Focus on the Family seems to have the same moral stance as ISIL. Any chance we can get some sort of international commitment to bomb it too?

I figured it was a complex commentary on the British view of Scotland (as represented by Olivia, the Scottish Fold) and the US (as represented by Mr. Cleese's own Maine Coon). Essentially, the US makes things bigger and unwieldy while Scots produce things that look like they are the result of an accident, but both are…

She won't even sit next to the guy who says he's not fond of cats. She ends up nearly pushing Cleese off the couch.

Bottle raised pups traditionally enjoy odorous yellowish diarrhea for weeks before developing the proper gut bacteria. So, the tiniest yellow smears maybe.

Belle's Human posted in an above thread that it was an infection that took down the litter. Probably Mom-dog caught something that caused problems with the pups development or else caused an early labor. It's not 'nephews' but 'uncles' that were adopted out — Belle's canine grandmother had a litter around the same…

That's awful. I know a lot of small animal vets out there aren't used to handling pregnancy issues but dead pups is a pretty clear sign to intervene.

In cat breeding having multiple litters at the same it is more common — since cats will communally raise kittens and it gives new moms an experienced helper. I think with dogs it's usually done to assure that litter sizes are more even. Toy dogs tend to have small litters (1 or 2 pups), there's a big difference for a…

So, they've failed to win over 'brown people', women, and (soon) LGBTQ. Do you think they'll loop back, or try to come up with a reason why poor people should vote for them?

It was unnerving to me when I moved from Canada to the US and suddenly we had tornado drills. I can't imagine these days doing fire drills and tornado drills and crazed gunmen drills . . .

It's always amazing to me when normally totally goofball dogs remember that they can be protective too. My ex-racer greyhound is afraid of toddlers, nervous about children and Very Concerned about plastic bags moving in the wind — all these things require running away very fast. But a creepy guy or menacing dog and…

I have a dude, but he takes sleep aids and probably wouldn't wake up in case of creepy break-in. I do, however, have four cats, two dogs and a Mississippi Mud turtle. The cats are pretty clear on waking up the household for anything interesting (by running at high speed) and the dogs are pretty good at howling and…

Nice, I think I'll embroider that on a pillow.

According to this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… 300,000 people have signed a petition to save the dog, and the international animal group Igualdad Animal is behind saving him.

One instance of neurofibromatosis gave us nearly all the information known about that disease. Why is the potential disease path of one dog so much harder to grasp? Case studies are an important part of all medical fields.

That's true, both rabies and kennel cough are significantly more contagious than ebola. And then, of course, there is parvovirus which blows ebola out of the water in terms of ease of contagion.

"But I imagine most quarantine facilities are not adequately designed for a disease as risky as Ebola."

First off, tranquilizer is not the same as anesthesia. Sedation is not the same as either tranquilizer or anesthesia. There is no reason for an ebola dog to go under anesthesia — he doesn't need surgery. You don't need an animal to be insensible to do basic care.

The current ebola case in the US is being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital — they do everything from cardiac care to pediatrics. Babies are being born in the same hospital where they are treating the ebola case. Don't know how much more 'regular hospital' you'd want.

I think people don't realize that vet hospitals do all the same things as human hospitals except on a tighter budget and for more species.

Not everyone who works with animals is vaccinated against it. The vaccine is crazy expensive in the US (I'd like to believe it's more accessible in more civilized countries, but I don't know).