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falseknees

The Seed Song

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pangeen

“ Wellcome To Jurasic World “ // danimunozlandin

Music: Billie Holiday - Solitude

typhlonectes

Marine Iguana

a-book-of-creatures

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

everythingfox

“Turtles helping each other in times of need”

(via)

great-and-small

You can read a bit more about altruism behavior in turtles in the paper “Turtles Are Not Just Walking Stones: Conspicuous Coloration and Sexual Selection in Freshwater Turtles”, Biosemiotics

witchesversuspatriarchy

It’s infuriating how so many women were (and still are) discriminated against for being female

wanderingchaos

she also killed and dissected a rabbit so that her peter rabbit would be as ACCURATE as possible. all the magic of countless children’s childhoods was built upon the bones of a single bunny’s sacrifice. how delightful. how horrific. what necromancer could dream of such impact with a single stroke of their blade.

whetstonefires

(celebrated children’s fantasist) diana wynne jones said that she once wandered into beatrix potter’s yard by accident as a kid and got chased off because beatrix potter disliked children, which really fits into the rest of this quite neatly

marmalarts

hello my hand is gonna fall off

tap for better quality!

ampervadasz

plounce

theflashisgone

I love that the only thing that slows it down is being too fucking tiny to make the teeter totter tilt the other way.

raygender

@surprisedentistry

avoiding-claws

You work in an emergency hospital

Con: Your patient is critical

Pro: You can keep your hands all toasty under their heated air blanket

moreclaypigeons

The mountain goats song about extinct animals <\3 sirs I cannOt do this

Deuteronomy 2:10 // The Mountain Goats

Thylacine / Dodo bird / Golden toad / Kauaʻi ʻōʻō

whitepeopletwitter

myjetpack

for yesterday’s @gdnsaturday https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ6cN7lsMQ-/?utm_medium=tumblr

sosuperawesome

Needle Felted and Embroidered Art Hoops

Yuliya Krishchik on Etsy

general-moka

@dans-les-etoiles

theexoticvet-deactivated2022070

“I’ve always wanted to be a veterinarian, but I couldn’t have tolerated animals in pain and I couldn’t have euthanized them.”

"Veterinarians dwell in moral distress. We provide subtherapeutic care for pets with wholly treatable diseases. We are requested to perform excessive and clinically unrewarding treatment in the face of a poor prognosis. We have few ethics consultation groups to lean on. We are often asked to perform painful cosmetic and convenience procedures on our patients. We are challenged by individuals who question our Aesculapian authority as veterinarians. We are asked to relinquish, help re-home or euthanize healthy patients. These just encompass a fraction of the ethical dilemmas that induce moral distress in veterinarians."

I've discussed my feelings on euthanasia on this blog several times. Personally, euthanasia itself doesn't upset me. Yes I feel sad that my patient is gone. Yes, I feel sad for my clients who have to go home without their pet. But I don't feel like euthanasia is a failure. Most of the time I feel like I was able to provide a dignified, painless, stress free, death. Euthanasia is the penultimate tool in my tool box to end disease and pain.

Even when I have patients that could have been helped but for various reasons I was unable to do so and the owners choose euthanasia I still feel like I have made a positive difference. Would I rather that pet be happy, healthy and alive? Of course. But if the choice is alive and in pain and misery or dead but at peace, I want my patient to be at peace.

I interact with many vets who simply hate doing euthanasias. Each one eats away at them. Even worse is when vets simply won't euthanize. So many times I have seen pets in horrible shape and the owners are in equally terrible shape. They have spent hundreds or thousands of dollars on tests, pills, surgeries, and none are helping. Sometimes they haven't spent much money at all because they simply don't have it. I talk with them and realize that not only is their pet suffering with no hope of getting better but the owners themselves are miserable. These pets have become physical, mental, or financial burdens and no one is happy. When I discuss euthanasia with them often I am the first person to ever bring it up. They had no idea it was an option or wanted to discuss it but their vet shut them down. Many of these patients have diseases that cannot be cured or adequately managed and the owners have no idea either. They often are led to believe that just another medication or another surgery might make the difference. These veterinarians aren't inherently bad people but they have been led to believe that euthanasia is a failure and they will not accept it. The true failure was not advocating for the patient and allowing the suffering to continue.

What gives me moral distress is when I am not allowed to help a patient at all. Often I see cases that are so far gone we only have two options: a very expensive treatment or euthanasia. Owners will not choose either option. This is what keeps me up at night. I don't dwell on the patients that passed peacefully with my help. The patients that haunt me are those that are alive and I can't help. Patients with end stage cancer that is eating them alive from the inside and the owners only want antibiotics. Patients with chronic pain that would bring most of us to our knees, begging for death or relief, and the owners only want a nail trim. The patients that no amount of advocating, explaining, and sometimes pleading with owners will allow me to help. Often they'll go elsewhere and I'll see that some other vet has been prescribing antibiotics for the last several months. They aren't helping. The pet isn't getting better. But the owner demands antibiotics so they get them. It's easier I suppose. Several times I'll get a nasty review saying I wanted to "kill" their pet. People will agree its awful and say what a nasty vet I am. They hope someone kills me when I need help. Never mind that the patient is skin and bones because it can't eat. At least its alive.

Sometimes I feel like my brain has a crypt for the euthanized patients. Once in a while I think about them but generally they just rest. The ones that I can't help though-those are on parade. They don't get to rest in life or in my mind.

Until the veterinary profession starts teaching vets and owners that euthanasia isn't failure and we stop allowing ourselves to be treated poorly by owners, the moral distress will continue.

kirianthedivorce

Absolutely losing it at this Reddit post

And the update

She buttered Jorts

anoonzee

The outrage summed in a perfect Tweet:

notemily

FINALLY

I've been collecting the best Jorts tweets and waiting until the moment he showed up on my dash to post them. So here you are, the curated best of the past, oh, day or so: