced, indeterminate blogging hiatus to bring you something pretty great. Have you been following the Harlem Shake YouTube trend? If not, watch this video to catch up...
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Monday Mischief, 9th edition
This post is part of the Mischief Monday blog hop – to see what everyone else has been up to, click here. Filed under: Monday Mischief
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My Audacity
Last week, Something Wagging This Way Comes wrote these two posts that really got me thinking: Why I Don’t Train My Dog Better and 5 Reasons Why I Train My Dog. Several months ago – maybe even years –...
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Monday Mischief, 12th edition
We’ve been assured that there wasn’t too much mischief had by Alma and Moses while we were on holidays, but here is what some of the dogs in Costa Rica were up to last week. This post is part of the...
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Free cats!
I don’t mean “free THE cats” – this isn’t a Braveheart situation. And I’m not about to go on some barely intelligible rant about the enslavement of companion animals because that would be ridiculous...
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I’m a Big Fat Hypocrite
Breaking News, Calgary, AB: I am not the Pope. I’m not even Catholic! And as such, I – like every other blogger on the end of a keyboard – am just a person. A normal, falliable human being who doesn’t...
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Moses & the Fractured Tooth
Lorde cuts her teeth on wedding rings in the movies; Moses cuts his on icy stairways and sidewalks. Unfortunately, for Moses it isn’t a metaphor or turn of phrase. It was 3:30am on Wednesday morning...
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Monday Mischief 20: Up – and Down – One Canine
The past few days, we saw both a loss, and a gain, in canine. The loss, was Moses’ canine. The x-ray showed the tooth should be removed. And removal then confirmed it – the tooh wasn’t super healthy,...
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“My dog doesn’t like to go on walks.”
“My dog doesn’t like to go on walks.” Ever have someone say that to you? I have. And obviously recently, or I wouldn’t be spurned to write about it. My response is usually one of two things: 1....
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Black & White Sunday 15: Greetings
The faces who welcome me home, all taken on different days. The Black & White Sunday bloghop is brought to you by Dachshund Nola and Sugar the Golden Retriever. Click to visit the hosts and check...
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I am well aware my dogs are not kids
Moses and Alma are not my “children”. They – and the cats – are not our “furbabies” and we are not using them as practice kids nor for exhibiting nesting behaviour (unless, perhaps, the nesting period...
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Dogs and Gender – Does it Matter?
When I’m out with Moses and we meet new people, they almost always correctly assume he’s a male dog. I can’t think of any instance whatsoever where someone thought Moses was a female dog. Even with his...
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