tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67327972024-03-15T22:10:05.903-03:00Me and my dogs in Halifax, Nova ScotiaJoan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.comBlogger2143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-35979828617951689032022-01-01T13:39:00.001-04:002022-01-01T13:39:17.945-04:00Happy Gail Benoit Month! Her long held prohibition on owning, selling or otherwise having anything to do with animals is over in January 2022!So she will be allowed to go back and do whatever she wants again with animals - even travel down to the States and get dogs like every other rescue/dog broker is currently doing - we’ll see what happens with that but she’d be absolutely stupid to not buy a van and start Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-65743109282440428482021-12-09T13:34:00.002-04:002021-12-31T09:14:08.957-04:00an update to my previous post on the Nova Scotia SPCA Well they did it - In late September I wrote a post critical about the Nova Scotia SPCA - that they had begun importing dogs from the United States - that they had seen other groups importing dogs and they just could not resist all the money being made off the backs of dogs from the USA and the easy money they created and the absolute un ending treadmill that has been created down there - Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-24320759510213490632021-09-28T20:25:00.000-03:002021-09-28T20:25:13.299-03:00Making money off the back of dogs is wrong - no matter who is doing itBack in 2009 Nathan Winograd wrote a book that changed my life - it was called "Redemption" and it was about the "no kill revolution" and it was all about the idea that animals did not need to die in shelters - whether the shelter was a private shelter or an animal control operation or wherever -the only reason why animals were killed in shelters was because there was no will to save them.
I Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-82114790800706884612021-03-20T18:21:00.003-03:002021-03-20T18:21:35.694-03:00Update to Snoopy the dog's story - hopefully 2 of 3So in early March there was an update to Snoopy the dog's story for those who weren't in the loop and it was a big one - unfortunately it wasn't a big enough one for Snoopy to make it back into his Dad's arms - so I am calling this update two of three - because Snoopy still needs to go home.If you aren't familiar with Snoopy's story here is a link to my first post about himWhat I'm going to do isJoan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-52198941150795819902021-03-16T15:38:00.001-03:002021-03-16T15:46:28.170-03:00I am shutting down my Gail Benoit website I wrote my first blog post here about Gail Benoit in 2007 - so 14 years ago and I started the website shortly afterward. It always bothered me that when you googled her name nothing bad came up about her so if people were doing their due diligence and trying to find out if she was selling healthy puppies - they didn't have any way to find out because there was nothing out there about Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-38450764808809629182021-03-14T14:57:00.007-03:002021-03-15T14:23:50.887-03:00It's not about the importing - it's about the grift I have been trying to think about how to write about what's going on with the news stories recently (and not so recently) with dogs being imported to Atlantic Canada and the problems that are being caused by them.It's being going on for awhile. For years actually. People have always brought dogs from away - dogs that they've fallen in love with while away on vacation in fabulous locales in Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-6163577515580750582021-03-06T20:51:00.003-04:002021-03-06T20:51:44.770-04:00Karin Robertson found not guilty of abusing her dogsWell actually I don't think that's exactly what she was charged with - don't charge me with defamation for that throwaway line Karin - you're probably feeling litigous right now - the title of this post is a joke - I'm JOKING! HAHA! We're laughing!So I have written several, nay you could almost say I've written many - posts over the years on this blog about the justice system in this Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-87821514827628158382020-09-14T16:56:00.004-03:002020-09-14T17:31:56.332-03:00Snoopy the dog, unscrupulous realtors who think they know better & hopelessness It is difficult when you're in a power struggle and you're the one who has no power - that can be a very unhappy place to be.And that is where a man named Michael Smaggus is. Through no fault of his own he has had his life ripped apart and no one seems to want to help him. I am going to tell his story from my view - maybe it's not the correct view - maybe I'm being lied to - but I Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-42876290301256350382020-09-11T23:39:00.002-03:002020-09-12T09:11:53.565-03:00Robert Hunt: President of the Board of the Directors of New Brunswick SPCA, Candidate for Provincial Liberals, secret pit bull haterSo this is not a pleasant post to write. Why would anyone get involved with animal advocacy at such a high position as President of the Board of Directors of the New Brunsick SPCA and secretly want to see pit bull type dogs exterminated from the face of the earth?I suppose it makes sense in some ways - it would allow you to move forward if you had any untoward agendas, that's for sure.I Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-76355389266052889202019-08-25T17:23:00.006-03:002019-08-25T17:23:56.966-03:00The History of breed specific legislation in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotian's pride themselves for being free thinkers - we like to think that we are generally kind, accepting of everyone and welcoming of anyone who wants to come and join into our loving society that we have here in our little province.
