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Hatched out three little snakelets that are a potential world's first morph (hypo-charcoal-anery-lavender). One of them is named Bansidhe, but I'm blanking out on names for the other 2 boys.

They should mature to be white and very pale grays.

Baby #2-

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Baby #3-

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This thing is located at the Sunset Beach campground in California, though I very much believe it is non-native. Probably a good 20 feet tall with very large yellow blossoms and leathery leaves. The 'fuzz' on the fruit are sharp/barbed hairs that come off very easily and are obnoxious to remove from one's skin after embedding.

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I found this plant attempting to overtake some tea roses in a friend's backyard.

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I pulled this small vine out of a friend's garden where it was trying to overtake some tea roses. It was forming a solid mat up the plants.

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I have a foster kitten who is 6 weeks old. I've had him since he was 2 days old. He's had myriad problems in his already short life, and now I'm trying to get some more leads on what's wrong with him currently.

Parsnip has always seemed rather... slow. He's not a terribly inquisitive or playful kitten. He wobbles a little in the hind end when he walks, and trembles when he stands. He also has a reduced menace response, and his ability to track moving objects is poor. It usually takes him 2 to 3 seconds to register that something has passed through his field of vision.

He eats well. He is a large, well-proportioned kitten. He does not tremor more when focusing. He is not extra sleepy after he eats. The vet is running a blood panel to check for signs of a liver shunt or congenital hypothyroidism, but he does not fit most of the signs of those conditions.

When he was younger, he had low blood protein and edema because his original owner was feeding him strongly diluted formula. He had severe difficulties urinating even with stimulation for the first 10 days of life, then had a couple weeks of constipation and then a week of diarrhea, though we think the diarrhea was from the lactulose and enemas required to get any feces out of him.

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This little girl is a recent addition and I've yet to find the perfect name for her. I've some of mine named just because the sounds are pleasing to me (Dier, Vanay, Leshir, etc) and some that are plays on the animal itself ("I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" for an amel that hatched out super yellow, Nautley for one that is Not a Motley though she looks like one). But it's been a week and I'm still confounded.

Here is the little girl herself:

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This is Alyssum, my new 'foster' dog. These pictures are almost a month old. She's much less timid now.

Don't let the photos fool you. This dog has LOOOOONG legs. She's 11 pounds, and almost as tall as my sister-in-laws 25 pound dog. She's 7 months old in the photos, and that is her badly 'trimmed' to remove the burrs and foxtails from her fur. She has a long tail that, when she's happy, she holds in the most amazing circle over her back. Looks like someone stuck a hula-hoop to her butt. :P She has a white patch on her chin, and that white left leg has orange speckling all through it. Her hair is really fine, and single coated. We shaved her all the way shortly after these pictures, and the shortened hair is wavy and full of whorls. Very strange. She also has an underbite, and the leather of her ears is much shorter than it appears in the photos.

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Thank you for reading this. I'm a vet tech at a cat-only hospital and we were brought a litter of 6 kittens to foster about 2 weeks ago. We only have one left. Each kitten that has died has presented with the same signs and pattern leading to demise and as the vets we have aren't entirely sure what is up with them (not much fostering experience) I figured I'd ask those who have had many a tiny kitten in their care.

The litter was about 8 days old when brought in. 3 showed neurologic signs from the get-go (uncoordinated/uncontrolled circular motions of the head, often getting stuck in a dorso-flexion position.. maybe cerebellar hypoplasia from panleuk exposure?) and one of those was already extremely lethargic and had missed a couple meals. We attempted to tube-feed that kitten and it vomited a copious amount of pale white/green liquid that smell of feces and rot, and died later that afternoon. Over the next two days the other neurologic kittens also refused meals, vomited, and died.

That left the three "normal" kittens who were all eating well and growing. I had two of these kittens in my care. Then last sunday the lone kitten refused a meal, went lethargic, vomited that foul stuff and died. He'd been otherwise normal before that. This naturally made me nervous.

Yesterday morning my male kitten repeated that pattern, despite eating vigorously the meal before and toddling about with his normal energy level. I am now very worried that my seemingly healthy, eating, urinating, defecating and lone remaining kitten is going to follow her siblings. Have any of you encountered this before and if so, was a diagnosis made?

My mother was diagnosed years ago with TLE, so I got to see how the seizures eventually worsened from simple partials all the way up to a rare tonic-clonic.

Starting about ten years ago I believe I began developing it as well. Odd episodes where suddenly nothing seems real and I get highly disoriented, sometimes coupled with rage or fear, but not often thankfully. And normally the feeling lasted from just a few minutes up to maybe 20.

Not the last time however, and my own research so far hasn't been particularly helpful. Basically, I think I had two seizures a day apart. The first one was very short. For about 2 minutes everything looked oddly flat and very far away, but that resolved. Last night however, I very suddenly got extremely disoriented and had vertigo/light headedness. And it lasted for at least 4 hours, because that was around the point at which I fell asleep. All today I've still been feeling weird and rather slow and fuzzy and it has me very worried. I'm going to be calling my doctor about it soon, but I'd like some advice from people who know about it... just how long can the symptoms last?

Horoscopes and astrology have always amused me. I am the most atypical Libra female you are likely to find (tomboy, blunt, and sometimes rude, couldn't care less about what I wear, hate flirting, hate social gatherings) and the love of my life is a Cancer male who shows.... maybe 50% of the qualities typically attributed to Cancers.

