I plan to nap today so I can stay up and listen to all the BS coverage of election results tonight. I know it will happen without me, but I’m still interested. Others here at the barndo are concerned about the results too. The new puppy is supporting the candidate that will “make injured dog ears great again.”
My #1 priority in life right now is perfecting a routine that allows me to sleep — like a normal night of sleep. My Oura ring said today it thinks I’ll pull through, but I’m not as confident. 😉
My #1 hope is that we don’t have civil unrest no matter which candidate wins, and the saturation of political information and disinformation — on both sides — will go away.
The visit to the vet was revealing…
I thought this dog was 2 or 3 months old and had been dumped a week or two before he found me. Probably not the case per the vet. According to his teeth, he’s 5-6 months old already and was likely starved by the owner prior to dumping.
Once he gains 6 pounds, he can be considered UNDERWEIGHT. I held him on the scale to get a weight the night he came here, and again before our appointment. One of us gained right at 2 pounds over the weekend — it could’ve been either… or both of us contributing to that number.
Our vet said they’d treated one case worse than this fella in his career and it had to be euthanized. 😞
Now that we know he’s going to be fine, we’re seriously thinking about names. Although the name “Lucky” is fitting, Katie already has a 3-legged cat with that name. We were closing in on the name “Jack” (as in Jack Skellington), but there were 2 male dogs in the vet’s waiting room with that same name. Hopefully by tomorrow we’ll have something to call him instead of “puppy,” “dog,” and “Buddy.”
Now you know: A group of engineering students from Purdue University built a licking machine to learn that it took 364 licks to get the the center of a tootsie pop. A conflicting mechanical licker built by a University of Michigan student took 411 licks. When licked manually, studies have taken 144-252 licks.