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Facebook Aunt posted:You put one on your dick, didn't you? Rrrrrright on the tip.
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Is this you OP? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFssw7WGJNE
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Apr 25, 2019 00:02
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Facebook Aunt posted:You put one on your dick, didn't you? Leeches are hermaphrodites so it's not a weird thing to do
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Apr 25, 2019 00:46
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it's both gay and not gay that way so strictly speaking no one can criticize you
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Apr 25, 2019 00:50
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Schrodinger's dickworm.
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Apr 25, 2019 00:55
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This thread seriously has me wanting pet leeches. I mean, they aren't dangerous, don't need tons of space and they don't eat a lot. I used to have a black widow and some scorpions in my kitchen. At least if leeches escape there isn't much of a "ow! gently caress!" factor. My poor fiance. I bring the weirdest poo poo home.
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Apr 25, 2019 01:15
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M_Sinistrari posted:That thread unnerved me so much that I've always kept it in mind when I hear black salve mentioned so a few years back when I developed a tunnelled abscess in my armpit and was doing the head compress treatment the doctor suggested before we discuss the possibility of surgery, I had a coworker who used to be a licensed nurse recommend I use black salve on it to 'draw out the abscess core' otherwise it'll never heal. Obviously never even planned on using the salve and it did creep me out that someone who was a nurse familiar with medicine actually recommending this crap. Maybe the nurse meant black ointment? It's a real thing (sometimes called drawing salve) that does draw things like ingrown hairs etc to the surface and isn't dangerous. Obviously one should be careful with wording when recommending such things.
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Apr 25, 2019 02:11
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RoboRodent posted:I think leeches are among the least horrifying things in this thread. They're gross, but harmless. And possibly helpful if you've had a body part reattached and need a friendly and hungry blood-draining source of anticoagulants. Yep. And also maggots, but I'm not in that google mood. Some things.... 
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veni veni veni posted:Is this you OP? No, that is a buffalo leech. They're like $300, which is more than I'm willing to spend on a big worm.
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Apr 25, 2019 03:23
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Big Centipede posted:No, that is a buffalo leech. They're like $300, which is more than I'm willing to spend on a big worm. haha. holy poo poo. there's a website just for mail ordering leeches. free shipping for orders over $500! stock up! https://www.leech.com/products/asian-medicinal-leech-buffalo-leeches
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uber_stoat posted:haha. holy poo poo. there's a website just for mail ordering leeches. free shipping for orders over $500! stock up! There's more than one. I ordered mine from a different site.
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Apr 25, 2019 04:09
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Otteration posted:Yep. And also maggots, but I'm not in that google mood. Some things.... Yeah, but maggots turn into flies and are thus extremely unpleasant. Leeches stay in water (most the time) and don't turn into anything else.
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Rhandhali posted:Don't know if this was her or not but I've had these in my Imgur for a while. Yes, that's her. It's pretty sad in she wanted to avoid any microsurgery scars and ended up with something far worse. fast cars loose anus posted:Maybe the nurse meant black ointment? It's a real thing (sometimes called drawing salve) that does draw things like ingrown hairs etc to the surface and isn't dangerous. Obviously one should be careful with wording when recommending such things. Nah, it wasn't drawing salve. I've used that before and it's something you can get over the counter at Walmart or Walgreens. I even asked if she meant something like Boyle or Prid but apparently that stuff wouldn't be strong enough and for black salve I'd have to order it online.
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Scathach posted:Okay so the secret is that for some reason nurses are more superstitious than any other group of people out there. I've never heard "vaccines are bad" and "carry this crystal around for x" and "fake sugar gives you cancer" from any other profession like I have from nurses. Don't even get me started on the "essential oils for your cancer" bullshit. As a vet tech I find this hilarious. For your pets we are the first ones rolling our eyes about raw food or grain-free diets or crystals or natural supplements. Seriously for a moment, the raw food diets can gently caress your pets up and the grain-free diets WILL make your pets have heart problems. Don't feed them raw or grain-free diets or they will likely die in a few months because that poo poo isn't as tested or regulated as most pet foods. I'm pretty sure the crystals or supplements don't do anything at all so if it makes you feel better, continue them. Raw diets promote salmonella in you and your pets. Grain-free diets give your pets heart failure sooner or later. Just feed a decent pet food and don't loving give them cheeseburgers or a whole ham or some poo poo that makes them vomit and poo poo blood uncontrollably for like 18 hours. Putting in a rectal foley to contain the bloody diarrhea in a bag is only fun the first time!
