Jonathan Guzzo

How do you spark your creativity? I like to do it by pulling myself out of my usual routine and putting my brain – and usually body – into new environments. I like to believe that this strips away the superficial and routine thought processes that I thought were important and forces me to focus more on the core matters …

Who needs eight tiny reindeer when you have six merry little doggos? That was the scene when the fam and I got together on Christmas day. Much to my mother’s dismay not one of her children brought any new grand-babies to the festivities this year but there was a large assortment of grand-puppies featuring some old and new faces. The …

Here’s a little life advice, throw your dog a birthday party. If for no other reason you could do it because throwing a party for your best friend is always the right and wonderful thing to do. However, there are so many other reasons to do it. But before we get to those let’s set up what a proper dog …

This is awful. By now most of us have seen the horrific footage aired by W5 last year of animals being experimented on and abused by employees of ITR Labs, a contract biotechnology research company located out in Baie-d’Urfé. The images are heart wrenching to say the least. Employees not only restraining animals and applying toxic substances to their skin …

Without a doubt, my favourite thing to do in my spare time is watching Netflix with my wife and our two majestic beagles. For those of you who feel the same I offer this two-fold piece of advice: the 2009 film Hachi: A Dog’s Tale is perhaps both the greatest and worst film to watch with your dog. You have …

It was a singularly unique moment in 2014 when, while driving back home to Montreal from New York city with my wife, I sent the following text to my brother-in-law Charles “Try luring him back with some cold cuts”. My sweetheart and I were spending the weekend in NYC and had left our little beagle cherubs with her family. Surely …

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been guilty of projecting a little human personality onto your dog, cat or guinea pig. For those of you with no hands in the air, welcome to Earth; I recommend pizza, Paris at night and Stranger Things while you are visiting us. For the rest of us this is a pretty natural reaction to …