General Jackassery

It’s been an interesting week since we got back from regionals. I got home on Monday night to find that Nanook had a raging skin infection, we’re talking VERY bad. I don’t really know what caused it, but it was bad enough that when I stepped out on the back porch I was like “jeeze what is that smell!” I noticed that the birds had been on the back porch eating the dog food because there was a ton of bird poo back, so I thought that maybe that was causing it. Finally Nanook sat down and started to scratch and I saw the hair was gone and blood and ooze where running down his chest, as I got closer I realized it was he that smelled and I finally figured out what it smelled like! Rancid meat, it’s a smell I’d only encountered one other time. When I came back from Sewannee after being gone all summer, the power had been shut off and we had left meat in the refrigerator, when I opened the door to the fridge it almost knocked me over. Anyway, that’s what Nanook smelled like, the flesh was literally rotting off. I took him to the vet and he’s going to be okay, but I can’t help but feel sorry for him. He’s had a pretty rough go of it the last couple of months. He’s an AWESOME dog though, he seems to take it all in stride and the only thing that’s important to him is that you love on him a little! I’ve made a promise to the dogs and myself to start spending more time with them. I’m away from home WAY too much.

Anyway, that same evening Sarah calls and says that she’s found a stray cat and she wants to bring it home. She ask me if she should! What can I say I love animals, I told her that if she didn’t think it had a home and if she thought it wouldn’t be able to take care of itself then bring it home if she wanted to! So she did and I took it to the Vet yesterday and the new Cat is doing wondefully. She’s staying at my house until Sarah get’s back in town, she’s already litter trained herself and she doesn’t seem to scratch at anything. She just seems so happy to have a home, a dry, warm place to sleep, and food. I’m trying to talk Sarah into naming her Lilo, I think that would be cute since I have a cat named Stich!

Okay, so things seem to be settling down, there’s a lot of work to do to get the team ready for nationals and there’s a lot of work for me to do to get ready for my bike ride in May, but atleast the burden and the stress of trying to win the regional competition is off our backs and we’re back in the game at the National level. I guess I should say “They.”

Well, that’s all I have for now. Hope all my readers are doing well. Life is good!

Todder, Out!