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Saying goodbye to Ollie

01 December 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Animals
Ollie showed up at our door in the summer of 1997. He was an adult cat then, maybe two years old, but possibly older. And he was a big cat, bigger than any other we'd ever had, his short fur all black except in the sunlight when you could see he had a dark, chocolate brown undercoat that suggested a Burmese heritage. A tiny brush of white was...

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Are monkeys self-aware? How do we define awareness?

02 October 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Science, Animals, Social values
There's an interesting article in this week's online edition of The Scientist about experiments done with rhesus monkeys and mirrors to determine if they recognize themselves. In other words, can they see themselves in the mirror and identify the image as their own self? That, we're told, indicated self-awareness.

Self-awareness in...

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GBAR desperately needs volunteers

05 September 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Animals, Collingwood life, Social values
Susan and I spent a couple of hours this morning helping out at the the Georgian Bay Animal Rescue shelter on Tenth Line. We helped out in one of the quarantined cat rooms, cleaning cages, feeding, and giving affection to the cats in there. It took two hours just to get all the cats taken care of.

It's heart-wrenching to work with all these...

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GBAR's Adopt-a-thon a success

30 August 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Collingwood life, Animals
Dropped by the Georgian Bay Animal Rescue's August Adopt-a-thon, Saturday. While I don't have the totals yet, the event was very successful, and several cats were adopted. What we intended as a few minutes' visit stretched into an hour or more, once we entered the cat...

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Many cats at the GBAR shelter need loving homes

19 April 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Animals
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We spent more than two hours, Saturday, in the cat rooms at the new Georgian Bay Animal Rescue shelter, on the Tenth Line in Collingwood. GBAR has an unusual concept - open rooms, not individual cages. That way cats can socialize, play, move about, interact...

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