My cat has issues with redirected aggression, too. It's scary, but we can go years without any kind of display of aggression. In 16 years, there have been three incidents - one major, like the one you had with your cat, and two less severe (basically kind of a bite, scratch, and run).

Exactly. An animal that was fine for years doesn't just attack without being provoked, unless it was really sick. Cats are well known for hiding it really well when they're sick or injured.

This needs to be the highlighted comment.

i hope the people who don't get the dog can go to their local shelter or rescue group and adopt another one (dog or cat!) that needs a home! remember, it doesn't take much $$ or huge amts of time to be a good owner :)

anyone want my opinion? I am Indian, and I don't care. Wear a bindi! Don't wear one! Jump into a fountain while wearing a sari and break out into song while random bystanders dance to perfect choreography!

Policing cultural appropriation on an interpersonal level like this ALWAYS requires policing somebody else's ethic identity—and that's just plain gross. "Are his eyes slanty enough to get away with that tattoo?" "Are her features negroid enough to warrant those corn rows?" "She doesn't look brown enough to wear that…

If you asked even the more religious Hindus in India (my grandmother, for example), they will have no objections to white people wearing bindis at Coachella. This is because in India, bindis (especially the kind that you buy in a store and stick on your forehead) have almost zero religious connotation. There are…

Let me be very clear with you. I am Indian, I lived in India, and UNLESS THAT BINDI IS RED AND ROUND IT IS NOT AN AFFRONT TO THE CULTURE OR PEOPLE. Deocrative Bindis are not specific to JUST India. They appear in many Asian countries as well.

I must say, I have zero reverence for religious symbols. To say it is thousands of years old does not lend it sacrosanct status. Even more so, there is much reason for some to purposefully debase Hinduism, much in the same way that critics of Christianity might invert the cross. Of course, the irony of the inverted…

This impulse to shame and attack westerners for crossing cultural lines (that non westerners cross each day by adopting western-style clothing or manners) isn't a sincere debate about protecting cultural symbols or championing the rights of the underdog—it's an emotional fixation on perceived historical injustices…

Madonna was raised Roman Catholic. She wasn't appropriating anything, she was making a comment on a culture and religion she was deeply familiar with and was an inherent part of her identity. In fact most musicians and entertainers who have "disrespected" Christian symbols were raised Christian (Marilyn Manson,…

Isha, as an Indian-American woman, I remember my mother insisting I wear a bindi "for decoration" with my lengha or salwaar kameez for some Hindu function, temple, party, or what have you. Both my parents are well educated, but even they didn't think much about the cultural significance of the bindi, nor would they…

I agree with this. I DEFINITELY don't understand when it's clothing or fabric patterns. I can certainly understand when it's something of religious significance. I'm Jewish, I'd feel a little weird if I saw someone wearing tefillan (leather straps that hold a prayer box in place - a little kinky if you ask me)... but…

The problem with that is, we can't change other people. We can only change how we treat them or how much we choose to engage with them. So when someone has a friend problem that amounts to "how can I change this person" what other advice is there?

This is going to sound really, really trite, and I'm sure you've heard it before, AND I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm going to say it anyway - it is SO MUCH EASIER to lose weight if you start by loving yourself. Unconditionally.

I wish she'd just said that she hates all the homos. Then, at least, someone would have something to bitch about.

For people who are considering quitting their jobs because the cost of daycare eats up almost their entire salaries: think deeper. Maybe staying home is the right choice for you because you would find it fulfilling. But if you are only staying home because of the daycare-to-salary ratio, consider long-term investments…

Team Old Daario! New Daario is very nondescript. Old Daario was cheesy but at least he looked different to every other guy in the show.

Oh, Jack Gleeson. My rational mind knows that I have never read an unkind word about you, and that you indeed look like pleasant young man.

AND YET A FREAKING HATE YOU, FACE OF JOFFREY BARATHEON.

I hope your millions comfort you in this time of personal crisis.