I had to put one of our cats to sleep earlier this month. Garbo Jeng had had a severe lung infection, which left extensive scarring on the lining of her lungs. It turned out she also had a very large tumour and she was in a pretty serious condition; her breathing was shallow and very…
Read More Garbo Jeng and Fatima: A Tale of Two KittiesSome cats are just naturally regal-looking and comport themselves well. Winston was like that. He was a stolid, good looking black cat of ours from a few years ago. Winston had survived on the streets for quite some time before being taken in by the Ottawa Humane Society, where we then adopted him. He’d been used…
Read More Classy CatI’m pleased to see that since its launch in 2003, my Lost and Found Pets web site at CanadaStrays.com is still going strong. In fact (within the last day or so, I guess) the counter on the sidebar has just passed the 1000 mark of “pets found by owner”. This is measured by the number of owners…
Read More 1003 pets found by owners!We had to put our dog, Sara, to sleep yesterday. She had started to lose complete control of her bladder and it had gotten to the stage where she was peeing right in front of us, without any warning she needed to go outside. She was an old dog of 13 years, with arthritis in her…
Read More Sara the DogIf you’ve read some of the earlier posts in this blog, you may by now have realised that we’re big animal lovers and that we have a few pets in our household; two cats and a dog, to be precise. We adopted all our pets from the humane societies in Ottawa and Toronto. In April 2006 we adopted…
Read More Downward Dog