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Growing up my neighbors had a cat like that. He was an indoor/outdoor cat and would terrorize their elderly cat and attack people randomly from under bushes. He terrorized the neighborhood his entire life. I know it was not the fault of his owners because all of their other cats were always wonderful. It was just who he was. He would come to our house and challenge my male cat. My cat was very large, though, and heavy and strong. He would win against Kahuna every time. But their fights were awful. One time we came home from vacation and there was black hair (my cat) and grey hair (Kahuna) all over our garage. All over. My cat even got a torn cornea once. :( We had to start keeping our female cat inside because she was a cowering wimp, poor dear, and had no defense against him.
Anyway, it really could just be who your cat is. I would definitely look into the possibility that the antibiotic was the wrong thing for the specific bacteria causing your cat's UTI, though. Last UTI I had took two different antibiotics to go away.
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Can you just say, "I make HALF of what you do and you want the deduction instead of me?"
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They wouldn't stay around me very long. I've only sent out a few thank you notes in my life and all were when I was a small child and all with great distress and fighting on my part against having to do it. Honestly, I freeze up and have no idea what to say. As a kid I would break down into tears over not knowing what to say. Irrantional and stupid, I know that. :) I still can't do it.
I thank the person in person or give them a very thankful phone call. If that's not good enough for some people, oh well. It doesn't matter in my life anyhow because I think I've received one thank you letter in my whole life. Obviously they're not important to anyone around me, either.
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We use liquid stevia and it has a weird taste if you use too much. But there is a decent happy middle ground where things are nice and sweet without any weird taste. In fact, I have to over sweeten things to get the weird taste, so it's not a problem anyways.
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Yeah, I do, but I live in a cash society. That said, I've always preferred cash.
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Thank you for that. I needed to laugh.
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I don't have an SUV, but I have a really big truck. We need it to get anywhere here. One of those tiny economical cars would get you stranded out here. I need 4 wheel drive and a good height clearance. My truck even has a lift on it and big tires.
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Well, I haven't heard back so I am assuming we are moving on.
It is a tough time right now for businesses and I know he was eager for ours. He had wine glasses hanging for decoration; I did not ask him to remove those. Only to take out of sight the 20+ bottles of hard liquor he had standing.
I am assuming it is on principle if he does not reply. Which is fine. I was already adjusting a lot of expectations since fx. it was not clear it was in a home, nor was there even a sign outside, space there is much tighter than anything I would have expected, but I would have gone along with that.
Anyways. On the look again.
Nadia
Sorry he didn't reply. You need space to practice martial arts anyway. Hopefully you find something better quickly. :)
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Depends on if he's a nice guy or not.
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That story about the son being removed from the family was discussed here before.
I have a homeschooling friend who spent 6 months in Sweden last year (as part of a professor exchange or similar). She said that some homeschooling families are moving to an island between Sweden and Finland because it was still close enough to Sweden to see family, but it was officially Finnish and homeschooling was legal there.
HSLDA has a similar story: http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/Sweden/201107080.asp
I want to live on a homeschooling island. Just had to get that out.
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Whether it is enforced or not, as a resident in a foreign country (except for some diplomats/military) you are supposed to follow the laws of said country.
Now, I realize that in practice that looks very different across the globe, but the technical reality is that the laws of the host country apply to all residents.
It does look very different across the globe. The people of any given country decide which laws apply to whom. It's not cut and dry. If they don't mean them to apply to everyone, they don't apply to everyone.
And at what point is someone truly a resident anyway? Some families take very long vacations. Should they be required to enroll their children? Some people consider themselves a resident when they are living in a country for a month long work contract. Should they be required to enroll their kid in school? Here, they would actually not be allowed to. Here, if you don't enroll by a certain date, you can't go to school at all until the next enrollment. If you move here mid school year? Too bad. They won't even let you comply with schooling laws. There is a huge population of indigenous people who can't get into school because they don't have papers. They aren't allowed to comply with schooling laws. Nobody cares. Well, almost nobody. We help them get papers if they come to us. But the schools don't care.
I am starting to see now why people here are always telling me I don't understand because I'm American. Our way of thinking is not universal. We come in with our ideas on how things should be. Our ways are not everyone's ways. What is cut and dry and obvious to us is sometimes ridiculous in other cultures. And what's cut and dry and obvious in other cultures is sometimes ridiculous to us. There is universal right and wrong (don't murder innocents, for example). But there are things that we insist are "right" that are only a product of us seeing morality through the lens of our own culture. Saying a law should apply to everyone when the makers of said law never meant that to be the case and the people in said country don't think that should be the case, is strange.
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My nana put a box of pudding in her cakes. Never has a cake been so moist.
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No. Why? Why not just be happy for people?
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It was 2 years for me before I had a period at all, but I nursed exclusively for 15 months (medical tongue/swallowing/oral defensiveness issues. Not because I wanted to.) and then nursed a lot til he was just turning 2. But I also have never had regular periods anyway.
