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Quick question. My cat Oedipus has had this third eyelid showing a lot lately, covering about 1/3 of his eye. And not just after waking up or being sleepy. He's eating and drinking and playing and being normal besides that, but it's just something I've never seen before with him or any of my other cats.

Any input? Could something be wrong?

So I am vegan due to environmental, ethical, and moral reasons, one of my morals being that we should be way more involved in the production of our food. My parents just asked me if I would eat eggs if they were raising their own chickens. We live out in the sticks, so the chickens would be free range there would be no hormones and they would live off of grass and organic grains and I know that my parents are all for the ethical treatment of animals, they just also believe that humans were not meant to live on a completely animal free diet. So part of me is saying, "yes, eat the eggs, they are from happy, healthy chickens!" and part of me is saying, "No! Those eggs could be little chicken babies!" I am at a loss for what to tell them. I love being vegan, but I sometimes think that if I was raising all of my own food, including chicken, pork, and/or cattle, that I would become omnivorous.

So, my question to you is, what would you do in this situation and what is your argument for or against eating the eggs and possibly the chicken?

Also, I would like to add that my parents would never force me to eat something that I was not comfortable eating and they are actually extremely supportive and cook and eat vegan meals with me when I am home. We actually tend to bond over finding and cooking new vegan recipes or "veganizing" old family recipes.

I appreciate the time you take to answer this question!

(To the mods: I am really new at tagging posts, so if I do this way wrong, please feel free to edit/moderate!)

Candlelight procession for the Christmas Holiday: North Carolina, USA

This community has been recommended to me by the lovely friend_of_tofu, so here is my first post. :-) I have tried finding the answer to the question below both by Google and the community tags, so I thought I would ask.

Can anyone recommend any good books about UK farming from an environmental impact angle and has a scientific basis?

Thanks!

hi guys,

i am trying to find a video that was posted here a while back. it doesn't seem to be in the "video" tags. it was a speech given by a veg*n doctor. one thing i distinctly remember was that he showed what human blood looked like after consuming meat. it was half fat.

thanks

My three year old cat, Loaf, sometimes has these coughing fits that make me concerned. When she's done coughing, she has a scratchy voice like she has a lot of mucus in her throat. My first cat pretty much never coughed up a hairball, so I don't know what a hairball cough sounds like. In case that's what this coughing is, I brush her daily and feed her a variety of hairball treats/foods to help keep it in control. She has coughed up a couple of pretty big hairballs since I got her, but never when I'm looking.

Loaf does have some health issues. My vet theorizes that when she was a kitten she got sick and was never treated, and ended up with damaged nasal passages. So she's got a lot of snot (which is clear colored and runny, so no infection), and she sneezes sometimes and sprays it everywhere! I have only had her for a year, so I don't know her history before that time. I don't yet have an air filter/purifier, but I do have a humidifier that I keep running 24/7 in my one bedroom apartment since it's very dry here with the heat running. Plus she loves to hang out with me in the bathroom when I shower, and she gets a nice long steam bath.

Loaf is otherwise very healthy. She's extremely energetic, has a healthy appetite, uses the litter box regularly with few problems. She has had some behavioral issues with the litter box in the past when I'm away for more than a few days, but hasn't had a UTI or anything. She's an indoor cat only, and has no contact with other animals.

But from a little research, I found out about feline asthma. Loaf will be having her yearly vet exam in a couple of months, so I'm going to ask more about this cough at that visit. I have been trying to catch her coughing on video so that I can show my vet the noise she makes to get a more accurate idea of what's going on. And I finally did! So I thought I'd post it here to see if anyone knows if this is hairball cough, asthma cough, or something else. I want to be able to ask the right questions and provide the right info to my vet when I take Loaf in. I will show my vet this video when I take her in as well. =)

We're visiting my aunt and paternal grandma today. My aunt has three dogs: Nissa (a mutt who looks like an ewok), Rosie (tiny tiny EVIL chihuahua) and Blacky (vicious mutt). Nissa and Rosie are females and Blacky is male. Blacky is always kept in away from visitors because he's so unfriendly. Nissa is very sweet but a bit snippy if you touch her arthritic rear end and is the alpha dog of the back. Rosie is a tiny, tiny chihuahua who growls at everyone but mostly because she's terrified.

Because Jingles is in heat would Nissa and Rosie be on the offensive since she's a new dog to "their" home and she's in heat? All of my aunt's dog's are fixed so Blacky couldn't even get her pregnant if he tried but would he really?

I hope someone has some experience with this because I'd like to prevent an all out pack attack on my dog.

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it's been about five days since i've been online. but, as you all know, with the holidays everything gets super hectic.

so anyway, you know the drill.


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My cat sleeps like this most of the time. My mom is still channeling the 80s and has a water bed, and one of the cats poked a hole in it.. it was an easy fix but she was no pleased.

( Lucien )