Alberta canine adored for 'wonky face' to be united with his doppelgänger dog
CBC
An Alberta dog adored for his decidedly unusual looks is set to be united with his canine doppelgänger.
Brodie, a German shepherd-border collie mix whose unique face has earned him social media fame, will soon have a new playmate at his home in Red Deer, Alta. — a rescue dog from Houston, Texas, with similar facial deformities.
Brodie — who has close to 600,000 followers on Instagram and nearly 3,000 more on Facebook — has what his owner Amanda Richter describes as a "wonky face."
His snout curves wildly. One eye bulges from its socket. His tongue lolls lazily from his crooked jaw.
Brodie was bitten on the head by his mother as a puppy, leaving him with facial injuries and a partially blind eye.
"He looks a little like Quasimodo from The Hunchback mixed with the hyena from The Lion King," Richter said.
"I always say he looks like a Picasso masterpiece."
Ritcher figured Brodie was one of a kind. So she couldn't believe it when she stumbled across his look-alike a few weeks ago on the Facebook page for an animal shelter in Houston.
Raven, a female German shepherd mix with a curved snout, crooked smile and loose tongue, just like Brodie, had been put up for adoption.
Ritcher is adopting the dog and now working to bring the animal to her new home in Alberta.
She is keen to give a good life to Raven, who was likely born with her unusual facial features.
"I believe everything happens for a reason," she said. "This dog was meant to cross my path and cross my screen."
Brodie has been Richter's "best boy" for more than three years.
She and her partner, Brad Ames, adopted him from a shelter in Ponoka, Alta., in September, 2019.
New government regulations can be hard to get excited about — but not if you're a drone pilot like Ian Wills.
Alberta RCMP have ramped up the use of body-worn cameras for front-line officers as a push is underway to have 90 per cent of the national police force use the cameras within the coming year.
This weekend, one of the season's first strong winter storms is coming for Newfoundland and Labrador.
Periods of snow are forecast to start overnight in western Cape Breton before a winter wallop moves into the rest of the island and part of mainland Nova Scotia on Sunday.
Four new cases of measles in Quebec have been confirmed as of Jan.3 in connection with an outbreak that began in December, public health authorities say.
A vacant three-storey apartment block is set to be demolished, after Winnipeg firefighters were called Friday night to the third fire at the Mountain Avenue building since August 2023.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in the waters of a Port Moody, B.C., marina on New Year's Day.
Parts of Prince Edward Edward Island could receive up to 15 centimetres of snow Sunday and into Monday.
A Liberal MP from London, Ont., is joining several of his caucus colleagues in publicly calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign as leader of the party — and he says the number of Liberals who want Trudeau to step down will likely get even bigger.
U.S. President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the U.S., to Canadian actor Michael J. Fox and others on Saturday.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre gave a lengthy interview to psychologist and media personality Jordan Peterson, touching on his vision for Canada and how he plans to implement it.