Australia is NOT the only island without rabies! Australia gives very few countries considered “rabies free” (New Zealand among them) benefit of coming in without quarantine as long as they meet certain documentary requirements. New Zealand, however, as a much more lenient quarantine process, half the time with plenty…

New Zealand’s also a rabies free country. Their quarantine is half that of Australia and they provide a great deal of options with regard to location of quarantine, and visitation/contact. Apparently, that’s working for them. Not sure why Australia has to warehouse pets for 30 days (despite having all expected…

Of course! I’d never put a dog through that just for a vacation! That’s ridiculous. The problem comes if you’re immigrating or going over for a job offer. Unlike other rabies-free countries, there’s no other way to shorten or eliminate the quarantine process. Your pet will be caged for 30 days at a central quarantine…

I wouldn’t smuggle them either. Nor would I take my dogs to Australia for a vacation! As I said I’m not excusing their behavior. But other islands — including England, Japan and Hawaii and even New Zealand — have processes in place so that if you plan far enough in advance, follow the process and provide the paperwork…

Yes...but there IS a process to complete to avoid a quarantine. Japan as a similar quarantine procedure. It’s perfectly reasonable. For Australia there is not a process whereby you can skip or minimize the quarantine period. Your pet will be automatically be quarantined for at least 30 days, with no contact or calls,…

Our son lives in Australia and will likely immigrate permanently, so my husband and I might consider, at some point, moving there too. But our dogs are family and we take our commitment to them seriously, so we wouldn’t even consider putting them through that type of confinement. Especially since our youngest dog…

Not condoning what Heard did, but Australia’s pet quarantine laws are horrible. Dogs are quarantined for 30 days in a central facility. You cannot call. You cannot visit. (This is apparently a rather recent change where pets were quarantined at various smaller facilities and owners could at least visit and call.)…

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Seriously? I’d expect my kids to get into an elite school based upon their grades and achievements — ESPECIALLY if they had a good family name, legacy and money as fundamental benefits.

Our male dog will lick at our female dog’s vaginal area and then do a sniffy-huff thing like he’s a wine taster. We call that “cooter huffing.”

I just use the Cooter line from Walmart. I think their liner in RimJob is almost an exact dupe for Mars Van Vooter’s Liquid Canvass.

Cranberries are for Yankees. (Except at Thanksgiving when jiggled out of a can onto a plate and sliced into rounds that no one eats.)

Well this was in the South, so the trend continued well into the 2000's. Thankfully it appears to have died...for now...

Until very recently, my mother would make “pink salad” at Thanksgiving. It was cottage cheese, dream whip (artificially sweetened cool whip type powder), strawberry jello powder and pineapple chunks. She’d make a HUGE bowl of that shit and nobody ever ate it.

So soft blood-streaked feces? Sounds about right. Now we need a cute-yet-serious graphic to depict the threat level to humanity.

Crowning Asshole. That’s our threat level now. What color would that be?

You should definitely work on setting different expectations. My daughter and her husband live within 12 hours of us, but we realize they have his family and their own lives and that Thanksgiving/Christmas are just...dates. I would only want them to visit if they actually want to visit! If they wanted to go camping…

My married daughter is 27. We take a trip together once a year (in March we went to London/Paris for 10 days) and I visit her another time during the year or she and her husband visit at some point during the holidays. I actually don’t give a shit about birthdays so if she remembers mine that’s great. If not, I get…