My dogs nodded their approval this morning when, as always I added my last night leftovers to their breakfast spread. Cold fish pie and shrivelled two week old blueberries crowned their kibble. From the time they were pups I’ve given
With a band playing in the Minstrel’s Gallery and my wife Julia in the small, invited audience, I stepped forward for the late Queen Elizabeth to present me with a medal for cofounding the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.
Do any of you remember the garlic-breath epidemic in dogs 40 years ago? My first case was a Jack Russell terrier. When I lifted her lip to check the colour of her gums, I was blasted by enough aroma to
At your child’s or grandchild’s school, a pupil has head lice. Would you be happy with advice that all children be treated monthly with a preventative chemical that kills head lice? If you were happy to do that, would you
Are you sending a Valentine’s Day card to your pet this year? More important, do you think he or she would send one to you? We love them. Do they really love us? Let’s start with cats. Cats, as lovable
At York Street our completely unscientific, pulled out of a hat, statistic is that one in four of the pets we see is obese. If that’s so your companions are on the good side of Britain’s pet population. UK Petfoods,
On my first day at the Ontario Veterinary College in 1963, the President of the Veterinary Student Union gave us a “Welcome to OVC” talk. Carlton Gyles lectured us on the importance of arriving at lectures and labs in white
When I was a young boy in 1940s Toronto, and cats were still second class citizens, our neighbour’s cat Tiger had an unauthorized litter and my parents adopted two of them, a girl they called Tabby (or Tabitha when my
Do you remember 40 years ago when the style of wearing baseball caps backwards spread around the world in a year? Ideas spread unseen, just like viruses do. Paleolithic diets for us and raw diets for dogs are one of