Morning Peeps,

WORD

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Pup 1: "Do you smell that, what odoriferous smell.."
Pup 2: "I know right, smells like victory..."
Pup 1: "Dude, you gotta stop watching Apocalypse Now..."
Pup 2: "Dude, you gotta stop using words like odoriferous..."

KIDS, AND PUPS, SAY THE DARNEST THINGS...

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"Someday Ma, someday, you see that pasture there, I'm gonna run all over that bad boy, gonna make that pasture my bitch..."

Ma: "Wha, where'd you hear that..."

"Daddy, Ma, you wanna hear the other things he says..."

Dad: "Junior, you're gonna want to pipe down now..."

SOME JUST DO IT FOR THE DRAMA

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Zach, Jack, and Mac
Zach: Dude, we've got an emergency
KD: State your emergency
Jack: Dude, you see this box? Way, way too small
KD: Okay, we'll get a bigger box, not sure that's an emergency
Mac: Should we make it a National Emergency, seems that's the only thing that spurs action now.
KD: Well, no, that won't help either...Most times, it's just adjustments need to be made, doesn't call for all that
Z: Some just like drama I guess.

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Rocco, you gotta game?
Rocco: Yes, just pick up now though…the Bigs are off-limits
KD: Such a shame we don’t have baseball now.
R: Well, the players and the owners can’t seem to figure things out.
KD: Yes, and while they bicker, fans just sit and wait.
R: You going to a stadium once they start playing?
KD: Doubt it, but I’m high risk, others may go, it’s just can we remember the love of the game?
R: Love of the Game? Oh, you mean before greed and power took over.

BUILDING CHEMISTRY??

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Ken-Dogger: (BOOM)…(BOOM) What was THAT?
Sly: Dude, just some experiments gone awry.
KD: Oh, so I shouldn’t worry? What are you about?
S: Makin’ me a LADY…
KD: You are? And pourquoi?
S: Well, I heard you talk about chemistry in a relationship, thought I’d have at it.
KD: This isn’t how you do it, it’s built thru exchanges and give-and-take.
S: Sheesh, sounds like hard work, let me get back to the lab.
KD: You can push on or you can retreat, the choice is yours.

COULD WE JUST TRY TO BE COOL WITH EACH OTHER AGAIN?

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Jasper, what up?
Jasper: You remember that big barkin’ dog Mad Max down the street?
KD: I do J, why?
J: Well, every time we walk, Max just barks and barks and barks, it’s tiring.
KD: IKR
J: So I moseyed down there and we spoke. Turns out he’s just protecting his turf.
KD: So you told him you’re not a threat?
J: I did, turns out talking through it, led to us being cool with each other.
KD: Imagine that…

Come on, CATCH UP...

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"This is rich, these adults bark commands, want me to sit, want me to roll over...I'm so quick, they missed it.

Most times, I'm just waiting for the humans to catch up..."

KICK 'EM WHEN THEY'RE UP

Morning Peeps,

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Ken-Dogger: Bluto, what you doing?
Bluto: I was just thinkin’, I could have been an actor, but I wound up here.
KD: Well, you DO look good, and you’re not clear, whisper in my ear…
B: What? You want dirty laundry?
KD: Well, you’re not the bubble-headed bleached blonde…
B: And you don’t seem to know what’s going on or how far it’s gone…
KD: Guess we just keep eating our dirty laundry…
B: Kick ‘em when they’re up, kick ‘em when they’re down.

WE APPRECIATE WHAT IS EARNED

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Ken-Dogger: Well Chantay, been in the closet again I see...
Chantay: Well, saw all these kids walking in 'em, thought I'd join in
KD: Well Missy, you gotta earn that hat
C: Not all the time, have you seen some of their grades?
KD: C'mon, be nice...You'll get there, once your training is done
C: I wanna be a graduate
KD: Well then, Earn it...You'll appreciate it more
C: Huh, appreciation, must be more to it than I thought

STRETCHIN'

