Tala has cancer. As it happened with Cody, We found a lump. First I was sure it was a cyst, then I was hoping it was a cyst, now I’m just hoping it’s not an iceberg. There’s a big ugly tumoury thing sticking out, but this type of sarcoma is k…
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wmtc: diego is on tv! (and dogtopia is amazing.)
When we dropped off Tala and Diego for their vacation, a film crew from Breakfast Television was there. The results are here, and Diego is all over that video! (There doesn’t seem to be a way to embed it, so please click!)If you look carefully, you can…
Continue readingwmtc: off to vancouver
I struggle to find time to write even a small fraction of what I’d like to post here. But there’s one thing I’ll always write about: my travels. And there are never enough of them.This morning we are flying to Vancouver, our first time there. A few day…
Continue readingwmtc: dogtopia: a dog hotel comes to mississauga (and we give it a great review)
When we travel, we’ve always had someone stay over in our home with the dogs. In almost 30 years of dogs, we only boarded our dogs once. It was not a good experience, and we never did it again. Also, for many years, our schedules also required a dogwal…
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Okay, not really. The Middle East crisis is a pretty big crisis and I can’t solve it. But — We’ve been avenging ourselves on Middle Eastern countries for 911 and fighting a “war on terror” now for 14 years. Did we win yet? Has terror stopped? Does anyone feel safer? I’ve given […] […]
wmtc: a gray rug, a black kong, a happy white dog
We need to get rugs or carpet runners for Tala; she’s slipping on the wood floors when she and Diego play. But with one heavy shedder and one heavy drooler, we’re not too keen on buying nice rugs. While looking for something else at Ikea, we found a rug they
Continue readingwmtc: in which we (re)adjust to apartment life
On August 30, 2015, we marked 10 years of life in Canada. On August 31, we moved from our rented house to a high-rise rental apartment, likely our last move for a very long time. The move itself was an absolute nightmare, a Murphy’s Law Spectacular. I don’t even want
Continue readingwmtc: preparing for the inevitable and diego’s mid-term report card
As the days count down until we move from house to apartment, I’m having trouble shaking my sadness. I’m very aware of the privileged position I’m in. We were able to find a really nice apartment, and although moving is expensive, we’ll be able to absorb it. Right now we
Continue readingwmtc: dogs, apartments, and anxiety: in which diego returns to school
As I mentioned (almost a month ago now), our pack of four is moving to a new den. We’re going to stop renting houses, as we have done for the past ten years, and move back to apartment life. Although I’ve adjusted to the idea, I’m no happier about it.
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Bones in my pocket
So I’m sitting on the chesterfield, having my tea and thinking how nice it would be to have a patio I could sit on to have my tea and do some writing of a lovely spring morning, when what to my wondering eyes should appear to port side but a
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Why we can’t be friends when you’re in Hawaii
My cousin is in Hawaii right now, and I have vowed that she and I can NOT be friends until she is home. Now. She’s a professional photographer, so all of her pictures of her little “vacation” are fucking gorgeous, and because I am not at all petty or jealous,
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Storytelling Month – Dogs
To celebrate Storytelling Month, I’m going to tell you at least one story per week in February. These are all true stories. You know how you sometimes get in to the middle of a situation and then you wonder “how the hell did I get here?”, and then you spend the
Continue readingwmtc: pupdate!
It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted a pupdate. The short version: Tala is doing great! You may recall that some years back, shortly after we adopted Diego, our Tala was diagnosed with cauda equina syndrome. Thus began a long, slow process of rest, rehabilitation, and experiments with
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Never doubt the frown. 🙂 Filed under: Humour Tagged: Dogs, Frowning, Humour
Continue readingwmtc: garth hudson returns to big pink
This week, Columbia Records released The Basement Tapes Complete, six CDs of music made by Bob Dylan and The Band at the house they lived in – the legendary Big Pink – in West Saugerties, New York, during the summer of 1967. Although The Band, and Bob Dylan, and Bob
Continue readingwmtc: rest in peace, canine with a brave rebel heart
When I blogged about him a few years back, he was called Kanellos, the Greek rebel dog. Somewhere along the way, English-language media dubbed him Riot Dog. He was also called Louk, short for Loukanikos. Louk, Kanellos, and also Thodoris may or may not have been the same dog. Whatever
Continue readingwmtc: this year’s mini garden and a mini pupdate
This year’s garden-ette is completely out of control! In a very good way. Here’s June. And here’s today. No idea what I’m going to do with all the zucchini. Neither of us bakes, so zucchini bread and muffins are not an option. Guess I’d better start Googling… This eggplant is
Continue readingwmtc: this year’s garden-ette and sweet dogs in their small backyard
Here are some visuals for this post. This year’s crop, we hope: eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, basil, and thyme. As you can see, it’s a fraction of the backyard we used to have, and kind of bare. But it does the job! We’re putting a canopy over the patio. “Wither thou
Continue readingwmtc: please speak out against horrific cruelty to dogs
A long time ago, I watched a PBS show about dogs. At the end, there was a short segment about the domestic canines’ suffering from human maltreatment or neglect. That segment included a short piece on the trade in dog meat for human consumption. In one image, faraway and a
Continue readingwmtc: this year’s garden and diego’s new favourite food
Three years ago, we planted our first-ever garden, really a tiny garden-ette, growing two tomato plants and some daisies. (I had forgotten about the flowers til I saw that older post.) I really enjoyed growing the vegetables, and was surprised and pleased to learn that it wasn’t very time-consuming, at
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