We visited Bloomfield Animal Shelter’s Spring Fling Adoption Event this weekend. While we are not in a position to take on a new family member, we met a couple of sweetie pies named Tiger and Chester who would make wonderful pets. Tiger is a puppy and full of energy; Chester would have to be top (read: only) dog in his new forever home. We got some video of shelter trainer Henry working with these guys, demonstrating their bite withholding and basic training. Take a look at the video and feel your heart melt! Then contact the shelter and meet Tiger and Chester.

Today we went to the vet for lepto and bordetella vaccine updates. While obviously a little put out by the rectal thermometer and injections into his hindquarters, Henry was very brave. “I wish all the dogs were this easy!” the vet exclaimed. “You really picked a good one.”  We were very proud.

Henry: brave and proud

That was a quote from Sabine Begall, a research who has determined that dogs have a compass-like sense of direction when it comes to well, you know, pooping. Apparently they sense the Earth’s magnetic fields. Here’s another quote from one of the researchers:

Dogs prefer to face north or south but only when the Earth’s magnetic field is stable, which it often is not. A lot of the time, the magnetic field is kind of wobbly and unstable. And when that happens, the dogs will drop their payload, well, any which way.

 

Read more at the NPR website for All Things Considered.