So you'd think that we wouldn't give in to the lesser impulses of thinking that some animals don't deserve to live on this earth while giving elevated Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-39151374613898407112019-05-13T01:36:00.003-03:002021-01-27T19:29:47.023-04:00Sad things happening - and reasons to hope - about animal advocacy in Nova Scotia
I can't believe I haven't written a post here since last November. It's not that things haven't been happening with dog politics here in Nova Scotia - it's just that - I have had this blog since 2003 - that's 16 years - and I guess after 2,278 posts a person tires out. I also have some major health issues, my dogs have major health issues - and people who have been around as long asJoan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-14162928433161590832018-11-26T20:29:00.004-04:002018-11-26T20:56:38.883-04:00It is NEVER okay to steal someone's pets, okay?
I have been ruminating about this post for a week, feeling very helpless - just like the owner of three missing cats does.
Denise Bull - the owner of cats Keely, Willow and Esther had moved to Toronto to start a new life and was forced to leave her cats behind temporarily because her housing in Toronto was fragile and the place she was staying at was incompatible with the needs of her elderlyJoan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-7029579443785224252018-11-02T14:12:00.001-03:002018-11-02T14:12:39.869-03:00Evil walks amongst us - why? - because they were only given house arrest and probation for torturing a dog to death
Bethany MacLean - 22 years old - hid her husky puppy inside a kennel inside her car in Park Lane mall in Halifax - put a blanket over the kennel so no one could see that he was in there - and left him to starve to death inside that kennel. With the car doors unlocked. With an unopened bag of dog food inside the car. Where the dog could not access the dog food - because he wasJoan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-63513810550888256712018-10-03T17:19:00.000-03:002018-10-05T11:32:02.958-03:00The New Animal Protection Act has passed! And steps forwardSo last week Bill 27 -the new Animal Protection Act made it's way through the legislative process and was at the Law Amendments Committee after having passed first and second reading at the provincial legislature. At the Law Amendments Committee's first meeting though it hit a hiccup when nine breeders showed up to the committee to voice their concern about the proposed Act and they were Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-43471193409806557802018-09-18T22:39:00.000-03:002018-09-18T23:29:31.549-03:00The New Animal Protection Act has been halted - and animals are going to sufferThis is not the blog post that I wanted to write. When I started the post everything was sunshine and lollipop's - the minister of Agriculture was releasing a new and improved Animal Protection Act that would better serve the animals of Nova Scotia - who could have a problem with that? Well we woke up yesterday and realized that a certain demographic had a big problem with it - can Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-89752329740191412272018-03-28T02:09:00.001-03:002018-03-28T02:09:07.286-03:00Legislated rescue regulations are not going to be happening in Nova Scotia
This is not going to be a happy post. This post is going to have quite a bit of information so I hope the people interested in this kind of stuff reads reads this carefully.
This post is meant to shame an organization and I'm doing it on purpose because I believe that it's necessary because sometimes it needs to be done and when you are unhappy sometimes that is the way that things startJoan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-17105845408148725562018-03-21T20:01:00.003-03:002018-03-21T20:19:37.642-03:00Stellarton has shone a light on how vulnerable our dogs are here in Nova Scotia
This is a dog named Zeus - a dog who totally owned the balls of Lloyd Hines :)
If you were on Facebook in the last 24 hours you might have been angry at the town on Stellarton for a little while.
