Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

No one could have predicted…

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So my sister started fostering dogs, and no one could have predicted that the second dog she fostered she would end up keeping:

That is Kiwi, who they think is part boxer and who is 100% adorable. She was going to show him to three possible homes, but couldn’t tear herself away and got sick every time she thought of giving her up for adoption. For those of you counting that is now 14 pets in the collective Cole households.

Not to be outdone, my friend Tammy, who you all know best as Samantha’s owner, has adopted another Morkie:

That is a very happy Tammy with her newest addition.

*** Update ***

Tams sends along another picture. Apparently the piglets already love each other:

Is there anything nicer than people who love their pets and the pets who love them back?

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182Comments

  2. 2.

    Steeplejack

    Morkie = Yorkie + ?

    ETA: Maltese. When will I learn to just go to the Google in the first place?

  8. 8.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I’m with your sister. That dog wouldn’t have made it a day in my house without the decision to keep her.

    I’ve been feeling guilty about all the travel, so I bought the cats some fresh fish. They turned themselves inside-out for it and now are following me around everywhere. Evidently they think I’m a fresh fish vending machine.

  9. 9.

    Teacherboy

    John, my wife and I foster animals for the Humane Society, and we ended up keeping one of our animals (a cat named Wayne). They mostly jokingly called us ‘failed foster parents’. It happens.

  10. 10.

    jacy

    That is why I can’t foster anything. Pretty soon I would have to make all the people move out of the house and I’d end up featured on the Discovery Channel.

    But Kiwi is very squeeeeee-worthy. What a cutie!

  13. 13.

    madmommy

    Kiwi is adorable! Always wanted a boxer, and ended up with a lab and a hound mix instead.

    Though I don’t comment often, it has been great being able to read all the posts and comments this week in real time while I’m at home recovering from surgery-though occasionally laughing out loud has been not so pleasant!

  14. 14.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Teacherboy: Two of my Great Danes were brothers I was suppose to be fostering. I knew they were mine the moment I opened the car door and let them hop in. Sometimes you just know.

    And one of my cats was part of a litter I fostered. But in my defense, he decided to stay. He made it very clear he wasn’t leaving.

  15. 15.

    JenJen

    Since this is a semi-open thread, and so what if it isn’t, please, everyone, best thoughts, vibes and intentions to the Midwest and Southeast tonight. This tornado outbreak has been horrific. I’ve lived in Cincinnati most of my life and can’t recall a day that matched this, where they made it known that they weren’t fucking around and the tornado warnings were serious this time. I got a little freaked out myself. They called the tornado watch a “PDS Tornado Watch.” As in, Particularly Dangerous Situation. I’d never heard of such a tornado watch before today.

    We escaped it, but some of the surrounding rural areas in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana have been devastated. I’ve been listening to 700 WLW all day (wingnutty but their news coverage has been stellar today) and the phone calls alone have been harrowing. People still trapped in homes. Emergency crews can’t enter the areas. Pets floating in the Ohio River. I’m just heartbroken.

  16. 16.

    Anne Laurie

    Given Kiwi’s coloring, John, I’d suggest your sister should call him a “Great Dane mix”, at least when talking to landlords, her neighbors, or insurance agents. It’s probably even true. There are more ‘Boston’ or ‘domino’ Danes than piebald boxers, and Danes have a much better reputation than that other much-maligned breed we’re not naming…

  17. 17.

    Little Boots

    @JenJen:

    it is, I’ve been hearing about it all day. ugh. glad you’re safe, but you’re right. it sucks all around.

  18. 18.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Dustmops! Umm… I mean PUPPIES!! Furry things are just cute, there’s no two other ways about it.

    Just don’t pet a bear.

    Our newest family member, Stewie, got his first bath today. My wife and I survived without a scratch and while he didn’t like it at first he accepted that it was inevitable and was a good little kitteh. We’ve been battling fleas on him since he arrived and I wanted to wait until he was about four months old (today) to give him his first bath.

