I don't believe any individual life is without worth just because more of the same species exist. Dogs are not a commodity product.

Thousands of dogs are a statistic, one beloved dog already in the news is a rallying point. When I interned at The Ohio State University I watched them spend a few college tuitions worth of money on a greyhound with two broken legs, MRSA and failing skin grafts. That guy hadn't even been in the news.

Given the enormous number of people trying to save the dog, I don't imagine funding would be that difficult. Vets and vet techs expose already handle zoonotic diseases, it's part of the job. The work has already been done on how to check for the ebola virus in animals (including dogs).

Except that they are minimally infectious if at all, and for a short period of time, right before they clear the virus. I'm pretty sure a perfect vector would have to stay infected.

Yeah, but dogs clear the virus. It isn't even a long period until the dog is healthy and non-contagious. The dog is being killed for something that does not cause the dog any discomfort and is only briefly and minimally dangerous to humans.

This study: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11… says that dogs with high levels of exposure to the disease (eating dead bodies) have a 1/4 chance of contracting the virus. Those that contracted the virus were asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic prior to clearing the virus (ie. no longer contagious).

I have drawn blood from a dog, as well as being involved in the restraint (which is the harder job, IMHO). Haven't had to do it in a biohazard suit, but there really isn't as many flying body fluids as you seem to expect. Pits aren't that hard to find a vein on, generally, no excess fat or fur around the jugular, no…

In North America, just about every vet hospital and all the vet universities have quarantine facilities. There are standard protocols for dealing with zoonotic diseases that are equally or more contagious — though exotic stuff usually ends up at a university.

Treats her like shit while she is dressed up all pretty and un-slutty, mind you. Because while first impressions might be important, your clothing choices won't keep you from being assaulted.

I've done the opposite — cutting out those stupid fake pockets to put in real ones. Not to bad a DIY as any messy stitching is hidden.

I tried that, it either falls out or ends up at my elbow. Maybe it there was, like, a little pocket there at the wrist . . .

Gradually narrow the radius in increments of feet or even inches until he's able to walk calmly and not go crazy on every person or animal he sees.

October is also Queer Romance Month, so I finished off 'Another Place in Time' and waiting impatiently for the release of Jordan Hawk's next Whyborne and Griffin book (Bloodlines). Since W&G also borrow from Lovecraft, they are quite appropriate for the Halloween-inspired readers this month.

Hollywood Upstairs Harvard Business School, when you want to build a cosmetics experience and not call it a pyramid scheme.

. . . Or an actual concern for children.

I figured 'Science with a Sparkle' would be astronomy. Or bioluminescent organisms, gemstones, light refracted through water, feathers, beetle carapaces . . . I can understand why 'Sparkle' is going to appeal to young girls, but why not try a little harder to get something interesting behind the title?

Or if the adult does happen to believe the bullied kid and if the bully gets any sort of punishment, the bully comes back at the bullied kid with an increased level of abuse.

It seems reasonable to me that someone, after a traumatic event, would try to rewrite it in their mind so that it was not caused by a lack of control but a mistake on their own part. "Maybe I led him on" or "maybe he didn't hear me say no" . . . "I'm not a victim, I just made a mistake". Denial, right?

I am a vet tech, registered in the state of Ohio. Cynology and felinology are just hobbies, predating both my career and my show cats. I don't like reading slander of a group of people who are working very hard for little reward to improve the health of a unique and beautiful breed. Especially not because of a single,…

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