Now she’s a total Velcro dog ❤️️
By Lily Feinn
Published on May 12, 2021 at 2:57 PM
For Sundae’s entire life, all she’d known was a junk-filled backyard and a cold garage.
Rescued from a dog-hoarding situation in Oklahoma City by Country Roads Animal Rescue Society, the coonhound/Labrador retriever mix gave birth to a litter of puppies without ever stepping foot inside a home.
That is, until her foster mom showed her what it meant to have a warm bed. As soon as Sundae lay down to rest, the look of relief on her face was instantaneous.
Sundae knew that she was safe.
“We’ve had her for about a week, and you would never know that she’s never been an indoor dog before,” Sundae’s foster mom, who goes by the username Mugglequeen, wrote on Reddit. “She’s totally potty trained, incredibly gentle and she’s very polite indoors.”
Mugglequeen gave Sundae her name because it seemed to suit her sweetness and the beautiful chocolate, vanilla and caramel coloring on her face. At first, Sundae was cautious around men, but after her foster mom left a pair of her boyfriend’s shorts on the bed — Sundae’s favorite place — she started to warm up to him.
Now, Sundae is the most affectionate girl, always cuddling with her foster mom whenever she can. “She loves to sleep as close as possible to me in bed,” Mugglequeen wrote. “I think she’s just making up for eight-ish years of zero affection.”
After so long without medical care, Sundae is finally getting the treatment she deserves. The vet found her to be heartworm positive and in need of some dental work, but she’s otherwise in good health. All her puppies are being cared for by other foster families, and now Sundae’s only job is to wait for the right family to come along and fall in love with her.
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“Her perfect family would have a very chill lifestyle and have a ton of patience to help her continue to come out of her shell and gain confidence,” Mugglequeen said. “She will stay with me until her perfect forever family comes along!”
Hopefully, it won’t take too long for someone to add this loving mama dog to their family and gain a snuggle buddy for life.
If you are interested in adopting Sundae, you can learn more about her here.
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Beach Walker Baffled To Come Across An Animal Shaped Just Like A Heart
What do you think it was?
A few months ago, a woman was walking along the beach when she noticed a heart-shaped blob sitting in the shallow water. At first, she had no idea what it was — she’d never seen anything like it before.
The woman sent a video of the mystery animal to Jillian Daly, a marine science communicator who shares videos about ocean invertebrates on her Instagram. As soon as Daly saw the woman’s video, she knew exactly who it was: a sea pork.
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Sea porks are a species of tunicate, a common type of ocean-dwelling invertebrate. While there are over 3,000 species of tunicates, many people have never heard of them before.
“Tunicates are marine filter feeders whose bodies are basically sacks or tubes that draw in and expel water, thereby snagging tiny particles of floating stuff to eat,” the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History wrote on their website.
According to Daly, you might have come across a tunicate before and just not realized it.
“You often find them washed up on the beach after storms,” Daly explained on Instagram.
The word “tunicate” is derived from the word “tunic,” which was how the person who named them first described their exoskeletons. Among the thousands of species of tunicates, the appearance of their exoskeletons varies widely, earning them a wide variety of nicknames, including sea tulip, sea pineapple, sea liver and … sea pork.
But why was the sea pork the woman came across in the shape of a heart? Because tunicates are invertebrates, they can take on different forms. Sometimes they look elongated, sometimes they look like blobs, and sometimes they have a more defined structure, like a heart shape.
As strange as tunicates may seem, they’re actually not as different from humans as one might expect. Although they’re invertebrates, during their larval stage, they have a structure that’s similar to a spine, which makes them our closest invertebrate relatives — closer than butterflies, crabs and even octopuses.
“By far the wackiest fact about tunicates is that of all marine invertebrates, they are the most closely related to humans and other vertebrates,” the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History wrote.
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Next time you’re on the beach, keep your eyes peeled for washed-up sea pork. If you get really lucky, you might even find one in the shape of a heart.
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