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You know I see this come up all the time. If someone lives in the US and is not American, do they have to follow the laws here? Yes.
It's not different anywhere else.
Actually, that's not the case. It's not the same everywhere.
Here, we're not beholden to the Mexican schooling system. Thank goodness, too, because it's downright awful. If you asked someone here in my little area about that they would most likely think that it would be odd to think that we should be. They'd probably say that we're American so why should we be under Mexican schooling. The few (total of 3 actually) American kids I know that do go to the school here have a very hard time. The schools aren't set up to work with them and really mostly don't want to bother. In the local K class a couple years ago the two who spoke English were sat in the corner all day and not interacted with. My friend's high school aged daughter grew up in Mexican schools around here, but it was hard for her to convince the local elementary school principle to let her daughter in at all. He was very against it.
Different cultures see it different ways. Also, I'm not even sure that in American a foreign guest would be expected to follow local schooling rules. I've never seen the law address that one way or another.
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Can you bring a thermos for coffee or tea? That way you wouldn't have the sugar or the artificial stuff.
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Honestly?
They cannot be singled out. If homeschooling is illegal except under special circumstances, and this family does not meet those circumstances, then it is illegal for everybody, regardless of their ethnic origin and religious affiliation. I felt like the articule put an undue weight on the fact the family is Jewish. This is a problem of Swedish laws as such, not of the fact that there are certain rules forced upon this family which are not forced upon other families - besides, you have to abide by the laws of the land you are in, even if you disagree with them, or attempt to change them in ways other than skirting them on your own. Same rules for all.
Furthermore, do not take my word for this, but I am pretty convinced there *is* a day school in that place. Probably not Chabad? However, I am not sure it is factually correct that they do not have an alternative to Swedish public schools and I am not sure there is any real basis for their claims that children might face discrimination (did they have such experience with schools or they imagine they might have?). And even if they lived in a system which did not offer any alternatives to government schools, they would be free to accept the law of the land, or to leave the land.
Sorry not to be "supportive", but I am honestly not sure how much this is a *Jewish* issue, and how much this is a general Swedish law issue which they are trying to portray as a Jewish / antisemitism issue.
Ester Maria, what about this part? "The longtime ban on shechita (Jewish ritual preparation of kosher meat), and recent laws tightening restrictions on Jewish ritual circumcision"
That doesn't make it sound like a Jewish-friendly place to me.
Frankly, I'm flabbergasted. I'm also flabbergasted about Germany and their recent homeschooling issues as well, though. People tend to see Europe as sooooo forward. Sometimes it seems backward to me.
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You *must* go to the Salt Lick http://www.saltlickbbq.com/
I can no longer enjoy any other BBQ. I have had it as good as it gets at the Salt Lick.
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Your best option is unplugging from the internet. LOL
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I have been profoundly grateful for the support we've gotten from our vets and their staff. You hear stories about people who seem to just want to get the owners to spend more and more money, but I've found our vets to be extremely understanding, reassuring and compassionate, as well as willing to give us an honest and realistic view of what's in the best interest of the animal.
Me, too. I'm grateful for the vets we've dealt with. They actually seemed to love our puppies. The one today looked like he was going to break down he was so sad. I am glad he didn't detach himself from the situation. I think he is a great man.
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Thanks. As you say, at least we can all comfort each other. For us, the issues with this last cat came totally out of the blue. We had anticipated at least a couple of more years with him.
It must be extremely hard to lose one pet that is so young, much less two and so close together! I lost my first cat when she was three (they never figured out what was wrong). At least with ours, we take some comfort that they had much better and longer lives than they would have had if they were feral.
Yes, my friend comforted me by saying that they had a better life than they otherwise would have if we hadn't rescued their mama. They'd have been born on the street, lived hungry, and died sooner. That was very kind of him because I always worry about whether there was something else I could have done. The vet reiterated today that this is better and that there is nothing more to be done.
I'm sorry your cat's issues were sudden. It's nice sometimes to have time to get used to the idea that you are going to lose your pet. I'm sorry you didn't have that.
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Cut in pieces/remove skin and seeds
Cook in pot 'til mushy
Eat
Help Me Keep My Kitten
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They definitely can. I had a dog who was dumb as a rock and I swear she had doggy Autism. She never looked people in the eye, ever. If she wanted something, she went to your feet as if they were your face or something. It was like she couldn't connect with people's faces. We took her through beginner dog classes twice and then they moved her up to intermediate just so we wouldn't have to do beginner's again. It's not like she has learned much. She could do three things, all at random. Sit, down, and her version of heel, which was her jumping against your leg and then sitting to your side. It didn't matter which you asked her to do, she would do those randomly until she got it right.
I loved her, but I've never met a dumber dog. And she wasn't just dumb. Something was wrong with her mind, too. She was beautiful though. Curly blonde hair with little white freckles on her nose. Her papers clearly showed that she was inbred. :001_huh::lol: I'm not kidding. People, don't breed your dogs to their own family. The results aren't pretty.