My other dog Bandit doesn't get sick that often but is decidedly less social. Today while we were at the HP Houston Marathon, we saw several spectators with dogs watching the festivities.  I started imagining how fun it would be to load my dog into the car and take him to watch an event like the marathon.  So here I am cueing happy, fun, Disney style music in my brain as my dog and I gaze upon the multitudes of marathoners in peace and tranquility in my head.

Then I started thinking of a vision closer to reality.  Reality would work like this:  Bandit sees another dog walking by on the side of the road, tries to tear across road to establish his dominance (ie rip the throat out of the other dog), gets tangled around the knees of the oncoming marathoners, uses his leash like a lasso to bring them to the ground, becomes scared as he gets tangled and begins jumping around and yelping.  Panic ensues, cops come, we are escorted away from marathon.  End of story.

*Sigh* It's probably better that I left him at home today.

My dog Taylor is sick and has been for about two days now.  He's throwing up about twice a day.  He has a pretty weak stomach and mild allergies to a whole host of different things and a voracious appetite which requires him to eat everything he sees.  What this means is that he gets sick and begins throwing up probably every couple of months when he eats some generally harmless thing that affects his digestion (like a sock for instance).

It always sucks at times like these because you always end up hunched over the vomit like some sort of forensic scientist trying to backtrack the dog's digestive endeavors over the last 48 hours to determine what is the cause of his woes.  After doing this a few times you begin to wish you had one of those super dogs like Lassie that could simultaneously rescue Timmy from an abandoned mineshaft and do cartwheels while barking out what unusual thing he ate in the last few hours in some sort of doggy-phonetics that you could understand.  The worst part is the fact that since the dog ate something several hours before it got sick, you know there is no way in hell it's going to make the mental connection that what he ate before is what made him sick.  So basically, it's a crappy issue that is destined to repeat itself every few months.