Amasingly enough, despite all that I've read, we are a damn near perfect match for each other.

So, how does astrology deal with situations like this? What do you do when faced with someone who is almost the polar opposite of their sign in a relationship that should be doomed to never work well at all?

if you want more info... I'm virgo ascendant, capricorn moon.

I have a 15 month old English Shepherd mix. The ES is particularly noted for its strong guardian instincts. Normally this has limited itself to quiet "mom, something's weird"-type wuffs or barking at the door if someone shows up late at night. However, last week while on a very late night walk I stopped to chat with someone and then noticed that my dog was very intently staring at something behind me. I turned to look at noticed an older woman standing in the gate to her garden, in the shadows. After a few moments she started to walk forward and my dog went nuts, lunging and bark-growling and generally sounding like he wanted to rip her to shreds.

This reaction was completely abnormal for him. Usually everyone is "bestest friend ever love joy cookies!" to my dog, even at night. And even after this incident, he was excited-happy bouncing whenever we'd walk by someone on the way home. The only difference I can see is that the woman was "hiding".

So, I would love some advice on *channeling* his protectiveness nature, not shutting it down entirely. Any comments to that effect will be ignored. I feel that attempting to remove from him entirely a behaviour that was *bred into* the breed on purpose will only lead to a breakdown sometime in the future that could have disastrous results.

Also, I would love some references for appropriate trainers in the San Francisco Bay Area of california, if anyone who sees this lives around there. My pup has been... interesting to try to train due to his sometimes aggravating tendency to think and reason his way around a command. Such as a "down stay" clearly.... means that he needs to stay laying down! Thus inching forward slowly is completely okay, so long as he's still laying down. He's only finally starting to learn that stay means "in this location".

This was written back in 2004 immediately after a euthanasia at the vet hospital where I worked. The vet there at the time pet the animal one last time and whispered "Sleep Well, darling". The words began flowing into my head, and out came this:

Sleep well my darling, you've earned your rest

you played your part and did your best.

There's no more trials, and no more tests.

Relax, enjoy your sleeping.

For night is coming near

and the ending of this story

the sun is westering

see the last flames of its glory

All was calm, and all was still

upon this solemn morning

The sun did rise with shuttered eyes

and your troubles died aborning.

For night is coming near

and the ending of this story.

The sun is westering,

feel the last flames of its glory.

For night shall come unto us all

a sweet and secret lover

and we shall claim that dark embrace

and then seek for no other.

For night is coming near

and the ending of this story

The sun is westering

free the last flames of its glory.

This was literally written in under a minute in a fit of irritation over an assignment in my creative writing class. It was a bloody stupid assignment. *grumbles* No it is not a haiku, nor meant to be.

The white jasmine

blossoms falling in an eternal storm

The scent

whispers in the wind

lingers

then fades.

A bit of a background: I broke up with my fiance some 6 months ago, ending an 8 year relationship. Outside circumstances coupled with both of us dealing with stresses differently caused us to grow in different direction. In the end, I felt like I had a room-mate that I happened to share a bed with. Realising this, I also realised that it would be cruel to both of us to continue. I was snappy and irritated at the time, and he deserved a woman who loved him as much as he loved me.

Burried underneath this, were feelings I had for another guy. I tried to be good, tried to kill the emotions but they remained over 7 years and little face to face contact. We are so very eminently compatible. Being with him feels like finally coming "home" and being apart leaves me aching. It's like my entire being sings when he's near me.

I'm not used to feeling so strongly about *anything* and it scares me a little. I am working to not let the depth of my feelings leak through, and so far succeeding. But

I love guessing what mixes might be in other people's dogs, and I love hearing people guess what is in mine. I actually know who my mutt's parents are so... if anyone is bored, guess away! Just a note: These pics are several months old. His fur is now medium length and wavy, and he has thick feathering on his hind legs but not his tail.

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I'm looking randomly for any clues on what to research and confront my stupid general practitioner with.

For several months now, the outside area around my near has been hurting. Over the past 3 weeks, it's gotten to the point where it will flare up to near excruciating. I went to my doctor, and he focused on the fact that I will sometimes get twinges on the front of my knee. He decided I have a patellar misallignment. After asking how that would relate to my major source of pain, he said that it didn't really... but that my only problem was the patella! *stab*

So, I did the dumb exercises and now while I don't get anymore twinges, the back of my knee is hurting worse than ever. No matter what position is it in, whether I'm laying down or standing up, it's sore and then flares to agony. The joint feels stiff all around now, and it's sometimes hard to extend or flex the leg.

This has always been something of a curiosity for me. I usually have dreams wherein I die at least 3 or 4 times a year, if not more frequently. Most of these deaths would be considered 'traumatic'; being stabbed, beaten, shot, exploded, etc. However, these dreams never produce any fear for me, and I often observe my dead body with some annoyance for having let it happen. And then I resurrect myself and keep going. O_o The only 'deaths' that scare me are deaths that occur from falling.

So... what am I to make of my death dreams where I don't stay dead?

All the websites I've found haven't really been forthcoming about how you *join* them. I have a 4 month old farm shepherd/cattle dog mix and he *really* needs some prolonged physical activity. Thanks in advance.