I shared this on the MeatShield Facebook page earlier, but I thought it bore mentioning here too: What was black, white and red all over? As of 6:45PM Thursday night, my dog! When the family and I came home from from my belated birthday dinner at Buca di Beppo's, Kathy and the girls went into the backyard and played fetch with Spotty while I went and fed my out-of-town sister's fish and dogs. I was almost done when my daughter came tearing across the street saying "Dad! Come quick, it's URGENT! Spotty's bleeding!" Turns out he took a tiny chunk off of his ear by running really fast through the yard. At the time, we blamed the swing set - as of Friday, we now know it was a very old rose bush with really hard thorns. I got to find out that ear wounds bleed A LOT and that a dog's instinct when their ears are cut is to shake their heads back and forth, spraying big globs of blood everywhere. My kitchen looked like a crime scene. The important thing is, he's fine, they glued his wound closed and now Spotty must wear the Cone of Shame.
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Have a good weekend, everybody!
~Rob
Well, he should be all right as long as his voder didn’t get damaged and make his voice sound like he’s on helium…
Poor blue hand, she could have taken his trademark moniker if she was feeling really irked. But glad to hear your dog is recovering, even if he really hates that cone I bet.
It’s all fun and games until somebody ends up in a cone. Hope your dog gets well soon!
Seems like people are more likely to commit acts of violence against people whose parts regenerate. Examples, pawn shop alien from Men In Black, a barbarian in the Xanth books whose girlfriend cuts out his tongue when he says something stupid, and the list goes on. You’re probably really hungry until it finishes regenerating as well.
Just remembered something from Dungeons & Dragons. Trolls don’t just regenerate severed parts. The severed parts become new trolls. So did Jaine just effectively become the mother of two young trolls? Stay tuned and find out.
@Mike: That’s not how I usually ran trolls; in my games, severed troll bits would just decay like any other dead matter.
… and “Severed Troll Bits” is now the name for my GWAR cover band. 😉
That’s a relief. I was remembering a bit from one of the Dritzzt books. The troll parts would make more trolls. The only thing to make sure trolls stayed dead was fire. Seems those trolls are highly flammable.
I kinda want duhr to end up in the cone of shame.