Category: Animals

On a typical warm weekend at Cold Garden, a brewery in Calgary’s Inglewood neighborhood, about 100 dogs will join their human patrons as they enjoy a drink. Co-founder of the brewery Dan Allard says being pet-friendly has been a big win for business. Dogs are allowed on the patio and inside the taproom, since they don’t prepare food on site. “It honestly wasn’t part of the business plan, and it seems silly to say that now given it’s such a big part of our brand,” he said in an interview with Alberta at Noon. Pet-friendly public spaces, such as patios,…

Addison is cute in sketch form and in real life.Ottawa Humane Society The Ottawa Humane Society decided to test its artistic skills by drawing its available pets. The shelter posted on social media that its “camera broke” so the staff had to draw the animals. It posted sketches of a dog, a cat, and two bunnies who were all looking for forever homes. The Ottawa Humane Society decided to get creative on social media earlier this month to raise awareness for the many adorable shelter animals who are looking for families to adopt them. Instead of posting normal photos, the…

Another few weeks have passed in a hot, hazy daze. Our little family were on holiday for a few of those weeks and as always steps were taken to ensure the hairiest member of the household could join us. Who needs the South of France anyway? It’s been so gorgeous here I wouldn’t have had it any other way. By “here” I mean Aberdeen – the holidays were enjoyed on Skye and Portsoy. Not perhaps the best of times for dog photography sessions – the heat has caused a few postponements and quite rightly so. Evenings are often the best…

Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming has shared a new picture of her husband with their daughter, as she shared the news that a clinical trial for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) had ended without results. Earlier in 2023 the family revealed that his previous aphasia diagnosis was actually frontotemporal dementia. “Yesterday I read that Wave Life Sciences ended their clinical trial that could potentially treat frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS.) Where I’m not sure it could have helped us over here, it doesn’t really matter, it still feels like a gut punch,” Emma captioned the carousel of pictures which…

An animal shelter has been sharing drawings instead of photographs of the pets they care for in hopes of getting them adopted. On May 9, the Ottawa Humane Society appeared to have warmed hearts on Facebook after posting some of the original artwork created by staff, after they thought their camera had stopped working. “Our camera broke so we’ve resorted to drawing our adoptable animals,” the Ottawa Humane Society in Canada, shared in a public Facebook post. SENIOR DOG IN CALIFORNIA ON THE VERGE OF BEING EUTHANIZED IS ADOPTED, BEATS CANCER The organization shared four renderings of different animals up…

The BC SPCA is reminding pet owners of the impact of hot weather can have on their four-legged family members as heat advisories are in effect for much of the province this weekend. Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a special weather statement for BC’s South Coast Friday, with daytime temperatures expected to reach 10 to 15 C above seasonal averages for this time of year. The weather agency says the heat wave could bring daytime highs reaching into the high 20s to low 30s, with overnight temperatures expected to hit the low to mid-teens. According to the SPCA, the…

As crisp smoke filled the air, turning the sky around her sleepy hometown, Fox Creek, Alberta, a blood orange line, Nicole Clarke said she felt a sense of terror. With no time to collect family photographs, she grabbed her two young children, hopped into her pickup truck, and sped away, praying she wouldn’t drive into the blaze’s fishing path. “This feels like a Canadian Armageddon, like a bad horror film,” said Ms. Clarke, a 37-year-old hair stylist, standing outside her pickup truck, a large pile of dirty laundry piled in the trunk. In a country revered for placid landscapes and…

When Bernadine Swale’s marriage ended after 36 years, when she was 57, her first instinct – once she had recovered from the shock – was that she couldn’t manage alone. “The standard, cookie-cutter way you have to be in your 60s is man and woman, and you travel together,” he says. It took her a few years to realize: “Actually, no.” Now 68, Swale, a retired pharmacist, travels the world as a pet-sitter. Last year, she spent only 23 nights in her own bed, in a loft that looks out over downtown Denver. Pet-sitting stops have included London, New York,…