"Woo know: never to bother a husky while she's cooling her pawsies during the canicular season, mom!"
Hey readers, it's July 2! Did you notice that Merrium Webster's word of the day? That's right! canicular comes form the latin word canicula, which means "small dog." But there's more to this story involving the Roman mythological figure Orion and his dog! Yup, you read that right! Who knew that Orion had a dog named Sirius? I sure didn't! The constellation Sirius occurs during the hottest summer days from July to September which became known as dies caniculares or as we know it in English: "the dog days" of summer!
The more you know Internet, the more you know what you don't know. Funny how that works, huh?
On another note: it took exactly one year to get these two dogs back to healthy state. It's now a "pleasure" to pick up their poop. Yes, Internet, a pleasure as opposed to last year's disagreeable diarrhea debacle. I cringed as they both waded in the town's river lapping the water with an unparalleled voracity and contemplated making them get out. Instead, I just started them back on sprinkle of diatomaceous earth on their dinner as a worm prevention. Ya gotta live a little Internet. So do dogs!
Have a cool canicular season readers! Remember to keep your dogs cool at home. Never leave them in a hot car.
We might need to find a place to cool our paws, and out tails, and our whole bodies - it is so freaking hot here!!! Glad to hear the tummies are better. We are working on getting Timber's there too.
Woos - Lightning, Misty, and Timber
That's where JK Rowling pulled the name Sirius Black from and why his animagus was a dog 🙂
hello wild dingo its dennis the vizsla dog hay i wish for yoo a happy can ... canik ... wel ennyway happy wayding in the river!!! and i thawt that the dog days wer over but i am glad to heer that the faymus minstrel florence and the masheen got that wun rong!!! ok bye
HHa I was going to make the Harry Potter reference but someone beat me to it. Glad the pups are better!!