Last night they had on their website a new dog bylaw that was going to a 3rd reading and if it was passed they were going to have breed specific legislation in their town - specifically - if you Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-23023995510360441782018-02-16T15:04:00.001-04:002018-02-16T15:33:45.544-04:00Legal loophole for abusing dogs in Nova Scotia - let's close it!
We found out through a court case in Nova Scotia this week that it's actually legal to cause distress to a domestic animal because of a couple lines currently in the Animal Protection Act under the "Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" Section.
In there under Section 21(1) it says "No person shall cause an animal to be in distress - which is fabulous, but if you go to Section 21(4) it says "Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-79415912674007501322017-12-20T19:37:00.002-04:002017-12-20T19:38:46.937-04:00Is importing rescue dogs to Nova Scotia good or bad?There is probably no other hot button topic in the world of dog rescue than the issue of whether or not it's okay to import dogs from areas of the world where dogs aren't treated as well as we treat them here.
In order to bring a dog into Canada currently - all you need is a rabies certificate - they do not need to be quarantined, they do not need a health certificate, basically they don't need Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-89528256851061231202017-12-18T19:58:00.000-04:002017-12-18T19:58:54.151-04:00Nova Scotia bans the declawing of cats in January 2018
Nova Scotia is an interesting province - our population is only a little over 900,000 people - the whole population of Canada is less than the population of California - but here in Nova Scotia we have a lot of pride in the place that we live in.
Some people who don't live here may think that we are a backwards society since we seem to be living on the edge of North America - physically we Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-74259180252163470572017-12-12T20:19:00.000-04:002017-12-12T20:19:00.609-04:00Things seem to be moving in a positive direction for off-leash exercise in the HRM
If you didn't know - HRM City Council talked for quite awhile today about off leash parks today. Not for quite as long as they talked about orange flags at crosswalks - which they talked about FOREVER, but they talked about off leash parks for quite awhile - and good things were said, which is awesome.
And a 29 page staff report was made for the discussion - and it said positive things, Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-66405411237286331852017-12-06T17:20:00.003-04:002017-12-06T17:20:43.216-04:00Meeting a sloth is not a good thing!
I have to say that I was pretty horrified yesterday to see it pop up on my timeline in facebook the headline "Meet a sloth! Halifax - Diversity of Living Things" Hosted by Little Ray's Reptile Zoo - so I clicked on the link - which I am not going to provide because I don't want to give them any extra publicity for their event - and when I went to it I saw that indeed - they actually had a live Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-58119371550638627072017-12-05T20:23:00.002-04:002017-12-05T20:25:02.031-04:00Funny story - remember that time you left your dog in a locked, parked car by himself for 2 months?
Of course you don't remember - you aren't a psychopath who would let their dog starve to death, alone and abandoned in a car in a rarely used parkade in the middle of Halifax Nova Scotia.
But Bethany MacLean did - and she's now charged under section 445.1.1 (a) of the Criminal Code for willfully causing unnecessary suffering, or injury to an animal. MacLean was also charged under section 446 Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-59682152395281221842017-11-22T02:16:00.000-04:002017-11-22T10:25:20.043-04:00"How to Solve the Cat Crisis" - which crisis exactly are you talking about?
I went to a talk tonight at Saint Mary's University because I was interested in what was going to be talked about. It was advertised as "Responsible pet ownership - how to solve the cat crisis" - but when you read about it in some places it seemed like it was going to be a shit show about cats killing birds and it turns out that that was exactly about - "experts" talking about how many millionsJoan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732797.post-29207720719232271252017-11-15T18:58:00.001-04:002017-11-15T19:03:40.190-04:00Case in Calgary highlights the shortfalls on the Nova Scotia Justice system for animals
You may have noticed on your facebook timeline in the last day this picture of the 200 pound leonberger in Calgary who was being transported (illegally) on the flatbed of a trailer in Calgary. His owner has been charged with causing an animal to be in distress, transporting an animal outside the cab of a vehicle, and other charges.
This is fabulous, and I'm very happy to see this. Joan Sindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04457437859009705213noreply@blogger.com0