U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, a man with a jumping banana inside his head, isn’t known for his ability to organize his thoughts, focus on what’s going on around him, or even remember how many medals he’s won. But he knows how old his dog, Carter, is: 8 years old.
And Ryan tweets it every year.
https://twitter.com/wholegrainne/status/790296957520445440
Something’s not quite adding up here. Carter the dog has been eight years old for three consecutive years, something that’s hard to explain unless: time travel? Fountain of youth? Or: Ryan Lochte bad at math.
Lochte seems to have lost track of his dog’s age, and some people apparently follow his doggie birthday tweets closely enough that they noticed the discrepancy. So how old is Carter really, barring some accident of weird, time-bending science?
Probably 9 years old. The one time Lochte mentioned a specific birthdate for Carter, it was in 2007. And when he corrected his tweet over the weekend after being called out on it by dog age truthers, he changed Carter’s age to 9.
https://twitter.com/RyanLochte/status/790300062345629700
Lochte has lied, misremembered, or told half-truths to get out of bad situations in the past, though. There’s no telling how deep this ageless dog conspiracy goes, or what else the government could be hiding in Ryan Lochte’s reliably unreliable brain.
What’s the alternative? Believing a man forgot his beloved dog’s age multiple times over a period of years? Ooooh-kay, whatever you say.