Sign of the foo. Photo © TimParkinson, via Creative Commons and flickr.com/timparkinson/ In the recent Incident of the Abandoned Ford Thunderbird, the Sooke resident who found the abandoned car, complete…
Tag: dogs
Dogs take a bow(-wow!) for canine cognition
Some dogs show more intelligence than most people. Or so their owners tell me. Perhaps thinking of one’s four-legged best friend as brighter than one’s children—perhaps not one’s children, but…

Killer Kitty? Research shows pet diseases are infecting sea mammals
A neighbour’s cat adopted me last year. When she’s bored and I’m home, she visits. She gets a lap to nap on. I get a cat without kitty litter, cat…
Poop patrol
Canadian Geographic, July 2009 A black Labrador retriever named Tucker is helping researchers determine why orcas summering off southern Vancouver Island are dying. Tucker lends his nose to science by…