    He’s happy (and fluffy!), the other two cats are just as squeaky clean, the fleas are decimated, bedding has been completely sterilized, the carpets/floors are clean. Oh, and we started it all with a preemptive strike the day before yesterday: bug bombs. All I have to do is clean our windows and spring cleaning is done for me!

    The flea problem was fairly minor but the ones on him were particularly tenacious. We tried the good stuff and a few other things but they clung to him.

    But they can’t swim in flea shampoo. :)

  20. 20.

    Mark S.

    This cracked me up:

    Now, having not fought since December 2010, he’s back for a shot at Klitschko. Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO) has less than zero chance to win this fight, so I’m not going to bullshit you and try to figure out some way that maybe he could pull this off. Unless Wladimir Klitschko breaks his back throwing a right hand and has to quit due to injury,

    Hold the phone! That sounds like a path to victory.

  21. 21.

    RedKitten

    GAH! Doggies! And a mini-Samantha, named Charlie!

    I’m dead. I died from the cute. Please tell Tammy that I envy her fiercely for her adorable furry companions.

  22. 22.

    Jenn

    @JenJen: Yeah, y’all have it (my prayers and good wishes, that is), alright. I’ve just been reading some of the articles about it. Glad you and yours are safe and sound.

  24. 24.

    Origuy

    Why online voting systems are not ready for production.

    In 2010 the Washington DC election board announced it had set up an e-voting system for absentee ballots and was planning to use it in an election. However, to test the system, it invited the security community and members of the public to try and hack it three weeks before the election.
    …
    The [University of Michigan] team altered all the ballots on the system to vote for none of the nominated candidates. They then wrote in names of fictional IT systems as candidates, including Skynet and (Halderman’s personal favorite) Bender for head of the DC school board. They also set up systems so that any further ballots would come under their control.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    @Little Boots:

    Always a good choice.

    It is raining outside my window right now. Up here on the eighth floor, I don’t usually hear it unless it is coming down fairly strong.

  31. 31.

    dr. bloor

    Kiwi appears to have been drawn by a four year old, which is to say she is quite adorable. Your sister has scored quite a deal–a great new family member and mega-karma points.

  32. 32.

    Wonkie

    Kiwi is a pitbull.

    That is to say, if that dog ever moves to Denver she will be euthanized.

    There are three kinds of pit bulls: American Pitbull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers and smooth coated dogs with floppy ears that might or might not be partly APT or AmStaff. Or partly boxer. Or Dalmatian. Or just about anything, but probably part pit since pits are one of the most common dogs in America. Kiwi is one of those which means that she and her owners will be the target of breed prejudice, whether she actally has any real pit in her or not.

    I point this out, not to make an argument, but because “passing” as a boxer mix, while a valid survival strategy for this particular dog, doesn’t help all the other dogs that will be the targets of breed prejudice.

    I understand the desire to label the pit or pitmix as something else. We do it all thetime at our rescue kennel where I volunteer. Typically we call the black ones lab mixes and the big brindle ones mastiff or boxer mixes. The big brown ones get called chocolot lab mixes if they are really big and boxer mixes if the are smaller.We’ve never tried to pass off a black and white one as a boxer, though.T

    It’s really sad that wonderful loving dogs have to be labeled to avoid breed prejudice. EWspecially since the lable willnot guarnatee protection from prejudice.

    Rereading this I can see that I have implied that Kiwi’s humans are deliberatley disguing her as a boxer mix. I didn’t mean to imply that. I meant to make two points: one, it could be in the best interests of the dog to label her as something other than pit, but secondly that in the best interests of pits it is better to fight the prejudice.

    It’s a dilemna.

  35. 35.

    phantomist

    Northern Michigan (index finger nail). 32 degrees, thunder and lightning. 20-30 mile/hour winds. Gigantic 2″ snow flakes. 10-14 inches expected. Crazy beautiful.

  36. 36.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    Now this post is balm for my ornery soul. The Morkie is a doll, and Tammy is gorgeous. And Kiwi melts the heart.

