This essay is a little of this and a little of that.

Here's the Rascal report. She went back to her veterinarian for the third time. He's ruled out Lyme disease and fractures. So why is she still very weak in the back end? Don't know. The vet nurse gave me a video on a raw food diet for dogs. I played it yesterday. It seems that canned dog food is pretty "dead", even if all the nutritional components are there. All living things have an electrical / magnetic field around them. Dogs should eat like wolves eat. Wolves eat protein, carbohydrates and fats. They eat raw meat they killed themselves. Rascal is on an antibiotic, an anti-inflammatory and something for her stomach. In addition, I give her a dog vitamin and another supplement for joints. She also gets something from my own vitamin caddy called hyleronic acid. It is for joint health.

OK. I will continue the supplements and add raw food. The video assures me that dogs have lots of stomach acid and that they can eat raw food. First try: Rascal gets an ox tail...raw. She loves it! She brightens up and gnaws it to the bone. She eats the sinews and part of the bone. Will this more nutritional food supply her with what she needs to heal? All I know is she likes raw meat better than dry dog food. She will need more calcium. Rascal eats Tums.

Rascal has been to the groomers. Mutts don't have any grooming standards, so I told the groomer to wash and cut her fur any way that makes sense. Rascal got a puppy cut. You know: those cute little fuzzy puppys that you can't help picking up and holding? Like that. Her fur is half the length it was in the winter. There will be less fur for the vacuum cleaner to find. She got her nails cut, too.

The other topic on the news: same sex marriage. It seems that a civil union isn't enough for the politically active homosexuals. They want marriage. They say they are being discriminated against. I don't think so. Marriage is defined as a contract between a man and a woman. Any homosexual can marry a person of the opposit sex. They chose not to. That's OK. They can do what they want to do. Just don't change the definition of marriage to accomodate this vocal minority. I am glad they have the benefits of a civil union. If one partner falls ill, than his partner can make medical decisions. Long term partners should be able to trust and support each other in this way. They have made a commitment to each other and now have legal protection. That should be enough. If they choose to have a commitment ceremony, I wish them well.

We have lots of contracts between legal entities...business arrangements, child care and education contracts, medical and living wills. Buying and selling contracts. They are all to be respected. Add civil unions to the list and let marriage stay what is always was.