1) the counter will be lost at power fail
I forgot to mention that this value will be saved
in memory... to keep a record
2) you should NEVER have the dog bite you, counting instances make no sense when ONE is too many.
If I understand it right the dog will never byte
unless something fails the program, because I will
be feeding it very often as I am doing now in the
main loop.

Do I have the right idea here?

Have a good weekend
same to you!

J.C.