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Blue footed boobies, to be exact.
According to our friends at wikipedia:
The name “booby” comes from the Spanish term bobo, which means “Stupid”. This is because the Blue-footed Booby is clumsy on the land. Like other seabirds, they can be very tame.
The courtship of the Blue-footed Booby consists of the male flaunting his blue feet and dancing to impress the female. During the dance, the male will spread his wings and stamp his feet on the ground.
The males of the species have been known to throw up their head and …

Please help me not to murder this dog for sinking his razor teeth into my toes and thinking that my yelling in pain and screaming “NO BITE! NO BITE! NO! NO! OH MY GOD THAT HURTS SO BAD! NO!” means bite harder and more ferociously because this is such a fun game.

Also, can you ask him to stop eating everything he isn’t supposed to, like the cats and dust and stray cat litter and leaves and mud and my clothes and anything on the ground in reach of his hoover-like …

That title would be funnier if I’d managed to write anything in the last six months that was worth reading. Sorry babies, Mama’s having a bit of a dry spell, like that one time from 1991-1999, only worse.
Have no fear, my ladies and gentlemen! I have several ideas for you to point your cervix at and click.
If you read Bake and Shake (if you don’t, and you won’t consider clicking on that link, I don’t want to know you because you probably hate kitties, puppies and babies, too …