Sorry I haven't been as attentive as normal this last week, but a new face has arrived in the family.

A new grandchild you ask?

NO! (have enough of those ) This is better.

You may have noticed I'm a bit of a pup person and I guess I've passed that on to my offspring. After a lot of consideration beyond the normal "should we get a pet?" questions, my son has added a canine to his household. The really different part is he is going to be expected to earn his keep.

Most of you also know my son is a cop in our fair burg. After a nagging personal want and the apparent occupational hole in the local services, he set about researching and formally purposing that a K-9 addition would be a self-supporting service the department needed.

He was told "that's a good idea, but there is NO budget to establish it. If you can raise the $35k, we'll do it"

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