Critters

Frank Touby — Tank spent his first night back in St. Lawrence Neighbourhood on very familiar ground. Not nearly as free-wheeling as he could be at our Lake Erie cottage, but in a known and treasured environment. He visited his ...

We’re back in Toronto as the week comes to an end and Thanksgiving looms large. It’s good to be back in our St. Lawrence Neighbourhood. The Lake Erie cottage was a wonderful break and a time for us to create ...

Frank Touby — I have a stalker. As we start just thinking in terms of packing up to return to Toronto for Thanksgiving and prepare to leave the Lake Erie shore, Tank remains fixated mainly on me. He’s listening to ...

Frank Touby — Oct. 8, 2014 and Tank is settling in better. We’re still at our cottage at Lake Erie. He’s still sutured to me at the hip, having lived in a totally male world. But Paulette is slowly making ...

Frank Touby — Oct. 6, 2014 was our first day together outside Tank’s familiar turf of St. Lawrence Neighbourhood. It would be our second night together. It was also the first time he was in for a 90-minute Jeep drive ...

Frank Touby — On Oct. 4 Tank spent his first night with us since our adoption of him earlier in the week. It was the day after Paulette’s birthday and it was as if  Tank had lived here all along. ...

Marty McKendry — This exchange took place in Senate Question Period Oct. 2 as the result of a question on the captivity of whales and dolphins asked by Ottawa resident Caroline McNaught: Hon. Wilfred P. Moore: My question today is for ...

Frank Touby — When Danny Murphy passed away last month, his many local friends were bereft. But most of all, his beloved black Labrador retriever, Tank, was frantic over the loss. Tank was as well known as Danny and had ...

  On Oct. 2, local animal rights activists, along with U.S.-based nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), will hold a 12-hour protest at the Maple Leaf Poultry slaughterhouse to protest the brutalization and killing of animals. The protest is part ...

Bring your animals to St. Paul’s Basilica on the Feast Day of  St. Francis, Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. to noon. “They don’t have to be Catholic,” says Fr. Frank McDevitt, pastor of the church and son of an Albion ...