Saturday, September 23, 2006

built like a barge

I'm sad to inform you all that the dog has fallen thru.
No dog.
Not that dog anyway.
Bethfield went out to pick it up this morning and took it for a walk. Turns out that it wasn't so fat after all. It was 75 pounds of really muscle-ly dog.
75 pounds of "drag-you-around-the-yard,-and-heaven's-knows-what-would-happen-if-it-swung-it's-giant-head-too-fast-in-the-house" really muscle-ly dog.
Not that type of dog....
I'm keeping my eyes peeled.

 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you should get a four legged chicken...that's right...FOUR LEGGED. Check it:

SOMERSET, Pa. - Henrietta the chicken was living inconspicuously among 36,000 other birds at Brendle Farms for 18 months — until a foreman noticed she had four legs.

"It's as healthy as the rest," the farm's owner, Mark Brendle, told The Daily American.

Brendle's 13-year-old daughter, Ashley, named the chicken Henrietta after the discovery Thursday. The bird has two normal front legs and, behind those, two more feet. They are of a similar size to her front legs but don't function. The chicken drags her extra feet behind her.

In 30 years of farming, Brendle said, he's never before seen a chicken with four legs.

There's no definitive reason why such deformities happen, said Cliff Thompson, a retired professor of genetics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He said it could be an accident of development, akin to a sixth toe on a cat.

Brendle said he jokingly suggested to his family that it sell Henrietta in an Internet auction, but Ashley objected.

does your Henrietta have extra legs?

Beth said...

Henrietta is a perfect specimen of a chicken.
A thoroughly perfect hen.
Thanks for asking.
- Beth

PS How 'bout a 'Ganaraskan'dog?