Category: Pets

While Linda and I were visiting Jo-Anne Broad to visit Alice the cat and her kittens in Jo-Anne’s home in Plaster Rock I admired an enormous and beautiful Christmas Cactus which dominates a corner in the living room.   It turns out that this is a plant with a...

Lorna Demeria The old saying, “time flies when you’re having fun” must have been talking about fostering puppies. It’s hard to believe that all that time has passed and we have had some fun!   On February 24th, DunRoamin’ Stray and Rescue” had a call from a family. They...

Bigger Tigger here, It’s been sooo snowy and cold and not Tigger-friendly outside, that I have been forced to spend my time watching TV.   I like commercials.  Tig has been trying to get Angie to buy a Tig all the cool things he sees.  Like the can of stuff...

As I was delivering the previous issue of the Blackfly to Plaster Rock I stopped in at the Arthurette Animal Shelter to say hi to Linda, Shelley and the cat gang. I met some new additions to the crew. Everyone came over to say hello and Barney and Harriet...

Big Tig here, This week, Angie took Tig to a couple places and asked Tig to go and try to talk to the wild cats that live there. I asked why a handsome Tiggy has to traipse through the snow, in the cold, to talk to cats? Angie knows...

Big Tig here, .   The other day I was trying to teach Angie to count.  It seems this is going to be a long term goal, for both of us.  Angie says it’s my method, I am pretty sure it’s my student.  This is how it goes…. When...

The SPCA Pond Hockey Fundraising Event was a great success, generating much needed money to support the cause of our homeless pets….and rewarding 3 lucky winners with great prizes!   There were two raffle draws for a cool $100 based on numbers drawn on squares picked that were super-imposed...

Stephanie Kelley & Big-n-Yellow The 1st Perth-Andover Sparks Unit meets at the Andover Elementary School every Tuesday night. The girls take up a number of causes, and their promise is : “I promise to share and be a friend.” They certainly did that and more with their recent challenge...

Stephanie Kelley We’ve made it through the first month of winter but baby, it’s still cold outside. A handsome silver tabby cat was found trying to take shelter under some vehicles in Aroostook. He was homeless, and the guy who found him couldn’t keep him, so Robert III, as...

Big Tig here, .   Tigger was in the dog house. Angie was mad at me. I might have played a couple of mind games with the new dog. I might have got a couple of the other cats to help me. We might have continued, if we hadn’t...