I live in the actual middle east. Fries on shawarma are a thing. (I don't live in Palestine, but that shawarma looks like what I get delivered.)

How will officials even be involved if she consented? It only becomes a matter for official involvement if non-consent is alleged.

There is a difference between pressuring someone to do something they do not want to do and having one person want it more than the other.

Ewww. Rather smoke sweaty gym socks.

FUCK YEAH I'M CLASSY AS SHIT YEAH!!!

No you fucking can't - or not all of us

My cat is currently in a vet hospital for treatment; I would hit the fucking roof if I found out they were keeping an animal that might have ebola in the same facility. It's not just about the risk to the vets and technicians from this highly dangerous and communicable disease, there's the risk to the other animals…

I sympathize with the owners, but I also feel like spending $100,000* to fight ebola in Africa for humans (who also have families) should be a higher priority than spending $100,000 to save one dog in Spain. Think about it. A dog in Spain getting better medical care than a child in Sierra Leone. And again, there is…

assuming the dog is in their house/apartment, tranquilizing it via dart would still require them to enter the house, and since darts take several minutes to take effect…yeah. But they're not going to do that. Obviously the sick owner was infected even though she was presumably following all the procedures and wearing…

I think the risk of euthanizing a healthy dog is less important than the risk of exposing vet workers and other animals (and as a result, their owners) to a high-mortality disease with no cure.

Rabies is waaaay less contagious than ebola. It's only transmitted through bites, scratches, and organ donation. Ebola is a Level 4 pathogen. Rabies is a Level 3. They have to assume the worst case scenario for this dog, and that includes that he might be difficult to handle, especially by people wearing what look…

Rabies is a treatable disease, if caught early enough, and everyone who works with animals is vaccinated against it. That is not remotely comparable to Ebola.

But I imagine most quarantine facilities are not adequately designed for a disease as risky as Ebola. Even labs that are- like the CDC- are unlikely to have a quarantine area that would keep this dog separate from their experimental animals, since that isn't what they're meant to do. I don't see what useful info they…

I'm sorry, you said you weren't a vet tech, right? So please, in your infinite and qualified knowledge of animal care and veterinary medicine, explain to me exactly what the risks are of repeatedly sedating an animal that may be sick and may be highly contagious. Please tell me how dogs that are waking up from…

Ok, let's look at the Level 4 unit at Emory where the first two infected americans were treated - a zillion levels of security, toilets that flush into a tank where all the waste is autoclaved, purpose-built for housing patients with infectious and dangerous diseases. Are they purpose-built to house animals? NO. Are…

Have you ever drawn blood from a dog?

I'm going to give officials the benefit of the doubt on this one. I love my pets, but if an infected person was hanging out with them, and studies suggested that my pet could carry it around while being asymptomatic (I'm guessing you'd have to do different tests for other animals too?), I would bawl my eyes out and…

My non scientist guess would be wishful thinking, a random dog would have too many variables that could interfere with results.

Sugar alcohols give me insane diarrhea and cramping, even in tiny quantities. I can't do that shit.

Stevia is awful. My BF is trying this dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free baking shit now, and it uses stevia and xylitol. Xylitol isn't terrible, but that shit is a sugar-alcohol and it makes my lips numb, like I accidentally put BenGay on my lips. Does fake sugar help people lose weight because it tricks your brain…