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empty sea posted:As a vet tech I find this hilarious. For your pets we are the first ones rolling our eyes about raw food or grain-free diets or crystals or natural supplements. Can you recommend a decent food brand? My dogs seem to love Merrick and I like the ingredients but it's so fkkin expensive.
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empty sea posted:As a vet tech I find this hilarious. For your pets we are the first ones rolling our eyes about raw food or grain-free diets or crystals or natural supplements. Do you have any sources to read on grain-free being less regulated or prone to heart problems, at least with obligate carnivores like cats? I've seen more about how food with grain causes allergies, diabetes, weight gain, etc. but nothing on regulation being relaxed for them or heart problems. Screw raw diet people, its a loving cult. Not only is raw more time-consuming to produce, its really easy to screw up the macro and micronutrients, contaminate your living space, and one study even found it made feces worse in bacterial load and consistency. When Rexie was diagnosed with her bowel disease, raw food cultists kept insisting we switch her to that, despite the fact that she can't process proteins correctly and a raw diet would have literally killed her.
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An aunt of mine used to breed dogs, a type of retriever that I've just realised I probably shouldn't name because it's not super common and even if she's evil I probably shouldn't doxx her. She was a big proponent of the Barf raw food diet, and pushed it heavily on people who bought puppies from her. Data point of one, but at least one of her stud dogs died early because of heart problems related to the diet. Despite this, she has (had?) business cards calling herself a "canine nutritionist." It used to be "canine dietician" and then mysteriously changed so dad and I wondered if she got a warning for using a protected term. All her education came from Google. She is also a dog anti-vaxxer, claiming that vaccines cause immune disorders and also they're not necessary because there's no rabies in this province! Spoiler, there is, she's wrong. My dad doesn't talk to his younger sister much anymore.
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Samovar posted:Yeah, but maggots turn into flies and are thus extremely unpleasant. K, you made me remember and look again, but maggots are cool too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy If the choice is maggots or the loss of a limb, well....
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I think it’s equally cool and crazy that maggots have developed so far into the niche of eating rotten meat that not only will they not eat fresh meat, but they have honed a razor sharp instinct for which meat is fresh and which is rotten specifically so they never accidentally eat fresh meat.
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Oh, is that how it works? I always assumed that they had to be monitored and taken away. That's really cool.
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Ariong posted:I think it’s equally cool and crazy that maggots have developed so far into the niche of eating rotten meat that not only will they not eat fresh meat, but they have honed a razor sharp instinct for which meat is fresh and which is rotten specifically so they never accidentally eat fresh meat. Fresh meat gets swatty
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I can only speak about what I've seen in the last 1.5 yrs in an ER vet hospital with some awesome critical care vets. We discourage raw diets because there's no research done on the benefits and frankly, the threat of salmonella is worse than any benefits. I haven't seen any animals with problems that might be linked to their raw diet so far, but most hospitals will ban the raw diet just because of the risk. You can drop off your raw food, but we will put it in the freezer and not feed it. Grain-free diets do lead to heart problems-- enlargement, failure, etc. It's such a thing that we routinely ask about diet if your pet has a heart murmur or problem on exam, especially if the referring vet doesn't make a note of any heart issues. Personally, I know that the major companies that work with vets-- Science Diet and Royal Canin-- do a lot of testing and will refund you if your pet won't eat the food. Pretty sure Iams is ok. I wouldn't trust any "raw" diets or grain-free foods unless you were tossing in some grain-free canned or treats as a supplement. A huge amount of the pets I see for gastric distress are from them eating people food or eating foreign bodies. Don't let your pets eat pizza or pork bones or hamburgers or anything that's like that. Or string, socks, chocolate, copious amounts of grass, etc. Let them eat their pet food and keep the treats to sparing and you won't spend $1400 on hospital bills.
