Showing 35 posts from May 2009
Some veterinarians are trying to increase public awareness of bulldog health issues. This movement was started by Dr. Meredith Kennedy, who had seen too many bulldogs die of relatively common and easily preventable diseases. She has a list of 25 veterinarians who are providing analysis of the bulldog’s unique physical conditions and its various health [...]
Now, I haven’t received any comments or messages yet from people claiming to have a St. John’s water dog, but before I do, I’ll just say it again. The St. John’s water dog died out in the 1980’s. The last two dogs were found. They were both dogs, and they were both ancient. When they [...]
I knew it!
Farley Mowat did breed Albert. Albert, it turns out, was a very rare find in Newfoundland of those days.
Mowat bred Albert to a Labrador, which is the closest thing to a St. John’s Labrador. He hoped the pups would have the big white spot on the chest that Albert possessed. Unfortunately, the [...]
As you may know, one of my favorite authors is Farley Mowat. I normally hate romantic stories of any sort, but I like Mowat’s writing. Thus, I picked up Bay of Spirits, a memoir about his courtship of his second wife along the rugged coast of Newfoundland, with more interest in Newfoundland than the actual [...]
Originally, we had only two species of lizard at the farm. Now we have three.
Yesterday, I saw what I thought was an unusually colored five-lined skink.
However, it was a bronze-colored lizard. Five-lined skinks are not bronze colored. You can actually count the five yellow lines going down their backs.
This lizard looked very like a five-lined [...]
