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vetmedhead said:
Cats DO like thread! :heckyeah:

But yeah, I thought it was cute that he drooled too, just... also kind of gross. The first time we cam back from a trip after we got him he drooled so much he left this huge puddle on the floor. He was a needy little cuddle bug.
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Haha yeah, drool is a bit gross.

Aww, the missed you drool is the best. My favorite is when I've been gone for a few days and before I've even picked up my kitty I can see the drool dripping out her mouth <3
 
Rwwilliams said:
I love when people do this, especially because the ADA expressly states that no paperwork is required and that no one is even allowed to ask what your disability is that necessitates a service animal. All they're allowed to ask is "Is this a service animal?" and "What service does it perform?" Yet, people go and spend $50-100 on this "paperwork" that they never needed.
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I do suspect a lot of these people are actually getting certification for their animals as emotional support animals rather than as service animals since service animals have to be trained to do something, whereas the presence of the emotional support animal is considered the "service" that it provides. The Fair Housing Act allows landlords to ask for documentation of a disability and documentation of the need for an emotional support/service animal, though the person is not required to disclose what their disability is (a note that basically says "I am a doctor and this person has a disability that this animals helps in some way" would work). For that reason many people do need to get documentation that their animals is providing some form of assistance so they do need paperwork.

I also know that at least in the dorms I worked at on my college campus you were required to have paperwork from a doctor stating that you needed the animal (not why, just that you did) in order to be approved to have an animal in the buildings. If the person from this ad got her dog when she lived on campus she may have needed to have paperwork and she just happens to still have it/use it for the apartments she lives in now.

https://www.animallaw.info/article/faqs-emotional-support-animals
 
WildZoo said:
No one likes Thread, silly. It hurts!
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Especially when kitties eat it and get to have surgery to remove the foreign bodies... :scared:

And wait, I think this means that dragons weren't the only protection against Thread. I bet kitties would have played with it and it wouldn't have even been a threat.

WildZoo said:
Why have I literally never thought to give them their food at night instead of in the morning until this very moment...
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Meanwhile, I'm over here as the person who splits the cat food up into portions and feeds the kitties three times a day...
 
vetmedhead said:
Meanwhile, I'm over here as the person who splits the cat food up into portions and feeds the kitties three times a day...
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I've done that. I was doing it for a while over the summer. I got lazy when I got here and might go back to doing it. One meal in the morning, one when I get home from whatever (work or school), one right before bed.

At one point I was doing breakfast, lunch, and dinner for them but getting home over my lunch break got a little dicey.
 
I don't like when they eat too much of each other's food because I can't tell how much they're each eating. They clearly did that overnight because one bowl is empty and the other is still half full. More reason to go back to the meals.

Oh, and Cindy still woke me up anyway. Right at 5:30. Why.
 
My cat stopped waking me up because I started locking him out of the bedroom because I've such issues sleeping, if I get woken up I won't be able to go to sleep, but I started letting him in the bedroom again and in the mornings he just literally sits on the floor next to the bed staring at me until my alarm goes off and then he starts meowing like crazy. No clue what I did right, but soooo happy about this new behavior lol.
 
Ugh, my cat no longer wakes us up for food because he knows I won't feed him until I'm good and ready... But he purrs so loud and snuggles so hard (AND licks) he wakes me up anyways :laugh: it's really funny because if I'm half awake, he will slowly creep towards his snuggle spot with a hilarious look on his face waiting for me to either yell at him or push him away. If I open my arms to him, his look disappears and he hurries over to cuddle before I change my mind and decide I need sleep 🤣I love my little brat so much! My SO is keeping him while in medical school and I'm taking the dogs for vet school. Makes me tear up thinking about being so far from both of them!

PS. I ironically just got this text from him: "I wanted to KILL Arbor this morning, he's worse than the worst alarm clock ever! He's lucky he's cute"

LOL
 
vetmedhead said:
I do suspect a lot of these people are actually getting certification for their animals as emotional support animals rather than as service animals since service animals have to be trained to do something, whereas the presence of the emotional support animal is considered the "service" that it provides. The Fair Housing Act allows landlords to ask for documentation of a disability and documentation of the need for an emotional support/service animal, though the person is not required to disclose what their disability is (a note that basically says "I am a doctor and this person has a disability that this animals helps in some way" would work). For that reason many people do need to get documentation that their animals is providing some form of assistance so they do need paperwork.

