It's hard to trust studies like this, but it makes sense that the optimistic would live longer lives/have a higher quality of life. When you are positive, more positive things tend to happen. I know that my life began to change for the better when I abandoned negativity. I have never looked back. If I die at fifty or one hundred, I can honestly say that I have made the best of it.
I'm not a Fanilow, but I have to admit that I love "Copacabana" and did even when I was a teenager. This coming from a total metal head. What happens if the teens decide that Manilow is suddenly cool? I think tactics like these are pretty silly, to be honest.
It was found that John was taking discarded food from the monkeys, not that they were actively feeding him or necessarily taking him in. He just sort of followed them around.
Noelegy, that's awesome! Being a vet tech is the most rewarding job I've ever had, and I would still be doing it if the qualifications weren't so different in the UK. Here, you have to have a mentor at a clinic to be in the program, and be in the program to have a mentor at a local clinic. I'd have been happy to do it, because classes would have been way easy for me with the five years I have in the field, two of those years spent with a specialist,but no veterinarians in the area were participating when I was looking into it. Since it was not vital that I work anyway, I settled into being a housewife and found that it's anything but boring.
It was never a matter of dissatisfaction with the job itself, or any sort of burn out. I enjoyed it far too much for that.
I used to be a vet tech, and while anesthesia in the hands of a competent veterinarian is generally safe, there is still always a risk. Putting an animal under unecessarily, or a human for that matter, is never something a person should take lightly.
This is horrific not in that a tattoo is so harmful, because animals have been getting tattooed for identification for years (obviously not on an elaborate and ridiculous scale like this tat), but for the reasoning behind it. So it's a week of itching and pain afterwards for the cat, after a relatively risky procedure. Not a big deal if you look at it from that perspective, but it is a big deal when you consider the fact that it's bordering on abusive because there is no practical purpose for it.
Those of you commenting about cropping tails and ears on dogs - at one time, for some (not all) breeds, there was a practical purpose behind this. I don't agree with it unless it's for a working dog that would fall into this category. People, and kennel clubs are moving away from the unecessary ear and tail cropping little by little. Boxers in Germany are automatically disqualified if you crop their ears in any competition, and the uproar over the breeding practices in the UK has brought a lot of this stuff to light and bringing about changes.
Putting a tattoo on a cat, or any animal for the sole purpose of stroking one's ego is stupid and wrong. I don't know what's worse with this - that the owner thought of it at all, or that someone actually said, "Yeah, I'll do it."
SeyrWeyr... I think this idiot is just doing this because it's Barbie's fiftieth anniversary. I guess when the Bratz dolls become more iconic like Barbie is, then people will attack them too.
That or they've never heard of Bratz dolls in West Virginia...
This is stupid and indicative of how skewed priorities are in government.
If a Barbie doll is going to trigger a girl into a maelstrom of body issues, chances are, those issues were already simmering under the surface. It's pathetic that modern society blames everything but the source of their failings/problems, whether that source is the individual, their parents' lack of parenting, or a mental issue.
If parents took a bit of control and interest in their children rather than coddling them or neglecting them outright, they would raise their little girls to have a healthy sense of self esteem and see themselves as more than something meant to please and be pretty. Then perhaps girls wouldn't look at Barbie, runway models, or attention seeking starlets as role models they strive to imitate.
I seriously doubt this bill will be passed, but seriously, isn't this a bit more nannying, PC garbage than people really need? A lot of little girls like Barbie, and it should be up to her parents as to whether or not she should play with the stupid things, not the state.
Before we get on another tired American bashing kick, DD, keep in mind that the Stupid Award goes to the Welsh person who called 999 to report a UFO that turned out to be the moon.
While I don't think the McNuggest issued merited a 911 call, there is some twisted logic to it.
This is wrong on so many levels. It's one thing to tattoo your pet for ID purposes, which was a common thing to do before the microchip. That was a matter of practicality and far from elaborate. To do it for a frivolous purpose is just putting an animal through unecessary risk with the anesthetic, unecessary pain, and really just all around stupid.
I have four tats, and I made the choice to get them as a rational human being, but a pet cannot make that choice. I just don't see anything about this that is remotely ethical.
It was never a matter of dissatisfaction with the job itself, or any sort of burn out. I enjoyed it far too much for that.
This is horrific not in that a tattoo is so harmful, because animals have been getting tattooed for identification for years (obviously not on an elaborate and ridiculous scale like this tat), but for the reasoning behind it. So it's a week of itching and pain afterwards for the cat, after a relatively risky procedure. Not a big deal if you look at it from that perspective, but it is a big deal when you consider the fact that it's bordering on abusive because there is no practical purpose for it.
Those of you commenting about cropping tails and ears on dogs - at one time, for some (not all) breeds, there was a practical purpose behind this. I don't agree with it unless it's for a working dog that would fall into this category. People, and kennel clubs are moving away from the unecessary ear and tail cropping little by little. Boxers in Germany are automatically disqualified if you crop their ears in any competition, and the uproar over the breeding practices in the UK has brought a lot of this stuff to light and bringing about changes.
Putting a tattoo on a cat, or any animal for the sole purpose of stroking one's ego is stupid and wrong. I don't know what's worse with this - that the owner thought of it at all, or that someone actually said, "Yeah, I'll do it."
That or they've never heard of Bratz dolls in West Virginia...
If a Barbie doll is going to trigger a girl into a maelstrom of body issues, chances are, those issues were already simmering under the surface. It's pathetic that modern society blames everything but the source of their failings/problems, whether that source is the individual, their parents' lack of parenting, or a mental issue.
If parents took a bit of control and interest in their children rather than coddling them or neglecting them outright, they would raise their little girls to have a healthy sense of self esteem and see themselves as more than something meant to please and be pretty. Then perhaps girls wouldn't look at Barbie, runway models, or attention seeking starlets as role models they strive to imitate.
I seriously doubt this bill will be passed, but seriously, isn't this a bit more nannying, PC garbage than people really need? A lot of little girls like Barbie, and it should be up to her parents as to whether or not she should play with the stupid things, not the state.
While I don't think the McNuggest issued merited a 911 call, there is some twisted logic to it.
I have four tats, and I made the choice to get them as a rational human being, but a pet cannot make that choice. I just don't see anything about this that is remotely ethical.