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Reptile Mega Month

I have no idea what this means but Pets Mart is promoting Reptile Mega Month as a time to bring home that reptile you've always wanted.

If it isn't fuzzy and furry, I've never wanted it.

This week goes to the dogs

This National Dog Bite Prevention Week sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Association in order to make people more aware of how to avoid being bitten and how to train your own dog.

More of us are bitten by dogs each year than we may realize and dogs are bitten by dogs as well. Take some time to look over the AVMA's information, it may come in handy one day.

Ferdie's waiting for all the graduation festivities

Welcome to my yard

Friends fit for babies and dogs

Katie sent me a picture this morning of Drew sitting with his stuffed animals family. 

This is very cute but it immediately brought to mind something similar at our house. Ferdie has his own very loyal stuffed animal family which he keeps constantly close by for comfort and security.

He is always near one or all of these guys and we find them in different parts of the house depending on where we are or if we're gone. They move.

What are you looking at, he says to me.

Ferdie's kind of day

Man eats dog-presidential version

A story from the Daily Caller quoting a portion of President Obama's book, Dreams of My Father, set the social media world on fire last night and the flames are still burning this morning as cable news people kept up the chatter.

Here's the previously unnoticed paragraph from the book that started it all.

"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

The highlighted part of the post was of course Obama admitting to having eaten dog meat.

While the updates and comments to the Daily Caller are hilarious, the jokes continued on Twitter even bringing up a separate hashtag that trended the topic all night long. #ObamaDogRecipes

Some of these were just laugh out loud funny and clever. A fun way to counterpoint to the Romney's dog on top of the car thing.

The top Obama eating dog tweets from last night.

Romney: Dog on top of car Obama: Dog on top of rice with a light ginger sauce

Chicken poodle soup

Spaghetti and MuttBalls

Ferdie turned green

No sooner did I start cutting the backyard today than Ferdie decided to roll in the freshly mowed section. The grass was long, thick and lush. And full of spring Chlorophyll.

He turned green.

I mean really really green.

Glow in the dark green. Which lead to a trip to the seminary fountain for a swim and a toweling off. Most of the green came off, but his head still has some residual color.

New York Times going to the dogs

Since Jill Abramson took over as executive editor of the New York Times last November, stories about dogs have increases by 45 percent.

Some find the emphasis on dog stories too much but I think it's great, it leaves less room in the paper for constant republican bashing or rather, democratic pandering.

Ferdie loves his greens

Radishes, broccoli, turnips, you name it, if it's a cool weather crop he's right there.  Today he found the tastiest mustard green plant.

He loves this stuff

Ambrosia

Chickens moving east?

Athough nothing has been done officially, there is the beginning of a grassroots movement in Belleville to allow homeowners to raise chickens. The St. Louis side of the metro area has seen various suburbs approve backyard chicken ordinances so why not the metro east?

Spearheaded by the owner of a local t shirt shop and a second year SIU-C law student, a proposal is being tentatively worked out to hopefully be submitted to the city when law school breaks for the summer.

But there are already chicken t shirts described as : Give peeps a chance in Bellevegas," with a lederhosen-wearing chicken holding a mug of frothy beer in one wing and the Belleville flag in the other.

Not sure what this Bellevegas business is all about, certainly Belleville is not Vegas-y nor would most residents want to be.  

Anyway, the first thoughts on a chicken ordinance by the law student would be allowing 3 chickens (hens no roosters) and no slaughtering. Frankly 3 would not be a large enough number, chickens need to huddle together to keep warm in cold weather and there is an optimum number which as I remember would be 4. 

If you're going go where no one has gone before, chicken guys, think big.  Go for 8. 8 is enough.