Slice of Life: Montreal, Canada

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Help take care of this lady's poor dogs... Refuge Pattes d'Ours is forty dogs, one dying furnace and the most stubborn woman in Hochelaga, in an old brick garage on rue Sainte-Catherine Est in Montreal. You have signed on for the winter. The manager runs on coffee and refuses to be thanked. The vet down the street works for free and pretends she doesn't. The groomer is the best goalie in the neighbourhood beer league. The poutine counter across the street stays open until three, and somebody keeps coming in to adopt and leaving with nothing. Snowstorms, a Christmas adoption drive, an outdoor rink, Igloofest at minus twenty-five, an ice storm and a sugar shack in March. Walk dogs, shovel snow, fall in love with a three-legged mutt or a person, and see if forty dogs can find homes before spring. A cosy, funny, bilingual Montreal slice of life with a big cast and a lot of fur.