Dooley and I watched the Puppy Bowl. It was good. Jason and Mr. Bojangles were very happy to see that the half time show for the Puppy Bowl happened to be a bunch of kittens running around. Dooley and I weren't impressed.
Lot's of people were asking what "Jason" was cooking for Super Bowl. You people act like I can't cook. (I totally can.) We didn't have big plans food wise. Jason made some crock pot slow cooker chicken that he was disappointed with--especially because it came from some Southern magazine that he feels like was written by God himself, so everything SHOULD be amazing if it comes out of that particular periodical. But it was OK. Needed some doctoring up for sure...If you ask me the sweet potato french fries that I made as a side dish were better. But we won't go there.
Other than that we really didn't do much this weekend. So I will move on to the main purpose of this post: Mutations. That's right: Mutations....
I think I now know why Dooley, my perfect full-blooded yellow lab, was dumped at a shelter.... He is MUTATED.
Seriously.
When we first figured it out Jason would chase him around and yell, "MUTATION! MUTATION!" which is mean, but true.
His front paws are normal: One Large paw pad on the bottom, four small paw pads around the top.
His back paws are MUTATED: One Large paw pad on the bottom, THREE small paw pads on the top. Ok really, it is four but the bottoms of the middle two pads are CONNECTED!
I googled it (obviously) and it turns out it is a mutation, but it is a common enough mutation to show up on the internet. Apparently it sometimes happens in water dogs because their feet are webbed so sometimes (like not that often) their pads can be a little connected. So my theory is that Dooley IS a full-lab, but that his deformed pads made him less than desirable to the folks who wanted to sell him for hundreds of dollars, so they dumped him. I want to call the owners of his two brothers that were dumped at the shelter with him and see if they are mutated too (to confirm my conspiracy theory). But I won't because that would probably make me crazy, right?
Here is a picture of one of his front "normal" paws.
See how the fur goes all the way around the pads? Normal.
See how the fur goes all the way around the pads? Normal.
Here is a picture of one of his back "mutated" paws.
See how pad #2 and #3 are connected at the very bottom?!
See how pad #2 and #3 are connected at the very bottom?!
Don't worry, Dooley... We are all a little wacky. And plus, if it wasn't for your MUTATION you might not have been dumped at the shelter, and then you would have been full price, and because your Dad LOVES a deal we wouldn't have been able to buy you.. So really, your MUTATION is good luck :)
<3 From Texas
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