news to me

Things I have learned in the past month:

• having one's hands/feet/jeans/chin licked is not as gross as it appears to people who have never had dogs.
• picking up poop in plastic bags swiftly becomes routine and also not as gross as it seems at first.
  
• those little burrs in grass this time of year that are merely annoying to people are vicious to dogs. they get caught everywhere, but most evilly between toes. I am considering making Lulu some felted knitted booties to protect her from the lurking burrs. I doubt she would tolerate them, however.
  
• dogs have toes.
  
• processed (don't know how) bull penises are the most preferred chewing implement (by Lulu at least).
• processed bull penises do not become less gross with familiarity. once chewed upon, they have a disgusting smell, pallor, wetness, stickyness, and texture.
• I have a growing, already-very-strong, loathing for irresponsible dog owners.
• it is very hard to tell when my clients are lying to me.
• I dislike suspecting that my clients are lying to me.
• an amazing number of poor people (in America even!) do not have phones.
• an amazing number of poor people somehow live on no income at all (or so they tell me, and they can't all be lying).
• Thus far, my limits are taxed more by my job's aspect of general life manager/problem-solver than by its truly legal aspects.

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