    Charlie just had his Alpo Hash. I made the mistake of giving him some a couple months ago, and along about this time, he wants his nightly treat, and pesters me till I remember to hand it over.

  41. 41.

    Anne Laurie

    @Teacherboy:

    They mostly jokingly called us ‘failed foster parents’.

    Better than being the fvcked foster parents, which is how we (mostly as a joke) refer to our status as the “just for a couple weeks until we can find an adequate situation” rescue dog Gloria. We took her in because she’d started attacking her certified fosters’ older, smaller dogs and the alternative offer from the original shelter was “we won’t charge you for her euthanasia”. Various representatives from the breed-rescue group at the local, state, regional, and national levels managed to Not Respond to our increasingly plantive emails & phone messages, and after a couple months it was clear that Gloria was all our problem now. We don’t regret it, mostly. Nor does Gloria, usually…

  42. 42.

    Comrade Mary

    What a mix of a night. Horrible news for all those caught in that evil weather (Toronto is just getting high winds and that’s it). I hope it doesn’t get any worse.

    Kiwi is absolutely gorgeous and I can see why she would be so hard to give up. I guess that’s the risks of fostering. The SF writer Peter Watts has claimed that this , an ad for a rescued cat he was fostering, was his best ever piece of writing.

    Sadly, Banana died this week, and not well. Watts honours him here.

  43. 43.

    JPL

    My grand baby is a maltese. My son adopted her when she was two and Miss Moxie and I love when she comes over to visit. BTW her name is nona..cuz..the vet named her noname since it took my son so long to choose the perfect name. It’s the perfect name.

  44. 44.

    Little Boots

    @Steeplejack:

    It’s bizarre. I love the Doors, but I just do not love Light My Fire. I don’t know why. I know i should, but I just don’t.

  47. 47.

    Villago Delenda Est

    OK, this is typical, but yes, your sister is much more attractive than you, John. With or without the puppy.

  48. 48.

    Little Boots

    @JPL:

    I know. I get it. I should, but I love every other Doors song so much more.

    it’s me. I get that. I accept that.

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Doing okay. Left the bookstore in December, had a big birthday milestone (six-oh!) in January. Bought a car (finally), drove down to Atlanta last month for a one-week visit that stretched to three. Have some money and freelance gigs lined up to get me through the next few months, so for the moment I am concentrating on getting healthy, rearranging the man-cave and figuring out what is the next stage of evolution.

    You? I know you have become a superstar at ABL’s place, but what else? Still keeping weird hours, I think?

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    @Little Boots:

    That’s okay. For me it’s an epochal, apes-dancing-around-the-monolith-in-2001 thing because it hit me like lightning when it first came out.

  54. 54.

    Jenn

    @Wonkie: Yeah, the prejudice against pitbulls (and their lookalikes) is a shame. Some of the very best dogs I’ve ever had the pleasure to know were pits – when they’re loved, socialized, and trained. Though really, the “loved, socialized, and trained” bit applies to every dog! Laws like the one you’re referring to in Denver are painful to even contemplate. Another reason to hate on irresponsible dog owners, spoiling things for everyone else.

  56. 56.

    Little Boots

    @Jenn:

    last place I lived before this, my neighbor had the sweetest most affectionate pit bull ever, used to run downstairs and jump onto the couch whenever I was on it. sweetest dog ever.

  57. 57.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Day-um! So much has been happening for you! I hope that your next stage of life is exciting and fulfilling.

    Me, I’m posting fiction at two places: http://www.osborneink.com and deadshuffle.blogspot.com, trying to get a handle on my own freelancing business so I can move to NE Minneapolis within a year, started the sword form in tai chi, and yes, still keeping weird hours. asiangrrlMN time, as I call it. For instance, I’m thinking of what I should have for lunch!

    P.S. I don’t particularly care for Light My Fire, either.

    P.P.S. Sweetest dog I’ve ever known was a pit.

  58. 58.

    JPL

    I live in GA and thankfully it seems like there is no serious damage. Can the local stations just accept that and move along. I have an antenna and there has not been regular broadcasting since 8 tonight. Do I sound like a whiner…well yes.

