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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on October 14, 2008, 05:46:14 am
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I like pets. in fact i like pets quite a lot! that is why i have two awesome ferrets in flagrant violation of campus housing policies.
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a side effect of the housing policies is that the RAs/RDs do a sweep of all the dorms during breaks, like the Fall one going on all this week. i'm out of town to attend my girlfriend's sister's wedding, and i had to dismantle their main cage so i could put them in the travel cage to take with me since the RDs would almost definitely find the ferrets if i left them with one of my roommates.
while i was putting them in the travel cage - which they don't really like! - one of them tried to stick his head out of the door, it was dark in the room since i was doing it at 6 in the morning, and i shut the door on poor anya's hand and now she has a broken finger. now she has a horrible limp and sometimes she cries while in her hammock and jesus i am a terrible pet owner. also today i shut a door on her head but that's an unrelated issue.
there was no time to take her to a vet until tomorrow morning when we can drop her off at the vet hospital near my girlfriend's house to get it looked at. is it typical that the place charges a 100 dollar non-refundable deposit for emergency dropoffs? i have to pay it, yeah, but it seems excessive and the only experience i have with pet health problems is when my pacu rotted alive in its tank when i was 14 because i didn't understand carbon buildup in water necessitating switching out a gallon a day and the one time our springer spaniel got drunk. i know nothing about dealing with vets and i am nervous. am i going to drop it off tomorrow morning and then get a call like WELL... WE PUT THE HAND IN THE CAST, THATLL BE SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS?? are they going to cut off my ferret's finger because bones that small are too hard to fix? help me i am a 19 year old manchild who knows nothing about the world.
i am also curious about whether anyone else here has been in similar situations!! tell us about your PET EMERGENCIES and how you dealt with them.
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One time my brother accidentally hit our dog with a golf club during his back swing.
so I beat my brother's ass!
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broken finger is fatal for ferrets(i would know i dissected DOZENS of them while studying at university)
the only thing you can do is kill your ferret with a hammer immediately so it doesn't continue suffering any more
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My eight year old beagle is beginning to show signs of arthritis; so I've ordered him some arthogen... Not a very good story; I admit; but there's a little more behind this.
You see, my parents are idiots. Despite me constant pleaing to them "Stop giving him excessive amounts of dog treats" "Please stop feeding him two hot dogs from lunch and two hot dogs for dinner, look; I'll pay for this dog food so just stop" and my favorite "Stop cleaning his eyes with a paper towel". Of course with all this nonsense going on, I'm the one who has to flip the vet bill for when the dog gets sick or hurt.
Despite my beagle's great energy, he's becoming quite overweight, attempts to get the dog on a proper diet have all led to failure; mainly because of my parents inability to follow veterinary advice, combined with my pleas. Dog's typically don't take kindly to sudden changes in their diet; so my dog wouldn't eat the new, high quality dog food. Normally; an owner would have to just keep giving it to the dog until the animal gives in and eats it. INSTEAD what would happen is I feed the dog, walk out; and find out that my father is giving the beagle handfuls of CAT TREATS for some reason... Oh yeah, did I mention this dog used to eat Hot Dogs covered in cat treats? Oh, well he used to! Now he only eats hot dogs covered in dog treats.
Due to his current weight, I've since made another plea. Since the dog is getting regular vitamin supplements now; I said to my father "We need to put the dog on a diet, maybe just one hot dog for lunch / dinner" to which he replied "OKaY ONE ANDA HAF HOT DOGS" to I which I replied "...".
Oh yes; it will be an interesting day when this dog passes on. Oh hoh - I wonder how badly I'll fly off the handle when I'm unable to quell this rage that festers inside me as I see my dog die two years early for no good reason.
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broken finger is fatal for ferrets(i would know i dissected DOZENS of them while studying at university)
the only thing you can do is kill your ferret with a hammer immediately so it doesn't continue suffering any more
it's at like a 90 degree rotated angle, can i just use the hammer to hit it back into place??
One time my brother accidentally hit our dog with a golf club during his back swing.
so I beat my brother's ass!
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i can't even tell when your horrible posts are a shitty attempt at being ironic / trying to lash back at the UNFAIR WAY GW HAS LABELED ME ON THE INTERNET or whether you think you're being genuinely amusing anymore, stop posting.
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You could try getting something straight and fairly solid and making a splint by putting it under the ferret's finger and taping it. thats allowing that the ferret won't chew the splint off or something. That should work until you can get it to a vet.
Are you sure its broken? It might just be badly sprained. But you could either pay the 100$ and leave the ferret there or put a splint on and make an appointment which would probably be alot cheaper.
I don't know how much vets charge for broken appendages but I can't imagine it would be more then a couple hundred at most. I doubt they would cut the finger off either...
