Student residence going to the dogs (and cats)

Unique partnership between a university housing program and the SPCA allows students to take in foster pets The 2008 version of Animal House is the real deal: less beer, more kibble. Unlike the raunchy and rambunctious human cast of the three-decade-old National Lampoon campus comedy, the raciest antics of the four-legged cast of Mount Allison University's Animal House include chasing their own tails and nibbling on house plants. In what is believed to be a unique partnership with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in nearby Moncton, the Sackville, N.B., university opened up a new student residence this fall that provides a foster home for pets awaiting adoption. Eight students take care of Daisy, a lovable American Eskimo dog who freely roams the top two floors of the house; Dahlia, an independent... [read full story]