I also know that at least in the dorms I worked at on my college campus you were required to have paperwork from a doctor stating that you needed the animal (not why, just that you did) in order to be approved to have an animal in the buildings. If the person from this ad got her dog when she lived on campus she may have needed to have paperwork and she just happens to still have it/use it for the apartments she lives in now.

https://www.animallaw.info/article/faqs-emotional-support-animals
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I know some people that go the service dog route rather than the ESA for housing. I was under the impression that landlords could reject an ESA but not necessarily a service dog -- similar to how airplanes can say they're "at capacity" for ESAs but they'll boot a pet in a carrier so that a service animal can be on the plane. I thought the ADA overruled (overrode?) the Fair Housing Act and made it so that verbal assurance that an animal was a service animal was all that was required whereas ESAs are always required to have documentation from a licensed mental health professional. I was told, by a friend with a service dog, that a lot of places will require documentation, wearing of a vest, an ID badge, etc even though they're technically not allowed to enforce that requirement. She said she was at a hotel once that required her to put her dog's harness on every single time the dog had to go to the bathroom (and the dog had a UTI at this point in time, so that was fairly frequent). She did it, in order to not raise a fuss, but told me that if she'd wanted to she could have made a big enough stink about how they weren't allowed to require that of her. I don't know how true that is, since I haven't looked into that specific part of the law.
 
My kitties need to be separated to eat because Mr. Foodmonster will bully the other two and eat all their food. My timid kitty will just calmly walk away and not eat. So no automatic feeders in this house until they make one with cat recognition technology and anti-theft deterrents.
 
missdarjeeling said:
My kitties need to be separated to eat because Mr. Foodmonster will bully the other two and eat all their food. My timid kitty will just calmly walk away and not eat. So no automatic feeders in this house until they make one with cat recognition technology and anti-theft deterrents.
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they do have cat recognition tech.
 
WildZoo said:
I'm not going crazy, am I? I could have sworn someone had posted a YouTube guide to getting into vet school in here last night. But I was half asleep...
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That happened. You aren't crazy. Lol. She also put it on the pre vet FB page.


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dyachei said:
they do have cat recognition tech.
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I want something to measure out the food for me and make sure each cat only gets their food :laugh:

But then maybe they won't love me as much because I won't be the one feeding them 😱
 
vetmedhead said:
Especially when kitties eat it and get to have surgery to remove the foreign bodies... :scared:

And wait, I think this means that dragons weren't the only protection against Thread. I bet kitties would have played with it and it wouldn't have even been a threat.



Meanwhile, I'm over here as the person who splits the cat food up into portions and feeds the kitties three times a day...
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You will be hard pressed to do three times a day at the very least by the time you get to 4th year :laugh:

And I'm over here free feeding my cats thinking "as long as they don't get TOO fat"
 
WildZoo said:
I'm not going crazy, am I? I could have sworn someone had posted a YouTube guide to getting into vet school in here last night. But I was half asleep...
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I think it's good others are willing to help, but I don't understand the guides.

My vet school application video would be 30 seconds and say:

"Listen up bitches. Get good grades. Get volunteer experience. Do good on da GRE. Fill out the application. Don't write a **** personal statement and market yourself well. Congratulations, you might get into vet school. In tomorrow's video I'll show you how to reapply if you don't get in."
 
WildZoo said:
I'm not going crazy, am I? I could have sworn someone had posted a YouTube guide to getting into vet school in here last night. But I was half asleep...
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I think she also posted it in the do's and don't's thread. I planned to watch it today and snerk at it (if applicable) but alas.

It's like, you get into (one) veterinary school and that, therefore, makes you and expert at getting into (all) veterinary school(s)? Meh.

I did like her hair tho. I could never pull off the silver/grey/lavender thing.
 
I watched and it was decent. It was pretty long and mostly about the application process. She skimmed through the actual important parts like "get diversity of experience" and "find the right way to study" Personally I think the hardest part of getting into vet school is more the before you start vmcas. Trying to figure out what experiences you need, finding somewhere to actually give you that experience, how to plan classes ahead of time for applying out of state. How to deal with all the competition you hear around you and to just focus on yourself and not get discouraged, etc. Most advisors just tell you what classes you need for that in state vet school. I had to go back after I graduated to take some extra classes so I could apply to more places. I never thought about that during my undergrad. I also don't think posting her video here was the best since everyone in this forum pretty much knows how to get into vet school seeing as we all just went through it. But you can still see the video, its on youtube.


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Abney said:
You will be hard pressed to do three times a day at the very least by the time you get to 4th year :laugh:

And I'm over here free feeding my cats thinking "as long as they don't get TOO fat"
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Hopefully I'll be able to manage since the three times a day feedings are more like" in the morning before school", "in the evening when I get back from school", and "set out whatever they don't finish at night while I sleep".

