LucasThe veterinarian was kind, but candid. "It's not good," he said, gesturing down at the shaggy-haired German shepherd mix who lay at our...
#ProjectPuppies: Maternity WardDusk, somewhere outside of Saskatoon. A hellacious winter storm had just pummelled the province of Saskatchewan less than a day earlier,...
#ProjectPuppies: Snow DogsI must have let out the breath I didn't realize I was holding, because beside me, Jesse stirred awake in the passenger seat. "You good,...
#ProjectPuppies: Turn and Burn"If this dog survives," I thought to myself as I tilted a water dish to Rosie's lips so she could drink, weakly, from where she lay, "I...
#ProjectPuppies: We DeliverThere's an art to a middle-of-the-night, eighteen-puppy pit stop. Done right, it's almost poetic, a synchronicity of humans and dogs, pee...
Drop Everything And DogOf all the things I imagined doing when I bought my truck, cradling a mama dog on the tailgate by the side of the highway while she...
#ProjectPuppies: Cannonball Run"Let's make a pact," I told Alexis, somewhere early in our 3700km rescue dog cannonball run to northern Saskatchewan and back. "No matter...
#ProjectPuppies"What on earth have we gotten ourselves into?" I asked myself, my stomach churning with a bad case of nerves as I piloted the truck north...
Trust The ProcessI'm not quite where I want to be yet. That's the main takeaway, I think, as the new year dawns. I came into 2019 determined not to...
Small VictoriesI was scrolling through my Facebook Memories today when a post came up from ten years ago that caught my eye. "Ah, rejection," I wrote,...