That was fun.

Woke up at three in the morning, had to throw up. Just came out of nowhere. Still feel iffy.

When Finn has his first big groom after a long winter

he looks like an entirely different dog. In fact, he looks like a Luck Dragon, so Jenn called him "Falkor"... prompting Eva to look up and demand to know why she was calling our dog "Fuck War".

I just about died laughing.

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Zoo's aardvark contributes to national animal milk research

breakingcatnews_feed is doing a great storyline involving the vacuum, starting about two weeks ago. Ignore the Sunday strips, they're unrelated.

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