14 years of living with multiple cats, including incidents of medicating, bathing, and intensive grooming prior to cat shows: I've been bitten once by my own cats. I was trying to administer vile, bubblegum flavored antibiotic to my first cat and he bit hard enough to break the skin. Luckily, his mouth was full of…

So your boyfriend is either training your kitten to bite in order to get cuddle time or is not realizing that the kitten is stressed by handling and is biting in order to get away. Either problem is going to get worse with enforced cuddling.

Get her to a vet. She probably needs a through cleaning and that can only be done under anesthesia. Brushing and special foods can reduce the buildup of tarter, but once it's established the only thing that really works is a full cleaning.

Westminster Dog Show's agility competition during this, the first year mixed breed dogs are allowed to enter

The fact that foxes and bears were never domesticated furthers my theory that it was the dogs and cats who domesticated us rather than the other way around. I mean, if humans are these domestication wizards, why are there no domestic whales? That's the first thing I'd think of.

Sure kids could ride the dog, people let their kids ride dogs all the time. Then when the dog has back problems and/or bites child for squashing him then everyone is so confused.

Freddy's big enough to fetch a couch if he wants one. (Great Danes rearranging furniture is one of their more notorious behavioral quirks)

I wanted a Dane too, though potentially losing a dog at six years would be painful. Especially since I prefer adults to puppies. Sigh. Some big dogs have reasonable life spans though (and some smaller dogs don't) — newfies & leonburgers are about 10 years, pyrenees top out about 12. I have greyhounds (the compromise…

Yes! You know what makes for better and more frequent sex: time to have sex.

I was waiting for the follow-up news that the judges had been arrested for promoting the LGBT lifestyle . . .

This is the FIRST YEAR Westminster has held an agility competition alongside their famed conformation event. AKC policy allows registered mixes to compete alongside purebreds (Yes, you can get registration for your mutt at the AKC). Westminster followed AKC rules in it's agility competition just like it does in it's…

I'm pretty sure plus-sized and obese are not the same thing. A Rubenesque princess, shaped like, let's say, an old fashioned pin-up model. That's not unhealthy. Or go the other way and have a princess with a boy's figure, no boobs or hips — like so many teens at the age range they're attached to.

My anatomy prof had a 20 minute rant on the poor design of the clavicle. I think she found it a personal affront.

Also used for really screwing up anatomy students.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. — A. Lincoln

It's not that animals are more important than people, or people more important than animals. It's that a person chose to cause unneeded suffering to someone they had power over. It's the choice to be cruel that's…

Piers Morgan made a series of statements that caused offense, possibly inadvertently. Instead of apologizing and attempting to remedy his ignorance, he proceeded to deny that the offense was real. Choosing ignorance is worthy of vitriol, regardless of context.

I appreciate the kudos but the rest of the story is that after eight years in the field I couldn't take it anymore and jumped ship to a different career. I'll never make that kind of money again but I'm also a much happier person now that I don't need to be a bitch everyday.

IDK, if this guy does have a crippling anxiety issue I hope he gets the appropriate medical help. But it doesn't sound like he had a problem with any of his other classes . . .

I spent the majority of my four years in college, and the following eight years as a programmer in rooms populated entirely by the opposite sex. (My only request in college was to tone down the number of porn related similes. My special snowflake moment.)

tried to justify her actions, by calling Gregory's hair a suicide risk.