She lives rurally which is why she is able to have such a large number of animals sharing her space. If she lived in an urban area she would be permitted at most to be able to license only three dogs to share her home with. As it is, she has ten, various breeds and sizes and temperaments. Most of them are rescue animals.

I was surprised when she said she had decided to take her huskie-German Shepherd mix, a rescue many years ago, from Iqaluit. He is the largest of her dogs, an emotional creature, loving to be noticed. She usually takes with her the boxer, a dog that was brutally mistreated, and whose reactions are sometimes really unpredictable. I might have thought for convenience sake she would take her 3-1/2-lb Pomeranian.

She sent along two links of videos resulting from her CTV studio appearance that had been posted on YouTube, and I watched them.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGNqb07x9M&list=UUOYxMz070f7jYMjoHk36dGA&index=2
 Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1t31McnDA&list=UUOYxMz070f7jYMjoHk36dGA

She had told me she'd had a really enjoyable time during the interview. That there had been a few occurrences backstage before filming began when she had put a nervous little dog, a companion to one of the hosts, at ease. The two hosts had brought along their own dogs with which they were experiencing behavioural issues, and she gave them advice.

She looked pretty well at ease. Her interlocutor seemed skilled at drawing interviewees out, making them comfortable, extracting for the viewing audience issues of interest to them. Her dog Jordy made himself right at home.

I thought it was a very good interview, that she had comported herself well and confidently. She told me that after filming had concluded and she had gone into a store en route back home, at the cash register another customer turned to her and complimented her on her appearance and advice to dog owners, that she had quite enjoyed it viewing the show.

How's that for instant feed-back?