Diagnosis: Furball

The doctor's report is in and it is official - the blogboy (Dogboy) has been diagnosed with barcolepsy:

Bar·co·lep·sy; Pronunced [bahr-kuh-lep-see]– noun. A condition characterized by frequent, spontaneous and uncontrollable periods of annoying barking for no apparent reason.

This is the only possible explanation as to why he, much to the "delight" of DubaiLori (aka mum), is prone to loud oubursts with accompanying leaps to all fours whenever something traumatic happens such as a leaf dropping from a tree ten blocks away or a car passes on the distant freeway.

The worst of it is that hard to keep him focused when he's working on the computer (e.g. blogs).

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[Origin: 1875–80; narco- + (epi)lepsy]

—Related forms
nar·co·lep·tic, adjective, noun