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Puffy’s Day

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:35:23 +0000

Ever wonder what your pet gets up to while you’re at work? Well I recently bought security software that turns your webcam into a motion detecting surveillance system. I turned it on before I left for work today. Here’s a time-lapsed video of what my cat got up to:

Slow Food, Real Food

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:18:18 +0000

I just finished reading “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan (thanks to Jennifer Vuillemot for lending it to me!). Before finishing this book, I also read his other book “In Defense of Food” and watched a documentary that he’s featured in called “Food Inc.”.

If you’re concerned about the food you’re eating, how its produced, how the animals are treated and how the land is used, these three are must read/views. If you’re a farmer, an animal rights activist, vegetarian, an environmentalist, a worker for a factory farm or slaughterhouse, or just a regular person, these books and documentary will speak to you.

None of these are extremist propaganda in case you’re worried. You’ll come away with the tools you need to make informed choices about the food you eat…and to support the producers you trust and respect.

Puffy’s Weekend

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:55:36 +0000

Well, I’ve had Puffy for a while now, and she just keeps getting cuter and cuter. Here are pics from yesterday. You can see one of her favourite pastimes: destroying Tim Horton’s wrappers. She also loves to be wrapped up in anything. She stayed in this cloth long enough for a nap.

New Pictures

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:51:32 +0000

Check out my pictures from my visit with my folks in June. If you’re a nature lover, there’s lots of animals, trees, birds and flowers. www.chowntown.com/photographs/

Cutest thing I have ever seen

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:06:41 +0000

TICKLE TICKLE!

City Cat and Country Cat

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:57:59 +0000

Here’s my cat, Puffy, and the bottom picture is a barn cat in New Brunswick named Tom. Separated at birth, don’t you think?

Eye Opener on the Pet Food Industry

Robin — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:51:57 +0000

I was watching a documentary on the pet food industry and I was horrified to learn of the practices employed by the various companies. CRUEL animal testing including killing of the test animals, and much, much more. Almost all of them employ extremely deceptive marketing practices and your cat is eating a majority of grains even if meat is listed first on their ingredient labels.

If you want to know what companies use animal testing check out this website: http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/hummingbird/198/id2.htm

If you’d like to find out more about the CBC documentary check it out here: http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/dogsbreakfast.html

…and here’s an organization working to improve the situation for all pet owners: http://www.defendourpets.org/

A Great Charity

Robin — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:13:54 +0000

Help give them a few years of relative peace.

Puffy

Robin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:10:31 +0000

Here Puffy! I adopted her from Toronto Cat Rescue this week and I am in love already:

Diesel

Robin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:02:35 +0000

This is Diesel. He belongs to my friend Patrick Munn. I took care of him for two days and now I miss him. Isn’t he cute as a button?

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