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I wanted to let you see pics of the dog (Yodel) and my dog on a visit to my mom’s house. She has a fenced backyard. We all sat in the backyard and Yodel basically bounced all over the place, jumped up on me in my chair and licked my face, played with a ball, etc. Did all the normal puppy things and kept begging my dog to play, which my dog found annoying.

No dog training classes are happening yet, though Mom continues to speak of them. She says she’s trying to get Yodel used to other dogs and has asked my brother and my nephews to bring their dogs over. So far Mom (that’s her in chair) can physically handle the dog.

Yodel is growing quickly. I wish my mom would get her into a class, like, yesterday. She jumps on people which is sort of cute when she’s (relatively) small. (30+ pounds now.) Soon she’ll be big enough to knock people down and that’s when we will see if my mom’s decision to get this kind of dog at this age, and a puppy at that, is as unwise as I thought it was. So far my mom is doing ok.

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The Gleninsheen gorget is a late Bronze Age gold collar, found in 1930 in Ireland by a local out rabbit shooting. His dog cornered a rabbit in a rock fissure, and when he went to the spot, he discovered the "queer looking thing", which had been folded in two. He didn’t know what it was at first.

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So it’s been six weeks or so since my 82-year-old mother bought a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy from a breeder. Just letting you know how it’s going, as I had posted about it.

My boy Patrick and his fren at the corner. This guy doesn’t even have a dog of his own but bought treats for mine. Every time we walk past his fren’s house, Pat drags me up the driveway to get his treat.

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A skull with some soft tissue but no jaw found in an English bog in 1983. The discovery led to Peter Reyn-Bardt's confession to murder in his wife's unsolved 1961 disappearance; he thought the skull was hers. The skull turned out to date from circa 250 AD. Reyn-Bardt was guilty anyway.

Amala (c. 1918 – 21 September 1921) and Kamala (c. 1912 – 14 November 1929) were two "feral girls" from Midnapore, Bengal (Currently West Bengal), India, who were alleged to have been raised by a wolves. The modern belief is their origin story was a hoax.

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