Welcome! This is the Monday, August 16th edition of the Pootie Diaries.
The subject today is: Water!
This diary is a politics free zone, meant for relaxing and unwinding for a few minutes, before going back to the serious stuff.
Feel free to add your own photos and comments. Pet care and concern comments are always allowed, of course, but otherwise, please keep it lighthearted and friendly.
“Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian Biochemist)
All animals need WATER, in its many forms and for many uses.
WATER TO DRINK
“Water is the only drink for a wise man.” Henry David Thoreau
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." W. C. Fields
WATER FOR BATHING AND GROOMING
“I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place.” Debbie Peterson
“If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone” Ernie Pyle
WATER FOR DISEASE PREVENTION
"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you." John Muir
WATER FOR SWIMMING
WATER FOR MAKING MUD
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. Carl Sandburg
"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature." Robin Day
"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it." Denzel Washington
WATER FOR RAIN AND SNOW AND ICE
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event.
“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.” Jeff Valdez
“A good snow machine will cost $2,000 and last four to five years. With dogs, you've got regenerative powers. Snow machines don't have pups.” Lou Schultz
When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.
WATER IS ALSO HOME TO MANY, MANY CREATURES
“Estuaries are a happy land, rich in the continent itself, stirred by the forces of nature like the soup of a French chef; the home of myriad forms of life from bacteria and protozoans to grasses and mammals; the nursery, resting place, and refuge of countless things.” Stanley A. Cain - Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife & Parks 1965-1968:
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Credits and Thanks
Many thanks to icanhascheezburger.com, source of the LOLpics.
And thanks to various unknown photographers for the rest of the photos.
Special thanks to all the Pootie-Woozle people for all they do to make this world a better place.
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