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Melissa Carleton
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Lawyer for institutions of higher education. Special interest in Title IX and FERPA. Genealogist, Queen fan. Likely to break into song at any moment. She/her. Opinions mine.
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Floofy Great Pyranees enjoys scritches
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Adventures in Kansas City
Melissa Carleton stands with the metal cast of Satchel Paige, the Kansas City Monarchs player, as displayed in the Negro Leagues museum Poppies at the WWI museum. One poppy for each 1,000 deaths. 9,000 poppies. A display of the trenches at the WWI museum. This shows a soldier huddled in a muddy tent with a rat at his feet. Only his legs are visible as he takes cover. Georgia O'Keefe at the art museum
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Timeline cleanse
Maizey is not a dog. She is a pile of white floof loosely arranged into dog form, with floppy ears and an attitude.
September 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Sleep positioning (tongue out)
A black flat-coated retriever named Matilda sleeps peacefully on her bed, belly up, legs in the air, tongue out. Ah, that we could all be so chill.
August 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Mmmmm Katzinger's
Apricot Noodle Kugel and a Becker's Belt Em egg salad sandwich
August 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We got to see the baby rhino at the Wilds yesterday!
A mama plated rhino hangs out with her baby. Photo taken from the backside. This photo was taken at thr Wilds, a sister zoo of the Columbus Zoo, which is about an hour and a half east of Columbus, Ohio.
August 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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New haircut!
Melissa Carleton, a middle aged woman with blonde and grey hair that is now wavy and cut in a very short bob. She has glasses and is wearing a lavender suit.
June 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Watkins Glen
A waterfall peeks through forest greenery Water erodes its way through a gorge
June 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This pup

Ate my couch
An innocent looking but very guilty white fluffy puppy puts her paws down on some fluff she has extracted inappropriately
May 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Morning snuggles with the floofy alligator
A white floofy puppy sits nobley on the couch snuggled up in a white blanket. Two seconds after this photo, biting was involved.
May 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Zoom calls wear her out
A white floofy puppy is passed out in the floor in the middle of a living room turned puppy playroom
May 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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This chonker gained 8 pounds in two weeks
A 30 pound white half Husky half Great Pyranees puppy smiles a silly grin from a floofy face
May 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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This amount of floof is simply unacceptable
A half Husky half Great Pyranees white floofy puppy lays on a wood floor. The floofiness is outrageous.
May 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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What do you get when you cross an alligator with a ball of sentient fluff?

I don't know, but we call her Maizey. Welcome to the household, pupper.
A half Hisky half Great Pyranees white floof of a dog chews on a bone in my backyard (instead of my arm for once)
May 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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My dog needs a dog
A black flat-coated retriever named Matilda is depressed from losing her puppy son to chronic pneumonia two weeks ago. Looks like she needs a friend.
April 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Timeline cleanse
A brown tabby named Ramsey looks expectantly at the camera holder. No, Ramsey, it is not time to eat.
April 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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We had to say goodbye to my puppy today, unexpectedly. Please send dog pictures if you have a moment. I am heartbroken.

Nemo was a Very Good Boy.
Nemo, a black flat-coated retriever German shepherd puppy. He was the best snoot.
April 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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This morning, the docs intend to operate on him to remove a lobe of his lung and a bolus that has developed. Please send good thoughts our way so my puppy can come home soon!
Nemo gives side eye on the back porch while Matilda, in her post-spay onesie, chills nearby
April 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Two nights ago, Nemo became very sick with a 107.5 fever. The hospital packed him with ice and put him on antibiotics. This was terrifying, but also may be the catalyst for figuring out why he is always sick.
Very sleepy puppy - he was not sick at this point. Spent his evenings looking adorable.
April 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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He came home and went through endless rounds of antibiotic treatments. He wasn't contagious anymore but just could not kick the pneumonia.

We joked that is how he got his name - NEMOnia.
Nemo with his mother, Matilda, who we also adopted
April 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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My puppy, Nemo, was a rescue pup. He had pneumonia almost from birth. Two days after adopting him, he went into the hospital. He was a tiny thing.
Nemo the tiny black and tan puppy
April 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The dogs are doing this thing where they wake up at 5:00 and demand to be let out, then refuse to go back to bed.

Instead they climb onto the couch and fall asleep there.

I have a nice warm bed upstairs but am stuck down here. 😭
Matilda the black flat-coated retriever snoozes on a loveseay in front of the fishtank. She has not a care that I am very tired.
February 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The puppy is on my lap while I am trying to read. Nonproductive,but he is warm so he can stay.
Nemo the half German Shepherd half flat coated retriever puppy munches on a Muppet like flamingo on my lap. His mother stands nearby. No productivity in this photo.
January 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Nemo the German Shepherd flat coated retriever puppy has questions for you. That is why he is cocking his head with his floppy ears. A sleepy grey and black striped tabby kitten bleps for you
January 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I ordered pizza not realizing the football game was tonight. I may never eat. At least the cat is cozy.
Ramsey the tabby kitten snoozer on my lap on a white fuzzy blanket
January 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM