*hugs* (since the “recommend” star doesn’t seem to be working)

It’s strange to say, but when it’s time, you will likely know, and she may tell you herself.

I would say, take your cues from her; is she still eating, still enjoying sniffing when she goes out, even for a short walk, still enjoying sleeping in the sun? In other words, is she still getting some enjoyment out of life.

I’m so sorry. It hurts so much when they go, and it’s exhausting to make the decision as to when is the right time to let them go. 

I’m having a synchronicity; I thought that I recognized the artist of the lede illustration, and checked into the Wellcome library, and yes, the artist is Heather Spears, a talented ex pat Canadian artist living in Denmark, whose work I’ve been researching fairly intensively for the last month. She is a talented…

I’m so sorry; having to deal with a number of pet passings in succession can knock the stuffing out of you (I lost 3 in the span of 6 weeks, a few years ago).

I’m so sorry. The last thing we can do for them is a gentle passing, and you did that for her.

Yeah, if you sign up through google/gmail it’s best to create a new persona, and use that. I have a gmail account under my real name, and that’s my business and personal gmail, and a gmail under the OWYAC persona, just for online activities.

It used to be called Noblesse Oblige.

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Whatever works!

I love irises. I don’t have enough sun in my current yard for them though.

Get an NSAID, like motrin for the potential headache and mild flu symptoms.

I felt the pharmacist touch my arm; it was nothing. I did get mild flu symptoms 24 hours later; mostly a headache and my arm was very sore. Between the headache and the arm, I didn’t get much sleep that night, but some NSAIDs helped the headache in particular, and everything but the sore arm were find 48 hours after…

Corgi butt!

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You’re welcome! G/O Media shuttered the commenter blogs last fall, and a number of them had contingency plans in place, so we upped-stakes and moved the communities elsewhere. A lot of us still comment here, like PhoebeCaulfield and ysubassoon, so there’s a lot of overlap. I see that the SNS comments are down, and…

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Hey there! I’m burying this in an old comment response in an effort to not attract trolls.

Hey there! I’m burying this in an old comment response in an effort to not attract trolls.