Our DUMBASS dog Sparkle took a quick trip to the ER last night with her friend the Beck. The Iron Fist (now with extra magnetism), in her decidedly finite wisdom, left a big loaf of bread wrapped in plastic in her suitcase on the floor. At dog level. Agent Wrigley managed to dig it out, and in the five minutes last night that Sparkle was left alone with access to the suitcase, she devoured an entire loaf.
I found the crumbs and chewed plastic later - Wrigley had initially refused to eat her dinner, so I flipped out, thinking that Wrigley had eaten three times her weight in bread. I called Beck and brought Wrigley in, but the Vet2B found nothing wrong. SO when we came home, Sparkle followed us around and made ridiculous squealing noises. Beck suspected that the Round Mound of Canine Stupidity was the one who ate the loaf, so she took Sparkle in for an X-ray and lo... there was a big fat wad of solid in Sparkle's stomach with no gas bubbles to be seen. Sparkle got some sub-Q fluids and some pain killers and was allowed to come home, but not until well after midnight.
All of this meaning that Sparkle is now more or less okay, but our entire evening last night was wrecked. I missed the majority of the freaking NCAA basketball championship, but my main complaint is that my blood pressure / heartrate / general sympathetic response apparatus was in high gear from the second I saw the chewed wrapper until today at around 2 when beck told me Sparks was more or less better. The Beck and I got little to no sleep last night - Beck even decided to stay home with STD to make sure that she didn't explode - so today is more or less a wash, too.
In conclusion, dogs are stupid, in particular, little dark dogs whose names rhyme with pain-in-the-assarkle. When the scale is precariously balanced with food and death, fear not: a dog will always take its chances.
And because I can't possibly include a Sparkle-content only post, here is something else entirely:
And a couple more links! Oh BOY!
The Dali Lama is visiting Rice
And this is impossibly cool - Rosa Parks sued Outkast a few years back over their use of her name for a single. She apparently had to prove to the non rap understanding court that this was a bad thing. Here is her translation of the first two verses of the song. It's kinda awesome.
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