The Adventures of a Seasonal Park Ranger

[fallout-lou-begas]

it's finally that time of the year again for the clinically depressed newscaster describing february with disco elysium music

[fallout-lou-begas]

what is the single best line in this video

it's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is

something great happened here but it's over with and that's the way february is

like the desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore

the expedition is getting desperate. people are throwing things aside

this looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent

nobody is tap dancing or breaking into a rogers and hammerstein song

theyre just barely able to get across the street and hunker over a bowl of chili

most of the birds who can afford it have flown to florida

it's as if there's some awful truth out there in the trees

something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. what is it?

to hide the bleakness of feb., man invented valentine's day. also mardi gras.

what other month can host a holiday designed to remind us we're all gonna die?

Voting ended onFeb 11

character limit forced me to paraphrase

[craymor1]

yeah,

[lackadaisycats]

February in St. Louis. (And in our hearts.)

[strawbunnydoesart]

my hands hurts from shading

[salt-clangen]

Y’all vaccinate your fucking pets for rabies please!

Rant under the cut

I just had to be sent to the ER yesterday for post rabies exposure bc someone brought their literally rabid dog in and several techs (myself Included) were bit trying to get this dog off of another patient in the waiting room.

He was a big doodle mutt attacking this young rottie puppy. We didn’t even realize until afterwards he was showing signs of rabies, he’d been in the clinic for five minutes.

The owner was going on and on about how vaccines kill and we’re just trying to make her dog sick. Turns out he had fought with a raccoon a couple days prior and we think that might’ve been how he was infected.

We had to call cops and animal control bc when we told her our concerns for rabies she said ‘we’ll just test him it’s not a big deal’ and we explained that the rabies test is a post-mortem and he’d have to be euthanize she lost it.

I was already at the hospital for this part bc I need stitches but I did learn before leaving he was likely rabid. So I have to do the post exposure treatment which hurts like hell and isn’t 100% effective.

Another tech wasn’t as lucky as me, she needs surgery and her hand may never recover. The puppy and the puppy’s owner both got bit, the puppy is at the emergency vet bc he got torn up pretty bad, idk if he’s gonna make it.

And the owner tried to leave with her rabid dog (who’s biting HER btw) and told us she wouldn’t surrender him. The cops haven’t told us if they have the dog or not but I’m gonna swing by animal control and see if I can get some info off the record.

TLDR; VACCINATE YOUR PETS ESPECIALLY FOR RABIES

Rabies is a horrible disease and possibly the worst way to die

[salt-clangen]

Update!

The dog has been taken to animal control (different than the city shelter). No word yet on if he’s been euthanized yet but they said we should have rabies results tomorrrow. Not that it matters at this point but it’s standard.

The ac officer I spoke with didnt have any info on whether the owner has been arrested or charged. But he did confirm she had a warrant related to the incident. He said he’ll probe around and see if there’s any new info. Apparently this is one of the worst dog bite incident he’s ever seen and he’s positive we break the record for number of victims of a single event.

Not comforting at all.

We had a lot of people bit/injured:

The owner of the rabid dog

the owner of the puppy

the puppy (who I have no update on)

me

the tech who had to have surgery

a third tech who didn’t get bit but did rip her nail off her index finger trying to pry the rabid dogs mouth open to let go of our coworker’s arm

the receptionist who got bit by the puppy when she managed to get it away from the rabid dog

a fourth tech who got elbowed in the face and her nose broken by the rabid dog’s owner during the scuffle that happened when the dog released the puppy then bit several people then latched onto the second tech

Several other owners in the lobby who had to go to urgent care bc the only way we could get him to release the tech was to spray mace in his face resulting in everyone already listed and like 4 to 7 different owners who were in the small enclosed lobby when we sprayed (genuinely idk if it was actually the citronella dog spray we have for dog fights or if it was someone’s personal mace)

Two dogs in the lobby who got maced

So we have at least a dozen human victims which is so fun. And yes everyone who even sat in the same room as the rabid dog was told to seek medical care as rabies is passed through saliva and mucous membranes and with the way this dog was drooling everywhere and the chaos of it all they are considered exposed. Idk if this means they’ll get the same post exposure treatment as me or anyone who was bitten but even the people who got injured and had their wounds exposed to the dog are being treated just as severely as me.

I’m still at home, ironically I had several days off lined up already by happenstance so I haven’t had to go to work yet. I’m technically due back next Tuesday but my boss said I could stay home longer if I need it, I haven’t decided, my stitches hurt and I just feel like crap but I also don’t wanna use up all my pto and I kinda hate being home so much.

Idk I’ll let y’all know if anything changes

[salt-clangen]

Final update!

