Science diet is garbage and they flex their money to brainwash your vet into profiting off their terrible food. They buy their way into vet school curriculum and are literally willing to sacrifice your pets health for profit. Fuck ‘em.

Oh man. My tortie had a stroke a few years back, affecting her back end. She’s regained the ability to walk and run and jump mostly, but she does it on gimpy back legs. She walks on her hocks, so her knobby back knees make contact with the ground. So when she runs, she really hops kinda like a bunny. She clomps around, and her tail doesn’t move either. So she’s had a rough go of it. But the back feet curls have increased tenfold when she’s lying down. It’s pretty adorable.

Drive-by grooming

I’ll give you some anecdotal evidence.

I make okay money. Not great, but I’m not starving. Lower middle class, probably. But I’m a single man, so if I had a family I’d be lower class no question. (This all just to give you an idea of my income without sharing my personal data online, we’re all working class)

I tried getting insurance this year, and the cheapest plan I could find was $700/mo. That means I pay an insurance company $700 every month, whether I go to the doctor or not. Now, if I were going for a general checkup, I’d pay a “copay,” so a base cost for the office visit. Probably $40-$50.

Then, depending on what I get done, tests, lab work, medicine, I’d still probably pay at least a portion of that, the medicine is likely to be discounted.

But then there’s this thing called a “deductible.” That means I have to spend the amount of the deductible in the year out of my own pocket before the insurance company would be paying for anything major. My deductible for this $700/mo plan was something like $7,000. Something like that, $5-$7k. That’s my cost before the insurance company is obligated to pay for anything. Small stuff they’ll probably cover (depending on the doctor I went to…) but before I spend that $7k of my own money in this calendar year, they’re not gonna pay for much of anything, if really anything at all.

So before we get into the absurdity of how much medicinal care costs here, there’s all that insanely stupid system to pay off and figure out.

I’ve never, ever heard of a breakaway dog collar. Cats are the ones jumping off stuff, squeezing through small spaces, climbing and having a much higher risk of strangulation via a caught collar. Dogs don’t typically do that, so their risk is very, very low.

My friend really likes meundies. Extreme restraints and square space are both pretty good too.

With her hair tastefully washed, blow dried, and curled.

The real question is what did they do with that super short dressing gown? Did they give her visible underwear? Because she has her legs up. Show us the other angle, you cowards. Make your intentions as clear as can be!

lol the “no u r” defense. A+

Oh my god the irony of this comment is almost too much.

I started out this entire goddamn odyssey of a conversation doing nothing more than suggesting you change your tact. Telling you i support what you’re doing but think you’re going about it all wrong.

You got snarky—even though you entirely misunderstood what I said. And continued misunderstanding what I was saying. Calling you out on doing your cause no favors and me getting annoyed that I couldn’t get my point across has nothing to do with….anything that you’re now trying to make me think this conversation has ever been about lol

lol. I ended up getting frustrated with you because it took me explaining a really simple thing like five different ways before you understood what I was saying. I feel like that wouldn’t hint at you being a really great judge of much, especially communicating about something you claim to care about with people on the internet. So…

Ironic. “Don’t be a dick” is an unlikeable position.

That makes sense.

No.

No. Like, what is your damage?

For real. How are you not understanding what I’m saying?

I’m saying you’re not doing veganism any favors by being a dick. Holy shit, I literally have run out of ways to put what I’m saying. I’d like to see the idea stop getting shit on by people online. And people like you, being a dick, make that unlikely. Veganism is already facing an uphill battle in the likeability/image department, thanks to organizations like PETA and their annoying, obnoxious antics. You, being a dick about veganism makes that hill even steeper. Are you…grasping this yet?

No. In order to help…yknow…the earth? The animals? Why is this so much about other people for you?

Why are you vegan? For yourself? For clout? As I mentioned…like, three or four times…my whole idea is to help promote the good idea. Not you, not others. And you’re standing in the way of a good thing because you can’t get the fuck over yourself.

That’s…not what I’m saying. At all. Are you…reading what I’m writing? I literally can’t make it any clearer.

You, (as in you, the person I’m talking to) are being a dick (a douchebag, a pissant, an annoying prick). And you being a dick (douchebag, pissant, et. al) makes trying to stop others (other people on the internet; people who are not you; meat eaters) from hating all vegans (other people; not yous who also happen to subscribe to and live the vegan lifestyle).

You being a dick makes vegans look like assholes. And looking like assholes makes people hate vegans even more. Stop it.

Are you-

Um. I don’t know what’s even happening here. How do you not get what I’m saying.

Just fyi, when I’m trying to stem the flow of vegan hate I see online, I find way, way, way more success in not being an obnoxious asshole.

Or put another way: “it’s best when trying to make sure not everyone hates a good cause, to not be a total dick.” (Read: you’re being a total dick and not helping your cause.)

It’s a stupid trend, bashing and shitting all over vegans and vegetarians saying the habit is a good thing.

“I understand it’s a stupid trend that people on the internet hate vegans and anyone speaking positively about veganism/vegetarianism.”

Don’t make it harder for everyone else to get on board with this kind of shit.

“You’re making sticking up for veganism/vegans much harder by, as mentioned before, being a dick.”

Get it now?

…yes. Did you read what I said? Because it should be clear I mean you.

Just fyi, when I’m trying to stem the flow of vegan hate I see online, I find way, way, way more success in not being an obnoxious asshole. It’s a stupid trend, bashing and shitting all over vegans and vegetarians saying the habit is a good thing. Don’t make it harder for everyone else to get on board with this kind of shit.

I’m all for people being vegan and vegetarian. I just wanted to follow up on this with a question: what about genetically engineered fruit/veg? Or greenhouses? Really, what’s the difference between a lab and a greenhouse when it comes to making food? I just don’t see the lab thing making any sense. We eat a ton of stuff grown in what is essentially food labs. Kitchens are food labs, especially the bigger ones. Don’t eat the lab grown meat, all fine with me. I just think the distinction is strange.

So…your dilemma is that you’re miserable and wish you weren’t. But you refuse to change.

So you’re determined to stay miserable. If that’s the case, fine. Do you, but don’t expect other people to have sympathy for you if you’re just an unrelenting asshole and trying to pawn off the responsibility for your misery on others.

Read some Camus. But hE’s DeAD sO fUCk hIm right?

Get over yourself. Change if you don’t want to be miserable. But if you’re determined not to, stop fucking asking everyone to validate your feelings.