Meet Dogot

I need to introduce you to Dogot now. Dogot is Merebith's assistant (apparently she does get to sleep now and then!). Dogot is a dog robot--a dalmation dog robot to be exact. When he was new, he had training wheels, but now he has just one wheel as you can see in the picture. He wheels himself around and relieves Merebith of her duties when she is sleeping or busy with something else. Because he is on wheels, his bed is just a chair with armrests (without the seat) that he backs up into. Why armrests? Because Dogot can make his arms pop out if he needs them (can you imagine the sound effects that Meredith makes when she describes him?). When he talks, he sounds like a robot.

Recently, Meredith told me that at Merebith's computer where she has to edit Meredith's movies (more on that later), her mouse pad is a picture of Dogot with his first parts. "First parts?" I ask. She told me that as Dogot grows, he gets new parts. He will have gone through about five sets of parts by the time he is full grown. The level of detail to her imagination astounds me. I mean, Merebith--her mental assistant--has a dog robot assistant whose "baby" picture is on the mouse pad of her computer where she edits Meredith's mental movies. C'mon people!