Wag the Dog

The DLCC is offering a Canine First Aid Course in Wahnapitae, Ontario on Tuesday April 22nd.
Where: Wahnapitae Community Center ( 161 Glenbower)
( behind baseball field ) Wahnapitae
When: Tues April 22/08 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Please see the attachment for details. Please pass along the information to anyone you think may be interested.

John Stewart has a post on his blog Random Access.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
Ward 6 Councillor Carolyn Parrish finally got her hands on the City's standard operating procedure for its animal control shelter this week. Now she thinks she knows why some officials seemed so reluctant to part with it.Parrish is incensed [...]

Canine First Aid
 

 
Want to Learn About Basic Canine First Aid?
Dog owners consider their dogs to be their best friends, members of their family and lifelong companions. There is a tremendous need for training in canine first aid and care because unfortunately, thousands of dogs are injured every year from preventable accidents! Dog owners would do [...]

Carolyn Parrish, along with two of our own joined a panel discussion on Rogers Cable this week.
The panel discussion topic was about Rambo's case, but the facts were flying to the fact starved masses in Mississauga this week.
Here is the link to the streaming video. Unfortunately this was only a clip from the hour long [...]

Caveat posted an article about David Zimmer receiving an award from WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals).

In December, the AR group WSPA gave the Ontario Liberals an award for their commitment to animal welfare! Zimmer, who was Bryant's right hand man during the enactment of Bill 132 received the award. This award [...]

You have got to see this!
Where will BIFF strike next? Keep your eyes peeled…

I was going through some archived posts at Caveat and found these cartoons. Click on the highlighted links to link to the cartoons. I thought you would enjoy a chuckle too..

For those of you who know me, you know I am not into mushy stuff, but when it comes to sarcasm I'm at the front of the line.
This article in the UK K-9 Magazine was posted by a friend of mine and caught my eye.
I think those of us here in Ontariostan and many [...]

It looks like Rambo is stuck in jail until at least May according to the Mississauga News.
Gabriela Nowakowska's lawyer, Anik Morrow, has presented an interesting angle on the fight for Rambo's life. Here is an excerpt from the article in the Mississauga News…
“The person charged is Nowakowska, but the item seized is the dog,” [...]

Calgary and comprehensive, effective animal bylaws belong in the same sentence. We have been shouting from the rooftops about the Calgary model for years now. 
The city of Calgary now has statistics posted on their website.  The stats are in graph form and very easy to read.
The proof is in the pudding. For those who can't [...]

The New York Times interviewed both PETA and Best Friends Animal Society (a sanctuary in Utah which took a number of Michael Vick's dogs).
An excerpt from the article; quotes both sides:
Ingrid Newkirk, the founder and chief executive of PETA, called Best Friends “an expensive Camelot.”
“These are celebrity dogs,” she said this week in [...]

The Ottawa Sun had an article title this weekend stating;
Quebec pit bull dumping ground Ontario laws turn la belle province into dog pound of last resort
In an excerpt;
“Ever since the breed-specific legislation came down (in 2005), Quebec right away had this huge influx of pit bulls and pit bull mixes,” said Ashley Adam, who [...]

In light of cases in and around this great province of Ontariostan, a friend sent me a link to some advice for dog owners/breeders who may have an animal control officer at their door.
Here is the complete text. The link to the page is above, just click on link. This advice is from the [...]

The Toronto Sun had a pathetic article today. Lassie Get Help, a well worth the read blog, has a good article in response to the Sun article.
The second article in The Toronto Sun was better. The girls from the “Pit Bull Co-op” had some good comments.
Gotta wonder at the timing of such an [...]

Here is an excerpt from Social Mange blog:
The owners of Munchie, Sheila Yeung and Angela Feng, were working on Munchie's appeal and its financing when Toronto Animal Services killed Munchie. They weren't even told that Munchie had been killed; a reporter told them when he called them for their reaction.
Get the whole story from this [...]

Finally a bit of good news!
Caveat ran a story on a case August 1, 2007.  
I went to court (all 4 dates) and supported the person charged in this case yesterday. We withheld all information previous to the court date. I am going to continue to withhold the name of the person charged, but what I [...]

Another high profile case in Mississauga began today. Rambo has been on death row since Christmas day when he was picked up running at large. Unfortunately for him, the AC officer decided he looked like a banned dog and placed him on death row.  Now, do you suppose if Rambo had longer hair he might [...]