Brummet's Conscious Blog

Adopting New Fur-Family Members !! Today we celebrate the adoption of two new fur-kids. It is a very interesting story how this all came about. After the loss of our Skyla, Duchess fell right into senior mode more than ever. Duchess began showing more signs that the 10 years she's lived is getting her a bit tired. She wants to sleep more, do less, and keep to herself... except for food and cuddles.  So when it came to looking for new dogs we determined we should get two, so that Duchess will not be bothered by the young energy as much - the young ones would play together rather than bother her. Sadly for weeks we scoured local shelters, then broadening our research to up to out of Province (Alberta and NwT). Only the northern shelters had dogs coming up and so transport logistics were going to be an issue. The other shelters had older or aggressive dogs - not what we were looking for. Then, all of a sudden, two dogs came available locally - within days of each other. These were re-...

Celebrating Skyla Skyla came to us as a puppy 12 years ago - rescued by the BC SPCA from a puppy mill in Prince George... sadly during that rescue only a few puppies and dogs were in a state that the SPCA could save, a lot were put down. Skyla was emancipated, had a heart murmur, worms, and a sensitive-afraid-needy nature... she survived by eating other dogs' poops and any dropped snacks she could find. She was just 4 months old and barely filled in a tile on our kitchen floor.  She was my baby, my fur-child. ...Always at my feet in the office. ...When she was young I was still running the radio show and you could hear her chewing her squeaky toy and doing her best to keep my attention. Talk about me learning multitasking skills, lol.  She joined us camping, hiking, mountain biking on the old railway beds, snowshoeing in the winter, pacing by the lake edge while we played in the water... she never did like getting wet or dirty or messy and always avoided puddles when we walked...