  61. 61.

    Jewish Steel

    Heaven forfend should Mum and Dad both be called home to their creator my house would swell from 3 to 10 dogs. Mostly fosters rescues.

    Dad’s Irish Wolfhounds would probably eat us out of house and home.

  66. 66.

    Jeffro

    Why does Jim Morrison’s voice annoy me while The Cult (w/ Ian Astbury) is such a fave? It’s just weird.

  69. 69.

    trex

    @Little Boots

    My Dad lives in Harrisville and was talking about that storm coming on the heels of getting dumped on by last week’s snow. Whereabouts are you?

  70. 70.

    Little Boots

    @trex:

    Madison, wisconsin.

    truth is, we’ve been pretty spoiled this winter, but this weekend is a lot of snow.

  73. 73.

    Devon cole

    @Wonkie: I love your post and could not agree more. I can see pit or American bull dog, or boxer. I didn’t know boxers couldn’t be black and white? She uses her paw/hands so, so much, she initiates all play with her paws, silences her badly foster bro, lil’ bear, with a smack of the paw to the nose, and grabs my cheeks with a paw on either side to lick my face. That’s what made me think that. I just don’t know what she is. She was from a high kill shelter with no knowledge about her parents. I love pit bulls and would be happy to tell people that she is one, because she would be a fantastic ambassador for the breed. Maybe a doggie DNA test is in order. I do know for sure that she is good, sweet little baby. :)

  79. 79.

    Steeplejack

    @Little Boots:

    That’s a good one. Now give me “Crystal Ship.”

    Hell, their whole first album is awesome. Although I was never a big fan of “The End.”

  86. 86.

    Little Boots

    oh, don’t take me seriously, devon, just something about her body is black with brindle made me say that.

  89. 89.

    Steeplejack

    @Little Boots:

    Oh, no, you di’nt.

    ETA: And did you give me “Crystal Ship”? No, you did not. I will sit here and thrum my fingers. You hear me? Thrum!

  93. 93.

    Jenn

    I’m not sure which thread or who it was who directed me to Peter Watts’ website at rifters.com, but thank you. Not that his post on Banana didn’t cause me to start crying in the middle of Starbucks. My barista buds are all, “jenn, you ok?” “yeah, I’m fine,” I snuffle. But great writing, and Banana was an awesome cat!

  94. 94.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Oh, jeez. Had to go full-screen for that, causing the lights to dim in the whole building. Back in a few. Must go worship the goddess.

  101. 101.

    catclub

    @Origuy: Wow.

    At least they had the humility to let the real experts
    test it first. Why do I think it is not Diebold.

  102. 102.

    trollhattan

    @Devon cole:

    Luckily enough, This Very Site’s Betty Cracker is the expert in all things boxer. She might offer some opinionating.

    My expertise is limited to opining Kiwi is an endearing bundle of gangly legs, pancake paws and a cockeyed head. Whoever assembled this cute li’l critter could have added some extra parts. Rubbery puppehs are rubbery.

  104. 104.

    catclub

    @Comrade Mary: Just remember that all this weird weather, now going on for the past two years solid, has nothing to do with global climate change.

    I think it is pronounced ‘nassingk’, as Sgt Schultz did on Hogan’s Heroes. ‘I know nassingk.’

  108. 108.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    WTF?! My previous–innocuous–comment on Tennie Harris and Booker Ervin got dropped into moderation. Could it be because the letters tit appeared in a URL? For shame.

    Anyway: Booker Ervin, “Stolen Moments.” Too bad I couldn’t find “Gichi” or “In a Capricornian Way.”

  109. 109.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @John Cole:

    I was wondering too, just thought I’d read the comments for the answer. I’ve got a YorkiePom aka Yoranian; Yorkie and Pomeranian mix.

  125. 125.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Booker or Ervin? And WTF?

    ETA: Booker? Seriously? What is wrong with that? And don’t tell me it’s some bullshit Urban Dictionary thing.

