A Testament To Just How Weird I Am

I don't have that long to post, and this one requires a bit of background information since this is a new blog... no one is familiar with what has been going on.

I feed Muffin a grain-free diet. He is also intact do to various health reasons(I will post more about my thoughts on this later as I know there are a large group of people who freak out when they hear the word 'intact').

Muffin is also a little too thin... which I mainly feel is a combination of a few things. He's fed a grain-free so he ends up eating a lot of protein and very little fattening foods. Imagine the difference between someone who lives solely on fruits, veggies, and fish/chicken compared to the person who eats foods consisting of breads, pasta, rice, etc... He's also intact and very young, that combination seems to always leave dogs on the thin side.

The final reason is that to Muffin seems to find almost everything more interesting than food. Yes, you read that correctly. A corgi who would rather be pet, run around, and play instead of eat!!! yes i know... I'm not sure he's 100% corgi either sometimes.

So anyway, a good friend of mine happens to be a vet. He wants me to do all these blood tests to make sure his digestive tract is working properly.

Muffin is a very happy dog with normal stools. What we've kind of agreed on is that I'm worming him as a just in case, I'm going to add some wet food along with some satin balls to try and fatten him up a bit.

At the end of the month he has an appt with a gastrointestional(can't spell that for my life), this is going to double as a yearly physical as well as a time to do any blood tests needed. (I should add that my friend works from home as a sort of expert for other vets to call when they need help... so he has no actual practice to draw blood, chill it, and send it off to antec).

Ok, so now that you have the background information on this, I stopped by his house yesterday to pick up some wormer... I also needed a heartworm pill for this month. We ended up talking about heartworm and how the tests for it can be very inacurate and why.

So this morning I woke up wondering why mesquitoes are able to live long enough to pass on diseases... not so much heartworm, but more along the lines of things like west nile virus.

The mesquito is so small, I would think those diseases should have no problem killing such a small creature almost instantly.

So that is why I am so weird.... who wakes up thinking about the transfer of diseases to different creatures and how the host lives long enough to do it?!?!?!?!