EDIT: Yeah, if its at a 90 degree angle you need to straighten it and try to splint it so it doesn't hurt itself further
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I killed my brother's pet rabbit on accident when I picked it up my dog started barking at it and it started trying to jump around, I held it tighter so it wouldn't fall and hurt itself but it just DIED!
I don't know if it was a heart attack or shock but the damn thing just DIED in my arms for no apparent reason.
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harry manback: why does everything i touch...turn to ash......?
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wasn't the first time......won't be the last.
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I had a cat once I dropped a sofa on it.
It was a write-off so I stood on its head
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I had a cat when I was six that had a gaping hole in its side from some infected snake bite or something and my mom had it put down but when I was little yes I saw my cat walking around the house with a 6-inch hole in its side, it was fucking huge.
Also my neighbors poisoned my mean ass goat because he ate their flower bed but we couldn't do anything about it because we didn't have proof and it looked like rattlesnake poisoning symptoms even though it didn't have any bites on it.
I also have a badass cat thats like 13 years old and beat both of my parent's full grown lion chow's asses several times but she leaves at months at a time to go whoring and eat the neighbors food.
Also the mean ass goat's mom got pregnant by the mean ass goat and had like 5 offspring all of which were miscarriages except for one that got crushed by a horse that slept on it a few weeks after it was born.
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I had a cat once I dropped a sofa on it.
It was a write-off so I stood on its head
WARNING WARNING: this is NOT original. Mark stole this line from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Do NOT trust GamingW member "Mark."
Busted mother fucker. :fogetcool:
Also I had an emergency a couple of weeks ago. I was looking after the house while my parents were in Vietnam, and my mother's dog got hit by a car. She ended up totally fine, except for some grazes, but it still meant a trip to an 24hr animal clinic with my uncle. And that was about $200. She got checked up, injected with some stuff, and prescribed some medicine for 5 days. But everything is fine at least, and you wouldn't really know anything happened!
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let the pound catch your ferret and they'll probably fix it up for free and you can get it a few days later and only pay the release fee
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let the pound catch your ferret and they'll probably fix it up for free and you can get it a few days later and only pay the release fee
so my girlfriend went to pick it up and guess what the bill was.
the bill was four hundred bucks.
I SPENT 400 BUCKS ON FERRET FINGER SURGERY.
jesus christ i need a drink or six
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jesus christ i need a drink or six
if you can afford it
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a) start selling weed on campus
b) sell all your textbooks, scan the ones that aren't available online so you still have a copy
that $400 will be back in no time
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selling weed is harder then you think.
First off you've got to find a buyer who can get you a steady supply but is still good enough to not get caught
secondly you need to be strict with yourself, if you want a profit you can't be smokin the merchandise
lastly you gotta do the match for every bit you sell and set a reasonable price so that you're MAKING MONEY and yet your weed is still at a desirable price
but if you can obtain a good bit of it from a cheap bulk seller and sell it to other college students discreetly you could probably make some mean dough
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the hardest part about selling weed at my school is not selling so much and making so much money that you get armed thugs bashing down your dorm room door and robbing you at gunpoint.
i'm dead serious
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Thats why you only do it to fairly close friends and tell them to keep a lid on it or you won't sell them shit
if the thugs don't know you're selling the weed they won't thug you up
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Let me tell yah, you should've just kept it on pain killers so it wouldn't suffer or just have it euphanized. Also animal shelters in Canada euphanize ferrets right there, unless it's endangered or near extinct they ain't gonna bother. You wasted your money, this is coming from someone who's mother works at an animal clinic.
For the dog with arthritis well if he's really old let em' eat what he wants and just put him on some pain releavers for the arthritis and some meds for any infections he might have (but lose the hot dogs give em' chewies). You could have his nerves removed from the areas the arthritis is so he can't feel anything (IF it's located in the joints).
RANDOM TIDBIT: Animals have a low survival rate for most surgeries, and an even lower success rate instead just extending their life by only a little bit.
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My eight year old beagle is beginning to show signs of arthritis; so I've ordered him some arthogen... Not a very good story; I admit; but there's a little more behind this.
You see, my parents are idiots. Despite me constant pleaing to them "Stop giving him excessive amounts of dog treats" "Please stop feeding him two hot dogs from lunch and two hot dogs for dinner, look; I'll pay for this dog food so just stop" and my favorite "Stop cleaning his eyes with a paper towel". Of course with all this nonsense going on, I'm the one who has to flip the vet bill for when the dog gets sick or hurt.
