You can also look for meat and dairy with the seal Animal Welfare Approved (the best one) or Certified Humane - and from local farms if possible, if it’s within your ability to do so. That’s how I appease my inner crazy-animal-lady while not being vegetarian, for what it’s worth!

Definitely giving my BPD mother a run for her money here. Before my wedding she sent up some insane old lady ceramic serving platters with religious phrases on them, then refused to come to the wedding because she’d have to see a family member she doesn’t like. The rage I flew into at this resulted in an extremely…

We moved around a lot when I was growing up, and it wasn’t always easy to make friends, especially when we moved from the south to the north and everyone made fun of my accent, which I eventually dropped. One girl in my 5th grade class had a birthday party and invited every girl in the class except for me (I didn’t…

Yes! I have a dress that's cut very similarly to that and it looks great. V neck is high enough not to cause a cleavage issue. Though in general I find scoop neck/round neck to be more flattering...

Haha - YES - this was spectacularly terrible advice. First of all, a surplice top is just going to make it look like you're smuggling cantaloupes each in their own separate hammock. It's extremely unflattering, shows way too much cleavage, and makes the boobs look even bigger. Not what we're going for! And the Halter…

Hah! They do tend to be a conversation killer, don't they?

I work with abused and neglected animals of all kinds. There are many, many people in this country who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a companion animal. This article goes into why banning a specific breed isn't the answer - it's not anecdotal and not based on specific love or hatred of a certain breed, just…

That's definitely a big part of the problem, although I do see a lot of animals who had loving, responsible owners lose their homes as well due to owner illness, death, loss of income, or inability to find dog friendly home. Many discriminatory housing practices result in homeless animals. There are people on both…

Most people's hearts are in the right place, it is really hard to work/volunteer with those animals and not become overwhelmed with how sad it is and how enormous the epidemic is. We'd love to save them all, but ~3.5M are euthanized annually in the US. Lack of awareness coupled with myths about shelter dogs/certain…

That is awesome! I will totally get one of those and plug it amongst my crazy dog person community.

Haha - this is why I never judge people just based on the animal they have walking around. Lots of doggies come into the shelter already docked and cropped!

Ultimately, I think that my positive interactions with people who approach my friendly dog and ask where I got him do much more to promote positive ideas of dog adoption than anything else I might try to do. I do wish that more people in the animal community would try to show by example versus engage in fruitless…

Sounds like a nice family! I've worked on a farm myself and I totally get that. I do think it's a small percentage of the people using breeders who are truly using them for working animals, but I consider it a totally separate issue and would never personally conflate it with the "adopt don't shop" philosophy. Most…

Not trying to make you feel guilty, obviously you have adopted dogs and feel good about that choice as well. People who really want breed dogs can look at rescues first as well, plenty of those out there. But your criticism of people who feel strongly about adopting was what I'm responding to. It's not about feeling…

I always recommend NYC ACC to people - they are so desperate for adopters, the process is much less arduous than working through rescues!

Spend a few days volunteering at a local kill shelter, bond with sweet lovable dogs that would make someone a wonderful pet, and then watch them get euthanized when no one comes to adopt them. Then you'll get why people feel so passionately about it.

Yes!! That was a pit bull puppy, and he reminded me so much of how my (now 2.5 years old) rescue pittie still plays to this day... they are the best!

That sounds like fun... although I always marvel at pregnant ladies at parties. Not that you HAVE to drink to have fun, but I want to ask them "are you having a good time? Is everyone sort of insufferable since you're sober? Just me? Ok..."

Oh yeah - this is spot on the married folks Valentine's Day thread. I also buy a new dress (this year I'm having my hair done), we go to eat somewhere more expensive than usual, and then go to a classical or jazz concert somewhere fancy where we drag down the median age significantly. And I LOVE IT. Also, it's one of…

This has got to be the most useful commenting section on Jezebel ever. Now not only do I have the perfect solution for what to do with the rest of my evening, but I also have an obvious first choice for my next weekend holiday...