#vierranliveshere

[kedreeva]

My new therapist is kicking my ass in the best possible way, including making me learn to accept compliments. In that vein, I am proud of the work I am putting in to have the life I want to have, and proud of the love and care I show for my family and loved ones.

I like your therapist, they’re doing a good job! And so are you!!

The Māui dolphin is the most endangered dolphin in the world, with less than 60 of them left.

The Paradise Tree Snake, one of three flying snakes, is thought to actually control their “flight” after slow-motion photography revealed that their heads stay relatively stable instead of wiggling with the rest of their body.

(To those reading, while you are welcome to still send me kind thoughts you have about yourself, I am will not be answering new asks with animal facts)

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Do any of you have experience with nasal cancer treatment in dogs? Our family dog had a nasal endoscope and biopsy yesterday, and while we don't have biopsy results back, apparently the tumor was quite large. Obviously, we will be consulting with an oncologist about a specific treatment plan, but I'm the kind of person who likes to know everything I can about health issues. So: what treatments have you seen, how did they affect the dog's quality of life, any thoughts on what might be best?

vet-and-wild here.

It depends on what kind of tumor it is. Lymphoma and a nasal adenocarcinoma are going to respond differently to different treatments. I have seen some animals receive radiation therapy for nasal tumors with success, but again, it depends on the tumor type and stage. There are side effects of radiation and chemo in pets but it doesn’t tend to be as severe as in humans. There’s a difference in dosing for a dog that has a natural lifespan of 13 years and a human who could live well into their 80s or 90s. That doesn’t mean there aren’t side effects, but sometimes people do shy away because of their experience with human chemo or radiation and it really isn’t quite the same. The decision on whether or not to pursue treatment depends on what kind of treatment is needed, if it is a type of tumor that responds to treatment, finances, comorbidities, owner compliance, and often the age of the animal. For many tumors, radiation/chemo can greatly increase survival time. But it’s generally expensive and a heavy emotional burden for a lot of owners.

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kissmeagainarthas replied to your photo “Deebs and Dot hope you all have a warm bed to sleep well on tonight!”

It's supposed to snow here tomorrow so tonight I expect to be cuddled by a similar pair of noodle-butts.

NOODLEBUTTS. What a great name for cats. :D Because their tails are like noodles! 

daroos replied to your post “I call it the Starbucchiato”

you have betrayed the human race

Oh I started in on that years ago. 

vierranliveshere replied to your photo “Deebs and Dot hope you all have a warm bed to sleep well on tonight!”

They are so Cat! Hardly Kitten at all!

They’ve gotten pretty Catlike these last few weeks :D They’re still only 10 months old, but they’re definitely getting to be big kids now! 

grandilloquism replied to your photo “Deebs and Dot hope you all have a warm bed to sleep well on tonight!”

Their collars are SO good! Love rocker chick Polk and Sophisticate Dearborn ��

I’m very pleased with them. :D I wasn’t sure about the plaid collar but it looks lovely on her. 

mythologist replied to your post “I call it the Starbucchiato”

I am intrigued but I'd probably look for the 'real' sugar soda because that artificial sugar stuff tastes really weird to me :))

Ah, see, I was raised on the fake stuff, so the sugar soda is SO sweet it’s almost bitter. 

[kedreeva]

Today I am being kind to myself by taking care of a responsibility I had been postponing/avoiding. Now I will have one less stressor looming over my head, and I will be able to feel more confident in similar situations in the future, because yes, I can do it, and it can be okay!

ohhhhh Yes!! good job!! You’ve got this!!

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My friend's dog bit him hard enough to break skin yesterday. This is not the first time it has happened. The dog woke up because she needed to go out, he got up and started putting her harness on, and she bit. The dog has chronic pain and a history of abuse. My friend is inclined to not worry too much about this behavior. I am inclined to be Very Concerned. Friend has been convinced to call his vet and seek recommendations for a behaviorist. Am I right to think a dog who breaks skin is not okay?

There is probably something better which can be done for that done, and a review of her pain management would be high on the list.

If in doubt I tend to look at pain first before a behavior problem, because pain is faster to treat and it’s amazing what adequate pain relief does for a temperament. It’s also easier for me to assess a body than a brain.

Without knowing the dog or her body language it’s hard to know how concerned one should be. It’s not difficult for a larger dog to break skin even with a warning bite, and if it was a warning bite followed by appeasement behavior I could believe it was an accident. But I would need to know a lot more about the dog and the situation to judge that.

- Dr Ferox

[kedreeva]

Does the god know what will happen if I swallow the marble?

The god knows part of what will happen when you swallow the marble.

[copperbadge]

trilobitey replied to your post “It’s not that Return of the Jedi is in any way comparable to the...”

These were in the original cut. It was wild.

I actually saw the original cut! 

It’s kind of mind-blowing to me, in fact, that the original cuts are so hard to find that people automatically assume I saw the Special Editions. I don’t blame you, clearly it’s like a thing, but I had an amazing number of people ask me where I got them and if I’d share them. They are on torrent, but admittedly they’re not exactly easy to find. I had people who teach film studies ask for them so they could finally show Theatrical Release/Special Edition comparisons in class.

It’s just so bizarre to me that the...well, the owner, I suppose, of this set of narratives, dislikes his perfectly good original versions so much that he’s made it impossible for people who like his stories to even find them. I can’t think of another canon where such a deliberate effort has been made to keep people away from such a giant chunk of the material. I’m sure some of it is circumstance, IE we changed media formats from VHS to DVD relatively shortly after the films were made, but it’s not like it would have been hard to simply release already-extant footage along with the new stuff on DVD. 

nazi-puncher-1918 replied to your post “It’s not that Return of the Jedi is in any way comparable to the...”

It's probably the crazy Jim Henson influence.

That actually makes a lot of sense -- all of those scenes I mentioned would be 100% normal and I wouldn’t think twice about them if I saw them in a Muppets movie. It’s the high-fantasy strong-narrative drama element that makes them seem so out of place. 

saperele replied to your post “The Star War Has Ended”

I'm sure someone else has said this in the comments, but if you want Space Oceans Eleven with Han Solo, read Scoundrels by Timothy Zahn. It's pretty good! https://www.amazon.com/Scoundrels-Star-Legends-Timothy-Zahn/dp/0345511514

Thanks! I can’t promise I’ll get to it immediately but it’s going in my queue! 

vierranliveshere replied to your post “Will you be doing a Star Wars Movie Marathon review when this is all...”

Maybe a Three Things? I miss Three Things

Oddly enough, without meaning to that’s kind of what I did! 

I should start doing Three Things again. I stopped because if I happened to say anything even remotely controversial or analytical I’d end up getting dogpiled in comments, and there’s no real fun in not actually providing any analysis when I do media commentary. On Tumblr it might tone down the “am I really going to have this argument for the fifteenth time in this same post” element that was so joy killing on LJ/DW.