But politely — in latest debate PET CHRONICLES IT’S MARCH MADNESSSSSSSS!!!!!!! I cannot believe it is here already and in full swing. We survived our fi rst week of March and I can tell you is was insane. Last week between a sick kid with infl uenza A and B at the same time and work and everything it was nuts. This weekend Spring Break kicks off with the Brewers Dinner tonight, Kona Brewers Festival, and the Run for Hops on Saturday, and the Dragon Hill Climb on Sunday. I’m sure I am missing something or many things but that is what lies ahead for this weekend. Next week, is not much better and I am sure I will have dogs and cats galore clambering for our attention. Well, everyone except Pike, he is too busy watching Harry Potter. If he suddenly levitates an object or casts a spell I would not even be surprised. There must be something about the movies he really likes because he sits there watching the TV like he knows just what is happening. After watching them all like 12 million times last week while I was home with a sick kid I would imagine he does. Bamboo is as bad as they get lately so perhaps he can cast a spell on her to be nice and stop tormenting poor Jenner and knocking all the paperwork on Dr. Head’s Desk on the fl oor. She dumps the whole pile as if it was supposed to land in a total heap, then she jumps down and lays on it all like it was all part of her plan. She is just so naughty. The other day she knocked poor old Jenner’s bed off the top of the dryer and onto the fl oor. I found him laying directly on the top of the dryer trying to spread out a clean towel from the laundry basket to lay on. She was in the laundry basket laying on the other end of the towel to keep him from using it. Rome has also been up to no good. BARKING and barking (we call it back talking) when we ask him to move or behave and he gives us a bark, I say “you watch your mouth”. He barks to get let out then immediately barks to come in just to bark to go right back out again. This is unacceptable behavior and his dad Dr. Head refused to let him back out so he sat there starring at him and barking at him. Then turned around and scratch the door. He got sent to his bed in the offi ce and the baby gate closed and no treats for the rest of the day. When we got home Dr. Head sent him straight to his bed after dinner. Not that it helped the next day he did the same thing. Which brings me to Queso. Queso is still plotting how to murder Bamboo and tries to kill her at least once if not two or three times per day. She has lost a bit of weight and can slide under the baby gate into the offi ce “Dukes of Hazard” style to avoid him in a hurry. Pike tries to eat him if he gets too close to the gate so Bamboo lives to see another hour in Queso’s constant quest to kill her. I feel like our whole animal kingdom is set to bad lately. I hope we can get through the craziness that is this month without too much trouble. The rest of the month is going to stay crazy with family coming to visit, the Hilo 1/2 Marathon on the 20th, the Mac-a-thon 26th, then Easter and our 12th wedding anniversary on the 27th. This will throw us right into April for a quick trip to Oahu for Dr. Head for the HVMA meeting on the 3rd, then the PATH Sunset 5K on the 8th and then Lavaman on the 10th to round out the next 5 weeks of craziness. Come out and cheer us on and take part in some of the fun community events. Then hold on tight…I know I will. 808-322-2988/Fax 808-322-2303 7:30-5:00 Monday-Friday 78-6728 Walua Road • Kailua Kona www.keauhouvet.com 8-5 pm on Saturday Emergency call 24/7 Pike Jacob Head, DVM Prices good Friday & Saturday only! 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In a lengthy discussion of the threat posed by radicalized Muslims, Trump refused to back away from his recent statement that “Islam hates the West.” He said he wouldn’t stoop to being “politically correct” by avoiding such statements. Rubio had a sharp comeback: “I’m not interested in being politically correct. I’m interested in being correct.” The Florida senator noted the Muslims in the U.S. military and buried in Arlington National Cemetery and said the only way to solve the problem of violent extremists is to work with people in the Muslim faith who are not radicals. Cruz bundled together his criticisms of Trump for what he called simplistic solutions on trade and on Islamic terrorists, saying, “The answer is not to simply yell, ‘China: bad, Muslim: bad.’” Trump, though, clearly was intent on projecting a less bombastic — and more presidential — image. His closing message: “Be smart and unify.” “We’re all in this together,” he said early on, sounding more like a conciliator than a provocateur as he strives to unify the party behind his candidacy. “We’re going to come up with solutions. We’re going to find the answer to things.” The candidates split down the middle — Trump and Texas Sen. Cruz vs. Florida Sen. Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — on the likelihood of the GOP race coming down to a brokered Republican convention this summer. “I think I’m going to have the delegates, OK?” Trump said. As for who has a realistic chance of winning the nomination, Trump simply wrote off Rubio and Kasich, saying, “There are two of us that can, and there are two of us that cannot, OK?” Cruz heartily agreed with Trump on that. Rubio countered that disappointing “delegate math” aside, he’d keep on fighting. Kasich, for his part, said it wouldn’t be so bad to have a contested convention. He added there are plenty of primaries left so “let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” Trump’s rivals, in a desperate scramble to halt his march to the nomination, gradually ramped up their criticism as the night wore on. Rubio’s overarching message: “I know that a lot of people find appeal in the things Donald says. The problem is presidents can’t just say anything they want because it has consequences around the world.” Cruz, eager to cement his position as the party’s last best alternative to Trump, had a string of criticisms of the GOP front-runner, too, saying flatly at one point: “His solutions don’t work.” BY NANCY BENAC AND JULIE BYKOWICZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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