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Oct. 20: International Sloth Day, National Day on Writing, National Fetch Day, and Sweetest Day

International Sloth Day! Sloths are slow moving mammals often found in Central and South America. The two major types are the two-toed and three-toed sloths. Their closest relatives are anteaters and armadillos. Sloth Day was created by the foundation AIUNAU, a program dedicated to the conservation and rehabilitation of wildlife in Columbia. AIUNAU first started working with sloths in 1996, and they still do today. In 1995 sloth fossils were found off a coastal desert in Peru and they belonged to a group of sloths called Thalassocnus, who were semiaquatic and lived alongside whales and crocodiles. In the Grand Canyon, in 1941 the Smithsonian curator Remington Kellogg found a substance that turned out to be 100,000 year old sloth decal matter. And it has given researchers insight into their diet and their environment in which they lived. ​Because sloths have a slow metabolic process they usually only relieve themselves once per week. Sloths spend most of their lives in trees. A sloths fur turns green because of a vast ecosystem of moths, bugs, and algae in it, which then camouflage's them in trees. How would you like to be able to turn your head almost 360 degrees, well a three-year sloth can. On the average sloths life span is 10 to 30 years. Sloths may be slow and cute but they can be aggressive and bite, very hard if threatened along with hissing and shrieking.

🖊📝National Day on Writing! The Sumerians of the Akkadian empire, in 3000 BC, developed a writing system based on pressing marks into wet clay using a stylus. Many of these clay tablets survived.​ Rasmus Malling-Hansen invented the first commercially sold typewriter in 1865. Soon, typed correspondence became the standard for every type of writing except personal correspondence. Typing became an invaluable skill. Ray Tomlinson, a computer engineer at MIT, sent an email to a computer sitting right next to him in 1971.

🐕National Fetch Day! “Fetch!” It’s a game as old as time with almost as many variations of equipment. However you play it, fetch is a timeless way to bond with your pup. Dogs and humans have been bonding with each other for 14,000 years. Fetch will also get in the exercise your pup needs. Dogs have an innate instinct to retrieve things that is part of their hunting nature. National Fetch Day was started by Petmate to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its Chuckit launcher. The U.S. owns the most dogs in the world, more than 75 million of them! France ranks #2. Dogs actually get jealous. Studies have shown that your dog can feel jealousy when they see you interacting with another animal. Do you know some pet owners have their pets as their beneficiary in their will. The worlds oldest dog is the Saluki. The breed has been found in Egyptian tombs from as early as 2100 BCE. They were originally trained to help Egyptians catch game. There are 703 breeds of purebreds.

🍭🍬Sweetest Day! In 1921 a committee of 12 confectioners in Cleveland stage the world’s first Sweetest Day by distributing 20,000 boxes of candy. As a result, sweetest day has only ever been celebrated in America’s Midwestern states, and failed to take off on the coasts.

Leaving these for tomorrow. I have to go straighten out the mess I made of the rest of the month.

Sending sweet hugs!🐶🐶🐞🎃👻💕🍂💕