NaPoWriMo Day 9 - Albert The Wonderdog

In Today's Issue a poem about me little pal, who as I write this is laid 
across my lap !!

NaPoWriMo Day 9
Albert
Doggies
Random Joke
Finish with a Song

NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating

 poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.

Maureen Thorson, a poet and publisher of Big Game Books announced the project March 17, 2003 as an 

online project on her blog. She invited other poets with blogs to join her in the project and listed

the participating poets. Thorson has continued to run the project each year on her blog with more 

poets participating as the word has spread about the project.

If you want more information the please visit the site :-

http://www.napowrimo.net

Albert

My furry best pal

who sits on my lap

brown eared but mostly white

My little chap

he has an eyepatch

but sails no sea

apart from the ones

He build from his pee

he growls and he snarls

He barks and he yips

and when the postman arrives

its the apocalypse

He annoys me sometimes

when he barks at the telly

and when he lets one go

It's silent but smelly

But I love my little dog

despite all his crimes

Because without him in my life

It would no longer rhyme

There are more than 150 dog breeds, divided into 8 classes: sporting, hound, working, terrier, toy, non-sporting, herding, and miscellaneous.

The most popular name for a male dog in the UK is .... Max

The most popular name for a female dog in the UK is .... Bella 

 Dogs can vary in size from a 36 inch (150+ lb.) Great Dane to a 2 lb. Chihuahua.

Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet.

 Dogs may not have as many taste buds as we do (they have about 1,700 on their tongues, while we humans have about 9,000), but that doesn’t mean they’re not discriminating eaters. They have over 200 million scent receptors in their noses (we have only 5 million) so it’s important that their food smells good and tastes good.

Toto’s role in The Wizard of Oz was played by a female Cairn Terrier named Terry.

 An adult dog has 42 teeth.

Nearly all but two breeds of dogs have pink tongues: the Chow Chow and the Shar-pei both have black tongues.

 The Poodle haircut was originally meant to improve the dog’s swimming abilities as a retriever, with the pom-poms left in place to warm their joints.

The Basenji is the only barkless dog in the world.

 Greyhounds can reach a speed of up to 45 miles per hour.

All dogs, regardless of breed, are direct descendants of wolves and technically of the same species.

 A dog’s whiskers — found on the muzzle, above the eyes and below the jaws — are technically known as vibrissae. They are touch-sensitive hairs than actually sense minute changes in airflow.

 Dogs are capable of locating the source of a sound in 6/100ths of a second by using their swiveling ears like radar dishes.

                                         

     I PAINTED THIS !

I need to re-home a dog. It's a small terrier, and tends to bark a lot. If you're interested, let me know and I'll jump over next door's fence and get it for you.

FINISH WITH A SONG

This is Donny Osmond...Puppy Love !!