Why is it a dog that will go swimming in cold-ass ocean water will still fear the hose and more specifically a bath from said hose? I can’t understand it. Yes, I know that it’s a dog, not a qualified human, but still: it’s water, just the same. You get wet about the same. Hell, less actually from the hose. So what’s the big deal? You're less wet. I don’t get it.

And just so we’re clear, I’m talking about the Dumb One. The Smart One does not fear anything. He still don’t particularly like baths, but he puts up with it. Mostly because he absolutely LOVES the toweling-off afterwards.



And while we’re talking about dogs…
You may or may not recall a post many months back about Miles being rudely attacked by the neighbor’s mutt. Well shortly after, I noticed a wart on my Miles. Then a month or so after that, another was discovered.

Not long ago, Miles began having an excessively weepy Right Eye. He’s always had some measure of weepy eye, but this was kinda goopy instead of just teary, so I figured I’d try to clean it up and out and make it recover a bit faster. I noticed whilst doing this that at the back corner of his eye, he has developed… another wart. On his eyelid. Right there. Can’t miss it.

I’m beginning to think that these things aren’t old-age related as I had thought previously, but may in fact be linked to the dog bite he suffered. Maybe that mangy excuse for a family pet contaminated my Miles? Man, if he wasn’t dead already I’d kill ‘im. Frickin’ Frack, dammit! Sigh. I may have to get the venerable Miles into the vet to have a good ol’ look-see. I don't want him to become merely a collection of ugly bumps, you know?



And while we’re talking about dogs…
Michael Vick was sentenced to Death recently. OK no he wasn’t, he was sentenced to 23 months in Prison. I told the girl about it, and she wasn’t happy with that sentence herself; she feels it should be much more harsh.

But… I think it’s an adequate term. They are dogs, not people. Yes what he did was morally tragic & equally deplorable, but he’s going to be in prison for two years as punishment. Couple that with the public defacing of his image, and the lost job & also the ability to garner positive press which’ll lead to few – if any –endorsements, and I think he’ll have suffered a due amount.

I mean sure, I could demand more time, but I’m not cruel to animals myself now, c’mon.

Peace.

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