Last night Griffin was on one of his licking spurts. This was by no means unusual; he will settle in and start licking our hand, foot, clothes, or whatever for minutes on end on a daily basis.
Got me wondering when Griffin was going to pass the one-million-lick mark. Or had he?
We counted -- Griffin's licking rate is about 75 licks per minute. His spurt last night lasted about 2 and a half minutes, so that's, say, 200 licks. (We're going for a ballpark here, so let's use nice round numbers.) And that was just his spurt -- there were probably another 100 or so miscellaneous licks throughout the day, between Andy, me, himself, the doorframe, the ice on the ground, etc. (He's not that discriminating about his hobby.) So let's just say that he licked about 300 licks yesterday, and call that an average day for him.
Griffin is now two years and three months old. That's approximately 800 days. So 800 days times 300 licks per day gives us a grand total of... 240 000 licks! That's like a quarter of a million!
So then Griffin went for a drink of water.
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