So despite having managed to come down with a nasty unseasonable cold/flu and being stuck home from work and on the couch, my weekend was really great. My partner and I decided to celebrate our two year lease renewal (in our wonderful rent stabilized apartment) by doing a massing spring cleaning- think hands and knees scrubbing of floors other people would have found clean to start with!

Because we live in NYC there are five of us (two cats, the princess dog, and my partner and myslef) living in a 625 square foot two bedroom apartment (this is huge for manhattan) so as you can imagine if you are not on top of it (and even if you are) the excess fur and dust bunnies can quickly get out of control. not surprising then as we moved all the furniture we did happen to come across some fur possibly enough to make an entire new cat! During this time one of the last things in the bedroom to clean was Mercury's kennel, which shockingly was completely devoid of dust!

Now for most dogs this might not be that big of an issue, however he's our little allergic puppy who is allergic to pretty much the entire world, chicken, beef, corn, pork, wheat, grass, pollen the list goes on and on and on and one of his biggest allergy triggers....you guessed it, DUST. This can only mean that the little guy is seriously licking his kennel clean of dust, other than that or there is a magic force field around it, it's been a while since I took science courses but i'm going to place my money on the chi-chi tongue.

it's also important to note that the dust buster which has always lived on top of his kennel mysteriously ceased to work this weekend----our minds have begun thinking that it was a ploy to sabotage the competition....