You have no idea what you’re dealing with. | Shakespeare in the park?
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You have no idea what you’re dealing with. | Shakespeare in the park?
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This very proud looking cat was the friendliest, most lovable cat I have ever encountered. He would quietly walk up to you and sit down and purr and wait for you to pet him or scratch behind his ears. When he heard loud noises or got scared he would bolt and try to hide in very tiny spaces with most of his body hanging out but his head hidden. He was also morbidly obese at 33 pounds.
This cat’s owner fed him several cans of wet food, ad lib dry food, cat treats, and slices of banana every single day. When he wasn’t eating he would meow and cry and beg for more food, and he got it.
One day the owner noticed this cat was not eating as much as usual but figured it would soon pass and did nothing. More days go by and he has stopped eating completely and just lays in his small bed. He starts to lose weight and cries all day; more days go by. Finally they make a trip to the vet but due to financial limitations cannot afford the hospital care he needs and so he is put to sleep. A necropsy is done and the major finding is a waxy, yellow liver. This cat had hepatic lipidosis because he was not eating and so his body started calling on the fat reserves for energy and the liver couldn’t handle it. We will never know what caused him to stop eating in the first place but the lipidosis would likely have killed him.
Moral of the story? As I have stated in previous articles, no good can come of overfeeding your pets. This cat was entirely too fat and it made it difficult for him to groom himself, walk, and put a heavy toll on his joints and organs. Cats have another issue because when they don’t eat they pull fat from stores but their livers become overwhelmed and the fat ends up being stored in the liver. Basically the hepatocytes become filled with lipid and can no longer function like normal. It is of utmost importance that if your cat doesn’t eat for more than a day, you get it to the vet. Not only is it easy to prevent hepatic lipidosis, but it is a good idea to find out why your cat stopped eating in the first place.
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That awkward moment when you’re the other woman and everyone is rooting for you anyway…
The shapes seen in the image are about the size of a thumbnail. They are created by mixing ferrofluid with water color and putting it into a magnetic field. When put under a magnetic field iron particles in the ferrofluid solution start to rearrange, forming the black channels and separating the water colors from the ferrofluid. These are the results.
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Friendly Dolphins Help Brazilian Fishermen
We think of dolphins as playful — but they may also be more cunning than we ever realized. A subset of the dolphin population in Laguna, Brazil has started cooperating with human fishing expeditions. The dolphins will help people get better catches, in return for whatever the fisherman discard. They’ll drive schools of mullet towards the fisherman, and they even signal when and where to cast the nets.
Newly published research has looked at the dolphins who are helping out in this unique way. What the scientists discovered is that the sea mammals that cooperated with the humans were more social than the ones that didn’t, both within their own species, and with ours. The researchers believe this is to do with social learning practices, where these skills can be passed between the more connected dolphins.
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I fell in love with your sailor mouth, and your wounded eyes.
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