All the links from the White House website are gone, but the Affordable Care Act is still in effect, and you can sign up for health insurance until January 31.
Trump and his cronies may want to kill it, but that takes time (especially now that key players are waffling and the insurance industry have noticed that it will rain chaos down upon them). So sign yourself up. Get in a free checkup, a round of antibiotics, a birth control implant, while you have the chance.
If anyone needs help applying, ping me.
TodavĂa puede inscribirle en Obamacare. Si necesita auyuda, pĂdame.
Would you all mind boosting this? I donât usually ask, but Obamacare is a big deal for me. I havenât had to dose anyone with veterinary antibiotics in years, and I really want to keep it that way.
thereâs no shame in just blocking people. thereâs no shame in just deleting messages in your inbox that you donât want to or canât answer. itâs easy to feel like you have to acknowledge and respond to every person who addresses you on this website but you absolutely do not, and you should not if itâs negatively impacting your mental health.
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For those who canât go to the link, the following is what it says:
FYI, none of this is mine. It was posted by Bilton veterinary centre, the same one as in the picture. All credit goes to them but I felt it was important to get word out about some of the breeds of dogs that are riddled with health problems. If you own a pug thatâs perfectly healthy thatâs cool, but itâs doesnât change the fact that an alarming number of short nosed (almost no nosed at this point) dogs have extreme difficulty with tasks like breathing and blinking.
 "So I am going to have a rant now and I apologise in advance if this upsets anyone, but here goes.
  Last week, I managed to reduce a lovely family to floods of tears.  They had brought their new dog in to come and see me.  There was a young lady, her husband and their two children of about 8 or 9 years old and they were all already absolutely besotted with their new pet - their first dog, and they had been planning it for several years.
  The dog was a 5-month-old French Bulldog that they had picked up from a breeder about 4 weeks previously.  They were concerned that their new dog may have âa chillâ as the dog had sore runny eyes,  difficulty in eating and kept making a choking sound.  They had also noticed the dog had a âfunny smellâ about him. As I examined the dog it became quickly apparent what was occurring and my heart sank.
  This dog was yet another increasingly popular âshort-nosedâ breed that was suffering horribly from a myriad of problems - all related to its poor breeding and its unfortunate anatomy. After the examination, I found that this dog had:Â
 - Eyeballs too big for its eye sockets. So much so, that when he blinked, the eyelids didnât fully cover the eyeballs.  (Imagine going out on a windy day and not being able to blink!) This had resulted in deep painful ulcers forming on both eyes that in the short term would require intensive treatment and could feasibly result in the rupture of one or both eyeballs.Â
 - The bones forming the front of his face (the maxilla) were so squashed by virtue of this style of this breed (called the brachycephalics), that the soft-tissue structures of the throat are compressed and forced backwards -  obstructing his larynx.  Amongst other things, his soft palate was so elongated (relative to his skull) that it kept getting trapped over his wind-pipe.
 -His nostrils were completely occluded, so absolutely no airflow was possible through his nose.  All of his breathing had to take place through his open mouth.  This meant that whilst he was eating/sleeping he was going through bouts of asphyxiation and so would have to spit the food out or wake up and open his mouth - purely so he would be able to breathe.  This explained the âchokingâ sound that there were hearing all the time.  He could just manage to breathe with his mouth open, but this then exacerbated the problems with his soft palate.
 - The skin fold over the top of the nose (caused by the squashed face involuting the skin) had caused a crevice of around 2-3 cms deep, where the skin was rubbing against its self.  In this area, the skin was ulcerated and was full of liquid pus.  It was this that the owners were smelling.  This was incredibly painful for the animal and he cried every time I tried to clean it.
 -The skin around his feet, ears, armpits and groin was red raw and inflamed.  He clearly was very itchy and had been licking at these areas repeatedly - which had, in turn, made them more sore and painful.  This is very typical of a condition called âatopyâ which is very common in many breeds, particularly the Bulldogs (French and English). So at this point, the shocked owners asked what needed to be done to sort him out.
  So I had to explain that he would need:Â
 - Bilateral eyelid shortening surgery that would allow the dog to blink properly and prevent further ulcers from forming.  As well as long-term medication to improve the quality of his tears.
 - Complex soft tissue surgery of the back of the throat to, (amongst other things) shorten his soft palate to facilitate his breathing.