The puppy who was attacked passed away on the way to the emergency clinic. The owner blames us bc she believed we should’ve stabilized the puppy before he left, obviously under normal circumstances we would or we would just handle the emergency but given the fact that more than half of the tech team was injured there was no way we could’ve done that. We also only had one dvm on staff that day bc we weren’t doing surgeries and the vet was dealing with the rabid dog and owner.

It’s very unfortunate, but redirected blame is very common in this field and many owners believe there’s always something more the clinic couldve done no matter the situation.

I’m back at work covering the front desk. The receptionist quit, she wasn’t tech trained and has always been squeamish which is fine but everything that happened was too much for her. Totally understand and I wish her well.

All of the techs who were injured have returned except for the one who was maimed and requires more surgery. Idk if she’s planning to return, it was a pretty gnarly attack but I’ve seen techs return to the field for worse so who knows.

The rabid dog’s test came back positive for rabies which surprises no one. He apparently bit more people after leaving our clinic and the owner was able to get all the way home before law enforcement caught up to them. He bit a neighbor teen and the owner’s husband before being captured but animal control is canvassing the town for more potential victims. It’s a small town so chances of any more are slim, we def would’ve heard about it (or someone would’ve shot the dog tbh)

The owners have both been arrested and will be charged with something, idk and idc. Both owners have been admitted to the hospital for exposure treatment. The man will likely improve as he claims he only got bit right before the dog was captured. But the woman has been uncooperative and the rumor is she probably won’t make it. The man is cooperating and may likely get charges dropped, my friends at the shelter say it sounds like he may have been out of town or otherwise not that involved with the dog so there’s a good chance he had nothing to do with this other than marrying a crazy lady. The fact that he willingly went into custody and even asked the officers arresting him to apologize to the victims is a good sign for him but idk.

I don’t expect to have any updates past this but I appreciate y’all letting me vent on here. Im almost done with all my treatments and my stitches should be removed in a few days

[bananabae100]

This is the most insane thing I have read on here for me this year. I am so sorry you had to go through that and I hope you are healing well both physically and mentally after that horrible experience.

GET YOUR PETS VACCINATED

[whitepeopletwitter]

[nynehells]

YOU FORGOT THE BEST PART

[kenway]

travis's face during this whole scene had me ctfuuuu

[shiximi]

Mighty Nein - Part 2 > Done for Critical Role and most recently featured in their 10th anniversary trading card collector's box.

[adhd-alien]

It’s definitely a head empty day for me

[2crit2quit]

🌿🍁🍂

Progress…

[cinnnabunnn]

Hey jsyk it’s 2018 and if you’re still drawing characters with big lips like THIS, even if they’re pale/not black, it’s fucking racist. Stop doing it.

No excuses. “It’s a stylistic choice!” It’s a RACIST stylistic choice.

“Idk how else to draw big lips!” That’s because you relied on racist caricatures and are a bad artist. Teach yourself. Learn. If you’re not willing to do that, then you are a bad, racist artist.

“But it’s part of the character design!” Yeah, and it’s racist. If it’s your OC, then change it. If it’s not your OC, make the right choice and draw them with normal looking bigger lips instead of this racist monstrosity.

And if this post makes you uncomfortable because it’s calling you out for stuff you’ve done, good. Fix it. Own up to it. Grow.

If you see this and you’re first thought is to defend this: you are racist. You are part of the problem. Congrats. Now work on yourself and unlearn that.

[mizgrownnonsense]

Here’s how to do it right:

[mizgrownnonsense]

(some troll gave me shit about only providing overly “feminine” examples. I would have been happy to ignore them…but there are so many great examples on how to draw perfectly acceptable (not racist) full-lipped male characters, in the end, I couldn’t resist.)

[mizgrownnonsense]

Since this is making the rounds again, I’m reblogging the version with both sets of examples.

[prof-peach]

Typical meowth behaviour.

[pettycentral]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

“Ma'am, I understand you need to empty out your desk, but–”

[cryoverkiltmilk]

It has just occurred to me that OP was talking about a breakup.

[sporkinventor]

No wait yours is so much more powerful

[twitblr]

Not much focus on rehabilitation

[lonleyghostposts]

Wow wtf

[bob-belcher]

[jame7t]

it’s fun to stay at the Y

[monster-fucker]

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[jame7t]

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[yahenni]

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[nyxwoven]

*smacks the side of my boom box to get the cd to stop skipping*

[capt-mal-reynolds]

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[edgarallanpoultry]

YOUNG MAN

[alisonzai]

[alisonzai]

[angelicguy]

*young republican voice* i don’t see why my rich, rich, rich rich rich, rich rich rich rich, so fucking rich, father should have to pay for poorer boys school lunches. he could spend that money on a racism machine

[schnellonline]

LOVE those ultra modded skyrim screenshots where someone’s character is this honey select demoness succubus thing and in the background is a regular skyrim guy doing his thing

[schnellonline]

[saman-the-iconoclast]

I can see his expression despite his helmet