Zeke helped me miss a mobile app webinar!

Here’s how a day can get off track.

My midday goal was to sit through a lunchtime webinar titled Mobile Media Solutions: You Need an App, and Here’s Why. It was free, it may benefit Arizona Attorney Magazine—what’s not to like?

Instead, I found myself at our veterinarian’s office with one of our two dogs, Zeke. Yesterday, we had noticed his charming new head-tilt. With my stubborn anthropomorphism, I assumed he was communicating something witty, or at least facetious. Our own brilliant Becket, I imagined. Waiting for Dogot.

It took my wife’s more incisive curiosity to reveal that something was amiss—and funky smelling—in his left ear. He wasn’t ironic; he was infected.

Zeke at his fighting weight

Our visit this morning yielded the following: He’s put on two pounds. He has an ear infection that may have been brought on by our other dog Cleo’s obsessive “cleaning” of Zeke’s ears, exacerbated by Cleo’s elderly dental situation. Zeke will require two kinds of antibiotics, one by mouth and one by (human) finger.

All of that for only $95.

As I review my morning, it made me think of two things. One is that $95 is a small price to pay to avoid a webinar on mobile apps. And the other is that it reminded me of a story I wrote a few years ago about the State Bar of Arizona’s Animal Law Section. I think our efforts yielded a pretty good story (called “Laws for Paws: A New Breed of Law Section” – how witty are we?) and a cover much-loved by readers.

You can read the story here.

“Cleo the Vector”: Who can't write an editor's column?

It also reminded me that Cleo (now called “Cleo the Vector” in our house) took pen to paw to write the Editor’s column in that Animal Law issue. I think she did a pretty good job, given her illiteracy and all.

You can read it here.

And here’s a shout-out to the wonderful Dr. Alicia Ruiz and the Central Phoenix Animal Hospital. Zeke—and I—thank you.