An Australian fella.

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Cake day: March 20th, 2025

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  • Yes.

    She’s a king Charlie spaniel, so I have to share the bed with her and a pair of Sennheiser hd4.50s paired to an iPhone that plays brown noise and an Android that does YouTube. (Can’t trust an Android to play 24/7 without a stutter at least once a week, but the iPhone which is otherwise dumb as a box of rocks never fails - the headphones switch devices when one stops playing.)

    She has a small fan running at the foot of the bed and most nights will rest her head on the end of the bed metal rails for a nice cool breeze and potentially a redneck CPAP. If she gets cold she’ll come to the pillow end, head first under the blanket to pinch my warmth for a short time and then stretch out along the gap between the passenger side pillow and the blankets. I may get kicked in the back now and then.

    Perhaps the strangest thing though is she’ll happily be in bed for 12 hours or more and not need to want to empty her bladder.

    Yes, she is a spoiled Velcro dog and rules our world. The car even has an evaporative cooler, a lithium battery bank and a backup AGM battery in the back seats so she can be with me while I work even on hot days.

    The cavalier breed tends to bond so tightly to their owner that they get very stressed after a few hours alone.












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