Dogs are excellent distractions

Doggo updates: 
So, doggo had a visit to the vet! Partially just to get an exam, and particularly because we noticed her limping and obsessively licking one paw.

Turns out, the vet thinks it looks like she has some skin allergies - not uncommon in pitbull mixes, they have sensitive skin, and not uncommon in dogs that are recovering from food deprivation - so she has now has some pills to take in the day and an antibiotic mouse to get patted onto her feet.  The particularly sad paw had a pustule that is consistent with the kind of minor skin infections common to dogs with skin allergies. 

Fun fact: she does NOT like having her feet touched with wet things. This is the only thing she has snapped about. Touching feet - of concern. Wet things on feet: Hard No. 

And then once she ran away from us with one partially damp paw, she sneezed so hard that she bonked her nose on the floor. 

So, that was yesterday.

I will social distance!: 

Enjoy this absurd song! - I Will Social Distance, by Randy Rainbow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimbyL_25Nw

There's a part of me that realizes a dog is an excellent companion for social distancing, because she has given me and the husbeast a project to work on together that distracts us from the larger anxieties we are facing, and makes us a team together to handle the troubling situation. Plus the exercise and the excuse to call my dad and be anxious about the dog's poor little feet. 

In local news, since we are now under "Not Actually Shelter in Place," I also got a last minute pickup of some books and coffee beans I had ordered from my favorite bookstore/coffeeshop - so I have a lot of new Terry Pratchett books to get into, and some delicious coffee in store.

I also appear to have purchase NK Jemisin's newest book twice, once on Amazon Kindle and once thru my local bookstore, so. That's not something I intended to, but dammit, she deserves the money. 

The vet had the most clear Covid19 protocols of any place I had seen - they picked the dog up from the car, you sat outside and consulted with the vet on your phone, and then they brought the dog back. All in mask and gloves and vet scrubs. So we couldn't be in with the dog to talk to the vet, so it was probably extra stressful.