My name is Bailey and I’m a dog. Last week I was getting ready to go to doggydo.org kennel while my humans went out of town when something happened to my eyes. My humans took me to the vet and we came home with pills, goo to put in my eyes and a cone on my head. I hate cones — I can’t see and am always getting stuck in doorways and on the stairs. But worst of all, my humans said I couldn’t go to doggydo! Then Bev and Melissa said no problem with the meds or cone so I got to go after all. My humans like doggydo because it’s clean, safe and reasonably priced. I love doggydo because I get to hang out with all the other dogs, chase balls and try out the the agility course. Thanks, Melissa and Bev, for taking such good care of me — I had a blast even with the dreaded cone on!On March 5, we returned home from a three-month holiday and 15 minutes later, our dog Danny was killed by someone at the end of Little River Road. I would like to say this to that person. Did it make you feel good to kill a little dog with your vehicle and leave him dead and bleeding on the road? Some good neighbour took Danny’s collar off, after he moved him off the road, then foundout from our vet who Danny belonged to. There are only four or five houses on that end of Little River Road. Could you not have asked who owned the dog? Thank you to Tom, Chris and the good neighbour, who we have not been able to thank, because we don’t know who he is yet.Last week, I had the culinary pleasure of being a customer of two excellent Comox Valley restaurants enjoying the special menus of Dine Around the Comox Valley. Courtenay's Atlas, always consistent and excellent, was exactly that. The three-course $35 menu was generous in size, flavour and eye appeal. I was even more impressed however with Martine's in Comox. The value of the $25 combinations was far better than expected. The food again was excellent and plentiful. I took home 'doggy' bags from both locales and, lucky for me, I don't have a dog.Thanks to the wonderfully honest individual who returned my purse to customer service at Thrifty's store in Courtenay. You reminded me again of why I love living in this Valley!Regarding the new hospital — the first site selection in Courtenay — 15 acres out past Crown Isle with an option for 10 more acres. It was a good site but shot down by Nav Canada for height restrictions. Someone didn't do their homework. The second site — 10 acres squeezed between the college and an elementary school. No room for expansion. The question is, the current hospital sits on 15.719 acres of land. How do you put a larger facility with better access and parking on a site that is only 60 per cent of the area covered by our current hospital? The answer to that question shoud be interesting to sa the least.