Omg I’m dying
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I remember that back when tinsel was a thing. Thank goodness it went out of style. Vets are probably relieved. 
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Amen. Cats looked like they had comets out their butt through the New Year
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Oh lord that anal gland smell. yikes and 
Last week I was petting Baler while I was in bed and he was purring up a storm and making the little happy taill shake when I heard pfft…I wondered what it was for about half a second then the smell hit me. Oh yes, that’s what I want to do in the middle of the night - wash my bedspread and wipe stank cat butt. Why, what else did I have better to do?
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That’s strange. He looks too intelligent to do anything like that. 
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Addiction is a strange thing 
The Lure of the Plastic was strong 
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“You know you love me …
& it’s your job to clean up anything that comes out of me.
Either end” 
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Yep. No getting around the disgusting critters 
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I had a cocker spaniel who was diagnosed late in life with Cushing. I was treating him and the initial phase was to treat to decreased appetite and drinking. I came home one day and into the house to a stench that was no way it could be good. He had had an episode of diarrhea. Bless his heart, he went in the bathroom. The ONLY floor surface in the house that did not have carpet.
I think we hit that goal of treatment. Either he had or I was going to euthanize as he had quit eating and drinking. Happy to report he had reached his goal and the maintenance dosing once a week did not make him sick. How did he know to go in the bathroom? He had a dog door and could have gone outside but I think it must had hit him pretty suddenly.
I have also had a little beagle that for some reason liked to rip off a toenail on Friday night that meant a trip to the emergency vet 
. Dogs were at Mom and Dad’s who were my dog sitters. I walk in the house to my mother yelling to come get my dog NOW. Peanut had ripped a toenail and every step left a little puddle of blood. Again…thankfully in the kitchen that had linoleum and not out on the carpet. At least there is that.
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I had to tune out in the first post at “But, wait! There’s more. Dogs have acute hearing and smell. We all know this.”
Yes. Yes, I do know this. 
Saw it coming Couldn’t read any of the anecdotes, but I laughed anyway.
I will share only one limited fairly clean anecdote, compared with others … the one time I was getting some horse photos in an open pasture, without the exuberant black lab frolicking toward the horses, agitating them and losing the photo, I knew there had to be a bad reason that the dog was quiet and not bothering anyone.
Sure enough, I finished the photos and turned around to see the dog rolling gloriously in a pile of fresh horse manure. The wet medium-brown kind of horse manure, that indicates that it is a little softer, even stickier and more odiferous than the usual.
The dog took advantage my preoccupation with taking photos to make a prolonged, thoroughly in-depth self-application of this amazing product of nature. What a great opportunity, from his point of view.
This kind of thing is why I kept dog soap and a clean towel in the car at all times, and could find a garden hose anywhere we happened to be. Also yet another reason to keep the dog cover on the car’s back seat.
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