Monday , 29 April 2024

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"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in", Mark Twain.Behind a serious professional façade lies the puckish mind of a man who just wants to stay home and watch Netflix with his beagles. That is Jonathan in a nutshell. Over the last decade Jonathan has discovered a simple truth: beagles are like chips, you can’t stop at one. He is the first harbinger of Beagle Mania and wants to leave no man, women or child bereft of the joy that these fantastic beasts bring.We hope that you enjoy his scribbled musings about nature’s olfactory kings and other critters of the lovable variety.

Does volunteering with animals help make you more creative?

How do you spark your creativity? I like to do it by pulling myself out of my usual routine and putting my brain – and usually body – into new environments. I like to believe that this strips away the superficial and routine thought processes that I thought were important and forces me to focus more on the core matters …

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Happy Howl-idays

Who needs eight tiny reindeer when you have six merry little doggos? That was the scene when the fam and I got together on Christmas day. Much to my mother’s dismay not one of her children brought any new grand-babies to the festivities this year but there was a large assortment of grand-puppies featuring some old and new faces. The …

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How to throw your dog a birthday party

Here’s a little life advice, throw your dog a birthday party. If for no other reason you could do it because throwing a party for your best friend is always the right and wonderful thing to do. However, there are so many other reasons to do it. But before we get to those let’s set up what a proper dog …

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Beagle S.O.S.

This is awful. By now most of us have seen the horrific footage aired by W5 last year of animals being experimented on and abused by employees of ITR Labs, a contract biotechnology research company located out in Baie-d’Urfé. The images are heart wrenching to say the least. Employees not only restraining animals and applying toxic substances to their skin …

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The 2018-2019 SPCA Event Calendar Starts Now

Without a doubt, my favourite thing to do in my spare time is watching Netflix with my wife and our two majestic beagles. For those of you who feel the same I offer this two-fold piece of advice: the 2009 film Hachi: A Dog’s Tale is perhaps both the greatest and worst film to watch with your dog. You have …

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A House Guest to Remember

It was a singularly unique moment in 2014 when, while driving back home to Montreal from New York city with my wife, I sent the following text to my brother-in-law Charles “Try luring him back with some cold cuts”. My sweetheart and I were spending the weekend in NYC and had left our little beagle cherubs with her family. Surely …

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He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Beagle

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been guilty of projecting a little human personality onto your dog, cat or guinea pig. For those of you with no hands in the air, welcome to Earth; I recommend pizza, Paris at night and Stranger Things while you are visiting us. For the rest of us this is a pretty natural reaction to …

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