By most accounts, Sask Party MLA Mark Docherty was a decent dude.
I know I always enjoyed my interactions with him – when he would come to the library I was working at for events or programs or when I would bump into him at community events or whatever.
Given his background and resume, I’ve even heard him called “The best candidate the NDP never had” (I’ve also heard there’s a story behind why he ran for the Sask Party instead of NDP but isn’t there always a story?) 😉
I also met with him and his assistant ahead of the “Drop Everything and Read” protests after the Sask Party unsuccessfully targeted public libraries with severe budget cuts in 2017. (Funny story – my main memory of that meeting was reassuring his assistant that it wouldn’t be violent protesters throwing bricks through windows; instead it would be books read on walkways!)
It starts with getting our dog from a breeder instead of a rescue. (Cue middle class progressive guilt.)
He has a custom made golden name tag with all his relevant info.
He also has an Air Tag in a custom holder on his collar.
Probably the first (and worst?) sign that he was going to be a bougie dog was when we bought him Himalayan Yak Cheese to gnaw on soon after we got him based on the recommendation of one of Shea’s coworkers. Himalayan Yak Cheese? C’mon!
All of us have stayed away from his kennel in the living room because “Charlie is sleeping.”
Instead of “Regular”, we bought him “Kiwi Blossom” scented shampoo.
We have bought him treats that sound better than some of the food I eat.
We bought him a costume at Halloween.
He got his own stocking at Christmas. (In our feeble defence, we did not sink to having his name embroidered on it.)
Did I mention he has a monthly subscription that delivers toys and treats to our door called “Woof Pack”? I mean, who are we?!?
Bought Charlie a fifty foot leash and it’s a great way to take advantage of the huge green space behind our house and let him basically be “off-leash” without actually being off-leash (now if we could convince the various other dog owners that use the space that it’s not actually an off-leash park, that would be great!)
Not sure how I stumbled upon this but poking around my Gmail account recently (which I have used since day one as my secondary account for entering contests, subscribing to newsletters I’ll never read and generally trying to target spam there so rarely look at it), I found the first message I ever sent to that account. And the HUGE attachment I included? It got cut off in my screencap but it was a 4mB MP3 file! 😉
We got the first delivery of 
