Garth joined the No Time to Paws family in October of 2019!  In the four months that he has been growing up with us he has lost his house mate Romeo but has made many new friends!   Welcome to the family Garth!!  Our first meeting with Garth ..read more

When we moved to Waterloo we were joined by our Maine Coon cat Romeo and our newly adopted dog Lucas, an 8 year old Shepherd mix.  Over the years that we have lived here the boys made many friends, and have been the faces of my home based business. Unfortunately, our fur babies don’t live for ever even though we wish they would!  In July of 2019 our dear old boy Lucas passed away, which was very hard on us.  Five short months later our beloved cat Romeo succumbed to his health struggles he was born with and passed away on New Year’s Eve.  We moved into 2020 without our boys, even though the ..read more

My heart is very heavy this afternoon…I just found out my friend Max passed away suddenly on Saturday ! Just goes to show how precious life is. I met this lovely guy about a year ago! For the longest time I was a kite, flitting behind him as we explored the neighbourhoods in his area. Craig and I liked to joke that he was like Inspector Clouseau….he was a comical boy, who loved to investigate every bush and telephone poll, he would without malice take out a flower bed with his antics or drag us into a tree, every walk he made us laugh ! I will miss how he greeted the other dogs he met , he w ..read more

The ‘Bucket List’ as we age we start to contemplate our mortality, ideas like ‘perhaps we may only have 35 more summers left’ cross our minds.  The concept that those things we have talked about doing, those places we have said we would like to visit, the musician that we absolutely have to see in concert, the recognition hits us that time is of the essence.  You come to the realization that the Trestle  bridge trail you wanted to hike, experienced a huge forest fire and was decimated, that the lead singer to your favourite group has taken his life, it becomes evident that we shouldn’t put of ..read more

The stairs have become my Mount Everest. My get up and go, comes in temporary bursts, my daily walks are more about the journey and less about the destination. The world has become a quiet place, not much disturbs my slumber these days but when it does , my bark is weak and hoarse. My eyes have become clouded, I loose my footing and falter frequently. Eating some days requires more effort than I care to expend, perhaps you could add a little incentive. I’d like to curl up at the end of the bed with you, but my legs have forgotten what they are supposed to do to aid me in my quest. Sleeping is ..read more

I was perusing Facebook this morning and was faced with a video of garbage….acres and acres of plastic that will not biodegrade.  I was feeling saddened by what we are doing to this planet, and yet I know I am part of the problem, I get take out coffee in a paper cup with a plastic lid when I could bring one of my many thermal ones in the cupboard.   Sure I recycle, but what I keep coming back to in my thoughts, is we have become on overtly disposable society!   We skip the dishes, we throw things to the curb without the thought that perhaps someone else could use that perfectly good coffee ta ..read more

“No if’s, and’s, or but’s about it, it is COLD outside!”   Our dog Lucas, hails from Thunder Bay, Ontario, he is used to a real winter.  Frankly when we moved South, he found the humidity in these parts, oppressive and hard to handle, he much prefers the climate to where he was born.   Lucas doesn’t really have a heavy fur coat, but it does the job and on truly frigid days I put on one of his coats.   We have been having a cold spell for the past eight days, -25 with the wind chill when it is blustery.   This real winter that we have been experiencing,  hasn’t seemed to phase my boy, he start ..read more

I had a rather thought provoking walk with my friend Newton last week.  We are having some work done at our house and my being away in the middle of the day to walk wasn’t conducive to the decisions that needed to be made with where to put a niche in the shower, the spacing for my pendant lights and all the other minute details.  Thankfully I have wonderfully flexible clients that allowed me to bring my girl friend to my house for the day…that way we got our walk, she had  her lunch and pee breaks and the bonus of buddies to hang with during the day and the contractors got their questions ans ..read more

I had some interesting thoughts this morning as Lucas, my spouse and I went for a pokey walk in the rain!   We were all rather soggy and slowly making our way back to the house…the first revelation my husband shared was that we had some how forgotten about day light savings time…I had been fussing that we were behind schedule, turns out that my timetable was perfectly intact and in fact we could meander.  We were in the home stretch and our lovely old pooch was moving so slowly, his need for a leash was rather futile, we decided we might as well allow him a little freedom.  He had just finish ..read more