Tell me who it was and I’ll message them telling them that you can’t reply to their PM.
They have the setting turned off that allows other people to message them. Tell them to fix that tooOkay and then we can also experiment and see if you can actually message them. Science lol. Tysonu8 is username
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Tali has had her belly pouch since she was a puppy. She did have some extra weight for a little while, but we got it off! Her belly is just her weird genetics though.She has a very minor pouch. It's accentuated because she's hunched over. I don't think there's enough for it to wobble
Figure if I can't control my own diet, at least I can control my dog's. this way one of us stays fit!!!!
That makes me so mad. Especially that third picture where she’s like “I’m just a good girl. What did I do???” At least in Philly, it’s just a weight restriction since a lot of places are really just too small to have bigger dogs. Have you looked into renting a house with other people? Houses don’t usually have breed/size restrictions.
Wow that’s so stupid. I know some towns pass their own breed specific legislation which is super messed up. And I’ll totally follow her on insta. Never too many social media dogs to follow!They totally do!! At least in my experience. What's nice about Gail is that she is only 40 pounds, so if someplace had a size restriction she's usually okay for it, or they make an exception because the most common restriction I've seen is 35 pounds. We aren't presently looking for a place to live so we're okay for now (I refer to myself and the dog as "we," there is no one else LOL), but I imagine it's something that will come up again in the future.
Feel free to follow her on insta @guiltygail. We haven't updated in a while but probably will soon.
I'm so sorry you are having a hard time, compounded by missing your baby and husband, ****ty roommates, and the difficulties of school! Just know that you are not alone in feeling like you don't belong either with classmates or in your studies. I believe in you and am sending you long distance hugs
Thank you for the kind words! Yeah I just started and I've been out of school for a while so everything has been hard. Doesn't help I am one of the oldest students in the class so I am very much in a different life point than some of the other students. Makes it hard to make connections.
I feel you. You'll connect with a few people and that will make a difference. I definitely am feeling really good about a group now that I'm in my second semester. Everyone is probably floundering a little bit too so it may not even be that people don't like you, but just so much stress tied to everyone adjusting!
And like @mmmdreamerz said, it took a little while for friendships to settle in. You’re still so new to things, don’t panic yet!
I’m also wondering how breed restrictions can be enforced or challenged if the vet records say “lab mix.” What are they going to do, genetic testing? Who’s going to do that? I’m willing to bet that a landlord isn’t going to shell out the money for it in the event that he’s actually wrong and looks like a jerk. And if it’s something like the Royal canin one which goes back to great grandparents, if one great grand parent was a pit bull would that be enough? It just doesn’t make any sense.
Make sure you are doing file reviews with every school that will do them. They are the only ones who can tell you exactly what was missing in your application and what can be improved. There might not be too much you can work on for grades at this point if that’s what they want, but if they want varied experience or research it shouldn’t be too late to get more experience over the summer or see if you could get into a lab at school for the summer.
I plan to! I don’t know how feasible it is to do research since I’m post bacc at this uni and don’t really have a relationship with any profs and can’t do a file review with my IS until late April which doesn’t leave much time to get with a prof. I do have some, not much, from my bachelors. I thought I had varied experience (work in small, intern with exotics and wildlife, own large and large non vet experience work) so the only thing I can think is large animal vet job? Cause yeah definitely have way too many hours to change my gpa which is definitely subpar, but I did get my associates for tech and graduate with a 3.98 so I showed I can do better, albeit not high level science courses. Calculated together my gpa doesn’t look too bad.
Maybe they're Canadian? Doesn't the application cycle for those schools run later? Either way, it is a sucky situation.
Yes. Canadian here. It was the only Canadian school I could apply to due to the strict residency requirements. I had the two vet references and it was the third non-vet referee who let me down. I didn’t think I was going to even get an interview but it hurts not to know.
I just meant to tell the vet whatever mix you want and then it shows up on the regular paperwork as that breed, not necessarily having them write something separate specifically claiming that.
Which school?
Last year I didn’t apply because I didn’t have the two vet references. This year I was able to apply but it was the non-vet reference that held me back. I could have asked other people too
OVC. I’ve already contacted them and they said no
The "this was a mistake, they're going to retract my acceptance/something bad will happen to ruin it" etc. feelings faded once I actually started classes and got in the thick of it (too busy??), but it will probably be replaced by similar yet differently-aimed self-doubts as we continue. I'm almost preemptively nervous for intro to clinics/Jr. surgery etc., but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
I'm still expecting them to take away my veterinary license any moment now. Imposter syndrome doesn't go away, I just am getting better at ignoring it, I think.
