CHECK OUT — World Society for protection of animals
It has only taken…. Ohhhhh! Five years! Yes that is what happens to you, your head, your self esteem, your thought process when you have an experience in your job like I had.
CHECK OUT– Save American (and Canadian) Wolves
CHECK OUT — Stop the seal hunt in Canadas
It has been a very long hard road.
I once was a very passionate Animal welfare, rights, etc… I won’t say activist, but I wasn’t scared to voice my opinion and make others see my point of view.
Then well! The worst experience I have ever had in my life (other than the loss of my Father) happened and I lost all intrest in everything. 
I have slowly seen myself come back to being who I was (I will never be the same!) James came into my life, I got my job at CAMH, I got my head straight with the help of a Doc and some meds, I went back to school, I got my doggie….
But most of all I have noticed lately I am getting back to that outspoken stage when it comes to animals.
This is how I know that I am almost there!
I can’t name every one that helped me… Jennifer and Randy! Wow would would I have done with out you! Robynne, you bailed my ass out a number of times, James love you forever, Nan and Gramps for taking me in when I was a ball of crying nothing, Mom and Bren for everythign they did… All of those who went through the same thing I did… You all know who you are… We are all forever linked even if we don’t want to be…. All of my friends that stayed with me even when I said no to your 17th invite to going out because I would rather wallow on my couch. To my family who are mostly just as crazy as I am!
It was my love for animals that brought me to the place that was in, it was my love for my animals that got me through the state I was in and it is the return of my love and fight for animals that lets me know I am allllllright!
CHECK OUT — Canada\’s guide to breed specific legislation
Life is really OK!
“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” ~ Martin Buber
“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” ~ Immanual Kant
“My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet.” ~ Edith Wharton
“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.” ~ Hazel Nicholson
“The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals” ~ Anonymous
“Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!” ~ Theophile Gautier
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” ~ Roger Caras
“There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.” ~ Wesley Bates
“Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.” ~ Anonymous 
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
“A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself.” ~ Josh Billings
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~ Anatole France
“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.” ~ Joe Gores
“A canter is the cure for all evil.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” ~ Anonymous
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” ~ Ann Landers
“In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat” ~ Warren Eckstein
“A house is not a home without a pet.” ~ Anonymous
“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” ~ Jean Cocteau
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans” ~ James Herriot
“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are
so placid and self-contained,
I stand and look at them long and long.” ~ Walt Whitman 
“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” ~ Ben Williams
“A dog maybe a man’s best friend but a horse made history…” ~ Anonymous
“No heaven will not ever Heaven be;
Unless my cats are there to welcome me.” ~ Anonymous
“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in?
I think that is how dogs spend their lives.” ~ Sue Murphy
“To err is human, to forgive, canine” ~ Anonymous
“To err is human, to purr, feline” ~ Robert Byrne
“A horse gallops with his lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character.” ~ Tesio
“A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!” ~ Shakespeare
“All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.” ~ Samuel Butler
“You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!'” ~ Dave Barry
“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.” ~ Robert Lynd
“The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi 
“The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.” ~ James Thurber
“A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.” ~ Samuel Butler
“I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” ~ Hippolyte Taine
“Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one” ~ Anonymous
“Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue.” ~ Anonymous
“The dog represents all that is best in man.” ~ Etienne Charlet
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.” ~ John Berry
“And God took a handful of southernly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse.” ~ Bedouin Legend
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” ~ Andrew A. Rooney
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” ~ Mary Bly
“Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.” ~ George Elliot
“The Trouble with a kitten is
That
Eventually it becomes a
Cat”
~ Ogden Nash
“The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.” ~ Samuel Butler
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warmer.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
“…he will be our friend for always and always and always.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
“The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.” ~ Thornton Wilder
“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.” ~ Montaigne
Some info on Sringohydromyelia that happens in King Charles Cavalier Spaniels.
poses major health issues, and puppies born without it are immediately culled even if healthy, because they don’t fit the breed profile. It has been prove that the puppies with the ridge that is so sought after are sickly and prone to pin hole like lesions on their skin which allow infection to get to their spin or brains. The puppies without the ridge are the more heartier of the breed! 
While I understand that we have to have standards because we can’t have people going of half-assed or half-cocked breeding left, right and centre, but really should the standard, cosmetics and or looks weigh heavier in the show ring than HEALTH!????? The winner of Crufts in 2003 Yakee a Dangerous Liason a Pekingese was immediately rushed from the winning circle to sit on an ice pack to cool him down because the threat of him overheating from running around the ring under the lights with that fur was imminent! 
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