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Killing them with kindness

by frogdogz on July 10, 2011 in Daily Life with 13 Comments
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Imagine you have an overcrowded animal shelter. Some media attention and publicity could probably help with that, right?

In a nice twist of fate,  let’s say that your local television station agrees to come down to your shelter to help you publicize the fact that you’re overcrowded.

If you’re that shelter, do you:

a) use the media time to try and show off some of your adoptable pets

-or-

b) Kill an animal on live television, and then tell the public it’s ‘their fault’ you had to kill him.

If you picked B, you must work for Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, who just did exactly that live on ABC Affiliate KVIA.

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Microchip Brings Dog Home from BC to Montreal

by frogdogz on July 8, 2011 in Daily Life with 3 Comments
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Pollux the dog somehow traveled from Montreal, Quebec to Kamloops, BC – a journey of almost 4,245 kilometres or 2,637 miles
I never cease to be amazed at some of the journeys our pets can make, all on their own. I also never cease to be amazed at how effective microchips can be at bringing back our lost or stolen pets. 

This story definitely falls into the ‘amazing’ category.

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Happy Birthday, Nicole (and Happy 4th of July too)

by frogdogz on July 4, 2011 in Daily Life, French Bulldog Stuff with 3 Comments
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Hard to believe, but my little girl is 27 today – and that also means that this photo was taken 21 years ago, which explains the blurriness. The bad lighting is all on me.

Happy Birthday, Nicole – thanks for putting up with me as your mom, and with my dog craziness, for almost your entire life! Love you!

 

Happy Canada Day!

by frogdogz on July 1, 2011 in Daily Life with 1 Comment
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It’s a little known fact, but by law, all Canadians must choose a favorite Tragically Hip song at age fourteen, or their citizenship is revoked.

This one happens to be mine.

We won’t be spending Canada Day in Bobcaygeon – we’ll be in Collingwood, instead, but this song evokes a true sense of Canadian summer for me.

If you ever come to visit us here, at the lower end of the Bruce Peninsula, in an area I sometimes (only half jokingly) refer to as “Two Miles east of the middle of nowhere”, you truly will get a chance to see the constellations reveal themselves, one star at a time.

Video after the cut.

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