Despite my beagle's great energy, he's becoming quite overweight, attempts to get the dog on a proper diet have all led to failure; mainly because of my parents inability to follow veterinary advice, combined with my pleas. Dog's typically don't take kindly to sudden changes in their diet; so my dog wouldn't eat the new, high quality dog food. Normally; an owner would have to just keep giving it to the dog until the animal gives in and eats it. INSTEAD what would happen is I feed the dog, walk out; and find out that my father is giving the beagle handfuls of CAT TREATS for some reason... Oh yeah, did I mention this dog used to eat Hot Dogs covered in cat treats? Oh, well he used to! Now he only eats hot dogs covered in dog treats.
Due to his current weight, I've since made another plea. Since the dog is getting regular vitamin supplements now; I said to my father "We need to put the dog on a diet, maybe just one hot dog for lunch / dinner" to which he replied "OKaY ONE ANDA HAF HOT DOGS" to I which I replied "...".
Oh yes; it will be an interesting day when this dog passes on. Oh hoh - I wonder how badly I'll fly off the handle when I'm unable to quell this rage that festers inside me as I see my dog die two years early for no good reason.
I can sympathize with this. My mom and her boyfriend tend to do really stupid things whenever the dogs start acting up, like reinforcing bad behavior with treats so that they can get the dogs to be quiet instead of ignoring them or just putting them inside whenever they decide to eat outside. It's really stupid, because now whenever they are around the dogs they start this incessant barking routine that annoys the living fuck out of me--and they don't really stop until they get food or whatever (usually in the form of table scraps).
Pretty dumb because I know my mom's boyfriend used to give his dog entire pizzas and BEER (just for LAUGHS, I guess!) and not surprisingly that dog died of some pretty nasty stomach cancer. Dogs aren't supposed to be eating shit with tons of unknown or processed ingredients--this is common sense and it seems like so many people are incapable of understanding it.
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Pretty dumb because I know my mom's boyfriend used to give his dog entire pizzas and BEER (just for LAUGHS, I guess!) and not surprisingly that dog died of some pretty nasty stomach cancer. Dogs aren't supposed to be eating shit with tons of unknown or processed ingredients--this is common sense and it seems like so many people are incapable of understanding it.
I explained this to my parents numerous times, I even asked a veterinarian to explain it to them; since my words to them have about as much worth as a common house hold sponge... But it's no use. I tell him dogs can't eat this stuff, my father replies "BUT ISH LOW FAT". Should I try again, I'm accused of "lecturing" them.
I just feel so terrible for the dog, that has to be in pain because I'm powerless to do anything to stop them. Every time he limps out of bed to grab his toy and drop it on my foot; I can see that the end is coming... This year, next year? The year after? Tomorrow? Even though after a moment of being up he walks around normally (with a healthy stroll, no less) I still feel bad.
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Once when I was pretty young, I was petting one of our cats with my bare foot while at the computer. After I was done goofing around for a few hours I went to pick him up and he had hung himself on the wires. He had actually scurried in there when I had started playing so he died at my feet and I probably could have saved him if I paid a little more attention. I felt pretty awful about it for awhile.
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My friends were dropping me off from a reading at 4 in the morning and it was raining, and we almost hit some rabbits. Turns out they weren't rabbits, they were kittens. No mom in sight, no other kittens. Cold, hungry, meowing little 3 week old kittens. So we warmed them up and I took them home, and fed them from a syringe, then a bottle, bathed them (with no-water kitten shampoo!), made them a little bed, trained them to use a litterbox. They think I'm their mom now O.o;
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THOSE SOME CUTE MOTHERFUCKERS
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oh my goodness i love kittens
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I had a cat when I was six that had a gaping hole in its side from some infected snake bite or something and my mom had it put down but when I was little yes I saw my cat walking around the house with a 6-inch hole in its side, it was fucking huge.
Also my neighbors poisoned my mean ass goat because he ate their flower bed but we couldn't do anything about it because we didn't have proof and it looked like rattlesnake poisoning symptoms even though it didn't have any bites on it.
I also have a badass cat thats like 13 years old and beat both of my parent's full grown lion chow's asses several times but she leaves at months at a time to go whoring and eat the neighbors food.
Also the mean ass goat's mom got pregnant by the mean ass goat and had like 5 offspring all of which were miscarriages except for one that got crushed by a horse that slept on it a few weeks after it was born.
That is fucking hilarious
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Dulcinea: Fuck I love kittens. That's awesome.
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HOLKY FUCK THERES CATS UNDER A LATOP CATS ON A CARPET OH MY FUCK
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Congradulations you've just taken in some kittens. I reccomend you let em' grow a few more months before giving them to someone else. They'll get over never seeing you again after a bit if you do, or you can just keep em'. If you do keep them don't make them out-door cats if you don't want to constantly check for infections, sickness, ear mites, ticks, lice, and fleas everytime they come back. Then theres the chance someone in your neighborhood leaves poison out for strays and out door cats, so beware.
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holy shit i want one.
but i am allergic :(