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Ken-Dogger: Hey there Buster, what up?
Buster: Dude, I’m stretchin’…doggie yoga, man
KD: IKR, I want to get you going and you’re stretchin’…
B: I need to know stuff works, I don’t want to get a silly injury
KD: Oh, it’s a dog’s way of knowing your body.
B: That’s it…We seem to know innately how to protect ourselves.
KD: I think you’re on to something, I’m gonna stretch more now.
B: At your age Bro, your body needs all the protection it can get.
KD: Steady, boy, steady…

SOMETIMES, WE NEED TO JOSTLE OUR HUMANITY

Morning HumanKinders,

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Cujo, what up?
Cujo: Bro, I’m worried, pandemic seems to be raging still.
KD: Not here so much, that’s in other countries.
C: And that doesn’t bother you?
KD: It does, but what am I to do?
C: Well, you could advocate for peeps who don’t have someone to advocate for them.
KD: Seems like we need to get to a group where all are helped.
C: You have that, it’s called HUMANITY.
KD: You’re right to worry…

Morning Beeps and Peeps,

BLESS-ED SLEEP

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"Head, Head, would you wake up...

Did you ever see such a cranium?"

(Homage to 'I Married an Axe Murderer')

THE GOOD LORD KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING WITH ME, HE MADE ME STRONG, BUT NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE A WOMAN

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Mama Cass, what you doing with Brutus and Mongo?
Mama Cass: Teaching them how to follow the lead
KD: But they're gonna be MEN
MC: What the hell does that mean?
KD: Well, Men...they, uh, they TAKE the lead
MC: Leaders start as followers, that's how they learn.
KD: Oh, teaching the yin and yang I see...
MC: Yes, you boys stay out of our way, Mamas will make them whole.

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Scratch, that’s you boy.
Scratch: Was wondering that, I didn’t recognize me.
KD: Mirrors are great, we get to check ourselves out.
S: Oh, like checking to see all our stuff is in the right place?
KD: Yes, but when we go out, peeps don’t often see just our mirror image.
S: So, they see more?
KD: They see our actions, and our words, and they see we’re more than a mirror image.
S: Wow, and here I thought I just had to look cute, better work on my personality.

SPELLING...THE BANE OF MODERN EXISTENCE

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"Dude, it ain't that hard, the rule is I before E except after C..."

"Jeez, Ma, I'm not sure this one is ready for spelling..."

IT SHOULD ALWAYS BE ABOUT ENDING THE SUFFERING

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Ken-Dogger: What’s all this noise?
Nellie: I’m protesting…
Shelley: Yes, and I want him to stop.
KD: So this is how you’re handling it.
N: Shelley wouldn’t let me take a knee…
S: That’s right, I like upping the ante.
KD: Many do up the ante, until we get beyond protesting, losing the veracity of it all.
N: So we keep fighting?
KD: Until you find another way to end the suffering.

DIRECTIONALITY...IT CAN BE BEFUDDLING

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"Hey, check this out, took me most of the morning Ma, but I've finally got both ears going in the same direction...

What you say?

To a Beagle, this is no small feat."

As Richard Pryor once mused, "why you guys hold your stuff?"

"You've done taken everything else..."

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"What you talkin' 'bout Willis? I'm checkin' cause you see what they did to the tail...Tell me, can you see 'em, or did they take them too? Well, are they there?"

STILL TRYING TO FIX IT

Morning Fixers,

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Quigley, why the look?
Quigley: Did Rudy G get paid?
KD: What? You’re concerned about that? Isn’t that Rudy’s problem?
Q: It is, it’s also ours…
KD: Not sure I follow…
Q: Well, it’s really more about the End of a Story, we never seem to get there.
KD: Does leave stuff open and easily escaped, doesn’t it?
Q: Yep, it’s just a series of ‘new stuff’ anymore, cycle seems broken.
KD: Then we need to get about fixing the cycle.

THEY OFTEN TELL US ABOUT THE NECESSARY RESTRICTIONS

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"Okay, okay, okay, I know I said it before...But if you'd help me out of this box for the 20th time, I promise, well I hope to promise, the 21st time won't come soon, well, soooo soon....

Ma, you might also consider not putting these fun things in places where I can get to..."