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Our Best Friends - Newsletters

Our Best Friends comes out quarterly. The older newsletters are offered in HTML format, and the newer versions are available in PDF format.

Note: Newsletter articles may be reprinted with acknowledgement of source.

2005 Content Summary

Winter Issue

In this issue:

  • Why the "Year of the Cat"?
  • Cat back home after three months
  • Cat triathlete!
  • The dog that walks me
  • OHS feral cat program
  • Exercise and your dog
  • How many cats is too many?
  • Volunteer round-up
  • Viscount Adoption Project's next steps
  • Auxiliary update
  • Leaving a lasting legacy to the animals
  • A day in the life of an EAPS officer

Fall Issue

In this issue:

  • Tomorrow's Animals
  • OHS releases position on palliative care
  • 2004 - 2005 AGM Report
  • Letters
  • Sex and the single cat
  • OHS website a wealth of information!
  • Humane Education update
  • Caring for senior pets
  • Volunteer round-up
  • Community kudos
  • Special Events
  • Dear Pumpkin
  • The most common form of animal neglect?

Summer Issue

In this issue:

  • Working together for the animals
  • OHS awards honour dedicated volunteers
  • Restructured phone system
  • Earning a hamster
  • New home for Zorro
  • Dear kitty, please stay home!
  • Humane Education update
  • Auxiliary update
  • 17th Annual Walkathon in September
  • Dear Pumpkin
  • Taking stock in the OHS
  • Summer heat and your pet

Spring

In this issue:

  • Space - the final frontier!
  • OHS launches adult pet education pilot
  • Inaugural Fur Ball Gala a smashing success
  • Media boost cat adoptions
  • Ontario Pit Bull Ban
  • "Citizen Cat"
  • Pets and pesticides
  • Volunteer round-up
  • Auxiliary update
  • 6th Annual golf tournament
  • Hearts broken when found cat not returned