Recently, a woman came home to find an intruder had squeezed through her doggie door and was making itself at home as follows…

Strange bedfellows

 

Rise and shine!

THERE REALLY ISN’T ANY! Check it out on Wikipedia or any other reference.

But what about poodles?  Don’t they have hair and not fur?  Isn’t that why they don’t shed?

Well, yes and no!.  The stuff is generally called “fur” when the fibers are shed all at roughly the same time.  It’s generally called “hair” when the fiber are all shed a different times.  And a poodle’s coat is like human hair in this respect.

(Online science curriculum for the day:   The hair from each follicle on your head falls out regularly.  Then the follicle rests a while.  Then it grows another hair.  But you don’t go bald, because there are always plenty of hairs growing while some follicles are resting.   The follicles of balding people gradually take longer and longer rests and grow thinner and thinner (and weaker) hair strands.)

Has the FOG lifted from your brain yet Dog Lover?  Best from the FogBuster, who makes learning a fun game.

Many animals, including some dogs, have coats that change between winter and summer.  This happens by having most old hair fall out and a coat of new hair grow in at roughly the same time.

But remember, there is really no difference between a strand of hair and a strand of fur.  Or between a hair follicle and a fur follicle.  It’s just called fur when the follicles “shed” in unison and hair when each follicle marches to the beat of its own drummer.

HERE’S HOW TO TALK TO YOUR DOG:  Just say:

“Sparky, blah blah blah blah blah.  Blah blah-blah, blah blah blah blah-bitty blah, Sparky?  Blah-dy, blah-dy, blah, blah Sparky blah bla-dity blah-blah.”

He’ll understand this at least as well as anything else you’ve ever said to him.

Daf inition of the vocabulary/spelling word for today:

“Blah” is probably the blandest member of the nonword family that includes yadda, blankety-blank, chatter, chit-chat, and rhubarb (British chiefly).

When your dog whines what do you do?

It’s obvious.  Dial whine-1-1 and call for a wambulance.

Wambulance:  n. a wihicle for a wimp who whines.  (Daf inition for today)

And remember…Have fun learning kids!

Oil water separator par excellence:  FogBusters removes fat oil grease FOG from wastewater effluent at food processing plants.  The best thing since DAF!

Dogs are great for your health:  physical, mental and social.

PHYSICAL:  They take you for walks.  You burn calories and get healthy.

The secret to getting regular exercise is to do something that you LIKE and FITS your schedule. If you get a dog, you will love taking it for a walk and it has to fit your schedule.

Another way of saying this:  If you make up your mind to start exercising and you choose something that you don’t like or does not fit your schedule, you are doomed to failure.  You won’t continue for long.

So remove your fat oil and grease  the fun, easy way.

Your online curriculum for the day:  Decide what exercise (dog or not) will be the most fun and most convenient for you.

GOOD LUCK EXERCISING!...from your daf fyfog buster dog lover oil water separator who treatswastewater to green the environment.

WHEN YOUR DOG COCKS HIS HEAD what does it mean?  It means “huh?”  It means he can’t understand something.  It’s as if he’s trying to understand something he sees by looking at it from a different angle.  Like turning murky picture on it’s side to see if it is any more decipherable (vocabulary flash card) at another angle.

Try talking to your dog in gibberish and make it sound very odd.  Chances are, he’ll cock his head.  BTW, the gesture is also dogspeak for “Have you lost your marbles?”

And there is your online curriculum complete with vocabulary, spelling and science curriculum for today!

I love dogs, astronomy and science, so here are some truth/lie facts separated like an oil/water separator:

1.  DOGS ARE DESCENDED FROM WOLVES. Not foxes or coyotes.  Only recently was this proven by DNA analysis.  A few years ago this was not known and dog descent was a controversy:  wolf, fox or coyote?  But the new DNA technology has settled this issue.

2.  DOGS DO DREAM, just like us.  You can see their eyeballs darting around beneath their eyelids during their REM sleep (dream sleep) just like with a person.  They may also vocalize (growl), twitch or give other signs that imaginary sights and activities are occurring within.