Three years

Over the weekend, a more than kind Linda Diebel wrote an article about this blog and me for The Toronto Star and as a result, it's brought a bunch more readers here so first off, welcome everyone. Thanks for dropping by.

When I started blogging in 2008, I wanted to focus on the dogs so I kept myself out of it. No pictures, no full names, not much personal stuff unless it involved Stella or Rocky. I was blogging and people were reading and for the most part, no one knew who I was and that was fine. I felt like I had a secret identity.

Same with this blog when I started it. I wanted to concentrate even more on the dogs, less on animal welfare politics and personalities. I wanted this blog to do one thing and that was to get more dogs adopted from Toronto Animal Services. Inevitably, I sometimes strayed off topic but I think I generally stayed the course.

Reposting some of the old blog's posts this past week made me realize that simply cataloging dogs misses something. Or maybe it's that I miss something. I miss the writing.

As a result of that, and also as a result of not having to feel like I need, or can, remain hidden anymore, I might start writing more or at least about a wider range of topics. It's still not going to be like One Bark at a Time, though. I don't have that kind of time anymore and that's because of age related temporal distortion - you know, that thing you get as you get older where a week seems like a cupcake and a month seems like brunch. Hopefully, supper is still a ways off.

So, thanks for spending some time with Toronto Animal Services South, their dogs, and me as well.

Cheers.