Author: Elspeth Duncan

As mentioned in some articles, I am working on a film, Charlotteville Tails. On a recent visit to Charlotteville, I encountered a brown female street dog with a wounded left ear. She is hard to miss – old and sad-looking, lying around, her head leaning to one side under the weight of her infected ear. […]

In a January 16 Newsday article entitled Rowley bids media farewell: Please don’t forget me, Dr Keith Rowley recounts how, on visiting his Goodwood Park home, a book he won as a boy in a public speaking contest in Tobago fell off the shelf. Unfortunately, the article did not state the book’s title, but I […]

If a group of burly police officers in dark uniforms, brandishing guns, barged onto personal premises, even the oldest, least aggressive pothound would bark and most likely advance toward them. Dogs are naturally territorial, protective beings. Unless trained to be aggressive, the average dog (mainly domesticated and bred for companionship, work or service) will not […]

Whenever I hear the FireOne Fireworks motto – “Let’s make positivity louder” – I cringe at its audacious inaccuracy. While, unfortunately, the “louder” part is spot on, how could the following ever be “positive” – nationwide trauma to animals, loss and death of animals, loss of livelihood for livestock and poultry farmers (eg the latter […]

Whenever I drive past the new airport terminal in Crown Point, the largely glass edifice looks bigger than it did the day before. Being an advocate for animals, and often viewing or hearing the surrounding world through their eyes or ears, I wonder about the fatal impact the expansive glass frontage will have on birds. […]