  126. 126.

    Little Boots

    You know I admire you, John, right?

    I just say that, because apparently we’re supposed to not like each other.

    I went from right to left, but so very secretly, and you did that in public. which i really do admire. it could not have been easy.

    (not actually talking points, steeplejack. are we enemies?)

  127. 127.

    sfinny

    Busting in to say that the update picture, with both of Tammy’s puppies, is the best thing I’ve seen all week. Second was the picture of Kiwi, all gangly and leaning to the side. These are the times when I seriously wish I could have a dog.

  128. 128.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Nice one. Although I have become so indoctrinated that I find myself thinking, “Why doesn’t she look more like Jennifer Lopez?”

  129. 129.

    Steeplejack

    @Cole:

    Is there anything nicer than people who love their pets and the pets who love them back?

    Yes, when the people are beautiful, photogenic blondes. SATSQ.

  131. 131.

    asiangrrlMN

    ::blink blink:: When did that third picture show up? I swear it wasn’t there when I first opened this thread. It’s a great picture of Tammy and the pups! So glad everyone is getting along.

  132. 132.

    Anne Laurie

    @Wonkie:

    Rereading this I can see that I have implied that Kiwi’s humans are deliberatley disguing her as a boxer mix. I didn’t mean to imply that. I meant to make two points: one, it could be in the best interests of the dog to label her as something other than pit, but secondly that in the best interests of pits it is better to fight the prejudice.

    Well, to be perfectly honest, there are a lot of pit-boxer mixes out there — the monsters looking for ‘fight dogs’ wanted the longer boxer legs & pushed-in muzzle, I’ve been told. And some of us, frankly, would rather deal with a random pitbull than a random boxer, all apologies to LitlBrit, Betty Cracker & any other BJ Boxer people, because the average boxer combines a very high pain threshold with, shall we say, not a border-collie-level of new-information acquisition. One can never tell for sure with a young puppy, but I’m still guessing there’s some Great Dane in Kiwi’s multivariate ancestry.

  135. 135.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    @Punchy:

    Has any 1st Lady ever gotten knocked up while her husband was Prezznit?

    I was wondering the same thing just the other day.

  137. 137.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: I could fault you, but the fact is Jennifer pretty much channeled her for the movie. And it sucks because Selena was gonna be a HUGE crossover sensation.

  139. 139.

    Anne Laurie

    @Devon cole:

    She uses her paw/hands so, so much, she initiates all play with her paws, silences her badly foster bro, lil’ bear, with a smack of the paw to the nose, and grabs my cheeks with a paw on either side to lick my face.

    Wow, Great Danes (and Afghan Hounds) are the only dogs I’ve ever known to do that “I take your face to kiss you” gesture! Both are classified as sight hounds… when Kiwi’s tracking something, does she tend to hold her nose to the ground, or does she hold her head high and air-scent?

  140. 140.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    Is there anything nicer than people who love their pets and the pets who love them back?

    Oh man, that photo is beyond wonderful. And no, there isn’t anything nicer.

  142. 142.

    Anne Laurie

    @Devon cole:

    Oh, and her body is black with brindle. Not pure black.

    So, the Dane people would call her coloring ‘tiger brindle’ instead of ‘boston’ / ‘domino’…

  144. 144.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: ::happy sigh:: I could watch that over and over and over again (and I have, believe you me). A Twitter peep saw Rickman on Broadway and sent me a pic of the poster. I told him I hated him. He said I would have loved it. I said that’s why I hated him.

  146. 146.

    Martin

    @Punchy: Yep, 2. Grover Cleveland. More notably, and I’m always surprised more people don’t know this – Jackie and John had a premature baby (Patrick) who died a few days after birth.

  148. 148.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Night-night. I had a tiring day, and I’m eager to try out the new foam mattress topper on the Steep sleepatorium. Hope that it will revitalize my probably played-out mattress.

