A dog and bad luck...

A friend of us came for a visit today, her assistance dog in training in tow, a crossbreed between Portuguese water dog and Labrador, 15 weeks old now. I would not want to have an assistance dog to take care of, knowing I´d have to give the sweetie back one day. This one is hilarious: prankish, clumsy as young dogs are, hoggish and very inventive to get what she wants, like the bowl with the cat food. And I loved her missing teeth, looks so cute when she practically grins at you! Yes, it´s a she, they call her Mocca, but she has not been given her official name yet, this the original owners will do, when they´ll pick Mocca up to start her real training. Namo did completely ignore her, though the doggie is huge for her age. He let her sniff him, and he fled only once, when she barked for the first time. This was the moment when both cats tried to get to the upper bathroom with the cat beds, Vaire sidling through the gap between the huge boxes that hubby had placed on the staircase so that Mocca would not be able to reach the first floor, Namo jumping over the hurdle, landing on Vaire´s back. Catfight ensued, and Namo decided to better spend his time with a young dog than his furious sister. But as much as I love dogs, the prospect of having to get up early and go to bed late to prevent doggy from leaking speaks against it. We had dogs for more than thirty years, that will have to do!
After doggy and her caretaker had left hubby and I were planning what to cook the next day, since we had been assigned to watch over Oscar and his younger brother. Younger brother eats almost all things you put under his nose, while Oscar eats next to nothing. Well, he loves burgers and chicken nuggets, but we do not do the McDonald´s thing anymore, sorry, Oscar! At midday we got a call from son number one: Oscar has been tested Covid positive in school, as has been one third of his class. He does not show any symptoms, and I hope it will stay this way, but the family is in quarantine, and hubby won´t be able now to smuggle chicken nuggets on our menu plan. It´s a good thing the four of them did not make it to the family meeting we had last weekend, or we´d all be forced to stay in our own four walls for two long weeks, or worse, one or all of us getting sick! So finally our government has acknowledged that the young ones in school and kindergarten are perfect virus catapults: almost never sick but spreading the sickness in the community. Took them almost a year to get it! Now I wonder how long it will take to lock up shops and schools and childcare facilities again, because a lot of clusters have been found among these the past few days!