 - He would need both of his nostrils opening up so as to allow adequate air flow to be possible to allow him to breathe/exercise/eat/sleep properly.
 -He would need a âface-liftâ to remove a large amount of excess skin on the front of his face, to try and open up the fold that was causing so much infection and pain.
 -He may need allergy testing, food trials, anti-inflammatories etc to try and manage the atopic skin disease that he has.Â
 *He needs all of this fairly urgently. Â
 *He canât have all of this done at once and so will require several anaesthetics and complex procedures to be done over a period of time.  Â
*He is only 5 months old.Â
*He needs all of this doing - just so that he can live a vaguely normal life. Â Â
*HE IS SUFFERING.Â
 Also - he is not insured.  It transpired that the new owners looked into insurance but the premium was so high for this breed, that they felt they couldnât afford it.  To move forward, he would have to go to a specialist veterinary unit (sadly recently set up to deal with the increasing number of very poorly brachycephalic dogs with extreme conformational issues) and this treatment could cost upwards of ÂŁ8,000 to correct.
 Once I had discussed all this with the owners - they were understandably distraught.  They had hoped for a âcuteâ and âcuddlyâ family pet that they had seen examples of spread throughout popular media.  They had no idea that these problems even existed.  Instead, they now have a much-loved dog that is miserable, has a long journey ahead of it and one that they cannot afford to have fixed.
 The family left the room in floods of tears, armed with medication that would temporarily alleviate some of the symptoms and try to make the poor little dog more comfortable.  From what I have later found out, this dog has gone to a rescue centre to be rehomed.  It may have moved away, but its problems most certainly will not have done.
 Pugs, Frenchies, English Bulldogs and Shar-Peis are amongst the breeds which are increasingly being abandoned in vast numbers as people cannot cope with their ongoing problems, illnesses and costs.  It upsets us all hugely when we see how many of the problems frequently associated with these breeds are now classed as ânormalâ. I will commonly hear âOh it is normal for this breed to struggle with A, B or Câ. NO IT ISNâT NORMAL!
 These trendy flat-faced breeds are some of the most expensive puppies to currently buy.  There is serious money for people who sell a litter of these puppies and so the incentive to breed is VERY high.  It must be said that there are responsible breeders who are trying to âback-breedâ these types of dogs to have longer noses, smaller eyes, more open nostrils etc and try to reduce the incidence of these conditions, and these people should be applauded.  However, puppy farms and irresponsible owners are rife, and these âbreedersâ donât seem to care a jot about the long-term prognosis and what the future holds for âtheirâ breed.Â
 It is also worth noting that many of these breeds are unable to give birth naturally now too (due to the shape of the puppyâs skulls) and so the mothers often go through multiple caesareansâŚÂ
 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP AND THINK before you buy.  Come and talk to US about the breeds that you are interested in - and we shall give you the whole picture.
 I am completely exhausted and totally demoralised seeing these type of problems on a daily basis.  There are enough horrible illnesses, diseases and potential accidents out there without being destined to be unwell before you are even born.
  Whilst people are still buying these dogs, people will still breed them and the problem will never go away.â
Ronda Rousey is getting 3 million dollars for getting her ass beat while Amanda Nunes is getting $100,00 even tho she won which just goes to show that White Women⢠will always be rewarded for mediocrity while WOC who work twice as hard do not even get the attention they deserve.
Second, Rousey made $3M because sheâs a household name which draws in tickets. If Nunes was a household name she would've made nearly the same amount. Nothing to do with race, but popularity.
Stick to what you know and letâs leave reaching back in 2016.Â
This post was for the notes and brownie points. This would be like saying â Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio wasnât even the star of the movie but made 15 mil while first time black actor Marsh Jones only made 2 mil. How dare a vastly more recognized actor with clout make more than someone I didnât know existed?â
supports hunting and trapping, but never poachingÂ
vehemently opposes PETAâs insane propaganda and every nutcase animal rights/activism organization
supports animal conservation and animal welfare to the very best of scientific understanding
opposes unnecessary and ultimately harmful anthropomorphism, or the belief that non-human animals experience complex human-like emotion and rationality unbefitting their species and capacityÂ
supports vital population control and natural habitat preservation
fuckin loves finding, collecting, salvaging and supporting any fellow vultureâs hobby guys come on this shouldnât be some kind of screaming match keep your stupid disneyeque ethics nonsense to yourself
seriously keep your animal rights shit off my dash thanks
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