  149. 149.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Did he put up Texas? He put up Texas didn’t he? Sheesh. Just when you think you know a fella he goes and pulls a stunt like this. Where’s mah bumbershoot? I’m outtie. :)

  156. 156.

    freelancer

    @Little Boots:

    @Yutsano:
    don’t encourage him.
    he’s annoying.

    You weren’t here last night for a freshman-at-life who went by the name of blogreeder.

  157. 157.

    Violet

    @Devon cole:
    Kiwi is adorable. So cute. Looks like a wonderful addition to your family.

    Tammy’s gorgeous. She’s so photogenic she looks like she could be a model. And her puppies are so cute.

  161. 161.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    Thank you for this thread, senor Cole. I take back all the mean things I’ve said about you. You are a one good dude;

  165. 165.

    freelancer

    @Little Boots:

    I know you’re teasing. Steep is a like-minded bud. Anybody asiangrrl is cool with or faux married to is cool with me. Read down this shit to see how we deal with actual dum-dums.

    Yeah, I’ll say it. I was in rare form last night.

  166. 166.

    Yutsano

    @freelancer: You certainly was. I found myself guffawing at work over you. I almost had to turn my phone off I was chortling so much!

  172. 172.

    Little Boots

    john cole should wake up and we should all babble about politics until dawn.

    but I think we will not.

  174. 174.

    Anne Laurie

    @Jenn:

    actually my aussies do that all the time. Very dextrous paws!

    Thanks. Very dextrous dogs, Aussies — too much dog for a lazy couch potato like me, which I know because my personal Dog Guru back in the midwest does Aussie/Border/Sheltie rescue. I like my Papillons because they’re smart, but not as achievement-oriented as your guys (and they’re little enough to mostly exercise themselves in a fenced yard; also, they don’t challenge our cats).

    For my sins, of course, the Chaos God “gifted” us with Gloria, our accidental rescue, who is almost certainly half-Pap and half Border Collie. (Yes, people do that, on purpose, and as Dog Guru said, “It’s like building a loaded pistol into a pretty pink iPod case.”) Gloria looks like a half-sized border collie, she’s scary-smart and scary-fast, and she “works” like a proper herding dog with her head down & her tail at half-mast. Unfortunately, whatever trauma she experienced during the five years before she was picked up by the police & re-homed also left her dangerously untrustworthy around anything that might be food and highly suspicious of strangers, children, other dogs, new situations, etc. If she were younger, or if she hadn’t responded so happily to living with our ‘pack’, I’d have tried harder to find a working (agility or obedience) household for her. As it is, she’s seven-and-half now, she hasn’t seriously tried to bite anybody for some months, and I figure a quiet life with people who put up with her ‘issues’ is better than the euthanasia, anyways…

  176. 176.

    Face

    Tammy is teh hawttay, and at the risk of angering Mr. Cole, Id suggest he maybe pursue that. Unless he’s more inclined to pursue her boyfriend. And theres nothing wrong with that.

  178. 178.

    Jenn

    @Anne Laurie: Wow, now that is an interesting combination! Have you posted pics? I must have missed them. Bless you for taking Gloria in – one of my friends fosters full time, and her life revolves around an endless cycle of puppy raising, housetraining, and behavior modification. I admire the heck out of her, but I’d never be able to do it. My rescue has issues from neglect and abandonment (fort, doesn’t appear he was ever beaten), but is working through most of them. The longest haul will be dealing with his leash reaction – so much better than he used to be, but a long way left to go!

  180. 180.

    Anne Laurie

    @Jenn: Yeah, I probably couldn’t deal with being a “proper” foster either, especially since the Spousal Unit’s susceptibilities reinforce my own worst traits. We really, truly only planned to board Gloria for a few days, maybe a week or so, especially since the breed-rescue group theoretically responsible for her had once rejected us as adoptive “parents”. But she settled in really, really well with us… and she really wouldn’t have been (probably never will be) trustworthy in a less sedate home. Adopting rescues-with-issues is our karma compromise — besides The Dog Who Bites, we live with The Dog Who Runs Away, the Dog Who’s Terrified of Everything, and two elderly ex-feral cats.

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