It's more like twice a day feeding plus snack time. :heckyeah:
 
vetmedhead said:
Hopefully I'll be able to manage since the three times a day feedings are more like" in the morning before school", "in the evening when I get back from school", and "set out whatever they don't finish at night while I sleep".

It's more like twice a day feeding plus snack time. :heckyeah:
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Yeah I could see that. I just leave for the hospital at around 6:30am a lot of days and on a good day get home at 7:30pm so I was thinking 3 meals would be rough
 
PellsBells93 said:
I watched and it was decent. It was pretty long and mostly about the application process. She skimmed through the actual important parts like "get diversity of experience" and "find the right way to study" Personally I think the hardest part of getting into vet school is more the before you start vmcas. Trying to figure out what experiences you need, finding somewhere to actually give you that experience, how to plan classes ahead of time for applying out of state. How to deal with all the competition you hear around you and to just focus on yourself and not get discouraged, etc. Most advisors just tell you what classes you need for that in state vet school. I had to go back after I graduated to take some extra classes so I could apply to more places. I never thought about that during my undergrad. I also don't think posting her video here was the best since everyone in this forum pretty much knows how to get into vet school seeing as we all just went through it. But you can still see the video, its on youtube.


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Oh haha. I my home state didn't have a vet school so I didn't have that problem. Everything was out of state
 
vetmedhead said:
Hopefully I'll be able to manage since the three times a day feedings are more like" in the morning before school", "in the evening when I get back from school", and "set out whatever they don't finish at night while I sleep".

It's more like twice a day feeding plus snack time. :heckyeah:
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This is exactly how I feed my cat haha
 
WildZoo said:
I've just gone back to doing this as well, and it's funny because I literally call that last meal snack time :laugh:
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vetmedhead said:
I just start everything with "cat". Do you want your cat breakfast? Eat your cat dinner! Are you hungry for cat snacks?
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I feed her "snack" late at night so she doesn't climb on my head in the middle of the night and start purring. Cats.🙄
 
mmmdreamerz said:
I feed her "snack" late at night so she doesn't climb on my head in the middle of the night and start purring. Cats.🙄
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Mine climbs on my head anyway. The other night we got into a fight because he sat on my head and tried to eat my curtains/blinds for three hours. Silly kitten.
 
dyachei said:
they have microchip coded food bowls
they only open for the right chip
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Whoa. This is like the same techy doggy door I want to get after graduation that only lets out/in the critters that have the doodad on their collars
Though I bet my asshat cats would still mess it up.
 
Abney said:
Whoa. This is like the same techy doggy door I want to get after graduation that only lets out/in the critters that have the doodad on their collars
Though I bet my asshat cats would still mess it up.
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My friend has one of these so she can let certain cats come in and go out to her outdoor enclosure. One of her scarel cats doesn't have a collar on though and has figured out that if he waits for a cat with a collar to come up he can go in and out. He's the only one who has figured it out though, the others are block-heads. It works pretty well for them except when they lose their collars, but that's easily fixed.
 
morninqlory said:
My friend has one of these so she can let certain cats come in and go out to her outdoor enclosure. One of her scarel cats doesn't have a collar on though and has figured out that if he waits for a cat with a collar to come up he can go in and out. He's the only one who has figured it out though, the others are block-heads. It works pretty well for them except when they lose their collars, but that's easily fixed.
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1. Wtf is a scarel cat?
2. It's for the poops. The meowy powowwies don't get to go outside!
 
Scarel = not actually feral cat... just scaredy cat who people would think is feral.

Her two scarels actually both enjoying being petted... just not when you're looking. The male has to be next to another cat to be comfortable coming up for pets and the female hides under the bed except when it's really quiet in the house and you're laying on her level, be that on the bed or floor. If you approach the male outside he will hiss all crazy at you... kind of amusing because he's actually really sweet.
 
Officially moving into new town for vet school today...

Cried at the very end of my last day of work. Been there almost 3 years, gonna miss those folks. I wasn't crying until sometime else teared up. Dang it! 😛

Oh well. School will keep me busy. Akari worrying about school before it starts lol
 
wheelin2vetmed said:
Re-posting the open position for vet school sugar momma. What I don't have in lower limbs I make up for in various random talents you likely don't care about.

Inquire within, vacancy must be filled promptly.
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You're probably posting in the wrong place if you want a sugar mama, we're all in the same boat as you 😉
 
Moved into my apartment today for school and this is what I was greeted with
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PellsBells93 said:
Moved into my apartment today for school and this is what I was greeted with View attachment 207176


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Ew, that looks gnarly. Don't let Boba Fett fall into it. 😱

Is there anybody you can call to take a look at/fix that hot mess?
 
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