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Otteration posted:K, you made me remember and look again, but maggots are cool too: Oh don't get me wrong, maggots are medically cool and useful, but just as I wouldn't pet a penicillium fungus, I wouldn't keep maggots as a pet.
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RoboRodent posted:An aunt of mine used to breed dogs, a type of retriever that I've just realised I probably shouldn't name because it's not super common and even if she's evil I probably shouldn't doxx her. She was a big proponent of the Barf raw food diet, and pushed it heavily on people who bought puppies from her. Data point of one, but at least one of her stud dogs died early because of heart problems related to the diet. Despite this, she has (had?) business cards calling herself a "canine nutritionist." It used to be "canine dietician" and then mysteriously changed so dad and I wondered if she got a warning for using a protected term. All her education came from Google. That could easily be the woman we got our (uncommon breed) dog from, in <province>. She retired after our litter and was very adamant about raw food. But more likely there’s just enough whackos these days that it would ring a bell with lots of dog owners.
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RudeCat posted:Oh, is that how it works? I always assumed that they had to be monitored and taken away. That's really cool. Depends on the kind of maggot you use. There are maggots that will eat either fresh or rotten meat. You can use them to debride wounds but those ones you have to monitor and get rid of before they start eating the not dead flesh. Of course there are in fact maggots that only eat not dead flesh so you very much don't want to use those. As an aside because nature is nature there are also maggots that feed exclusively on other maggots. Incidentally this is why forensic entomology exists; you can tell about how long something has been dead down to the hour by looking at what is currently eating it. There are things that start gathering whenever they notice something dying so they can lay their eggs pretty much as soon as it stops moving while there are other things that wait until the corpse is almost gone to dive into the leftovers. ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 12:13 on Apr 26, 2019 |
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Uppa posted:That could easily be the woman we got our (uncommon breed) dog from, in <province>. She retired after our litter and was very adamant about raw food. But more likely there’s just enough whackos these days that it would ring a bell with lots of dog owners. That a Pavlov joke?
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Brawnfire posted:That a Pavlov joke? Doesn't ring a bell for me.
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A quick search says these beetles have a defense of excluding a sticky film that hardens in air, which is how they get stuck there. I wonder why the dog would try to eat them to begin with though? Accidental while eating grass?
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:A quick search says these beetles have a defense of excluding a sticky film that hardens in air, which is how they get stuck there. I wonder why the dog would try to eat them to begin with though? Accidental while eating grass? Dogs are absolutely not above eating bugs
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:A quick search says these beetles have a defense of excluding a sticky film that hardens in air, which is how they get stuck there. I wonder why the dog would try to eat them to begin with though? Accidental while eating grass? That film gets absolutely loving everywhere btw
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Dogs will eat their own poo poo, vomit it up and then try to eat the vomit. Bugs are a step up.
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pik_d posted:Dogs are absolutely not above eating bugs My pugtzu tries to eat lizards. I saw him catch a moth midair once. He would absolutely eat beetles given a chance. pop fly to McGillicutty has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Apr 26, 2019 |
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Randaconda posted:what is a josh allen, and should i be happy I dunno but I bet it's spooky
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pik_d posted:I dunno but I bet it's spooky god drat it, wrong thread
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Randaconda posted:god drat it, wrong thread Maybe it was the right thread but the wrong question.
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Ariong posted:I think it’s equally cool and crazy that maggots have developed so far into the niche of eating rotten meat that not only will they not eat fresh meat, but they have honed a razor sharp instinct for which meat is fresh and which is rotten specifically so they never accidentally eat fresh meat. As with most pathogenic organisms, it's kind of unhealthy for your offspring if they kill off their hosts before they can produce their own offspring. Not aware of any maggots that eat living tissue, but if there are any, they're probably rare. Would not keep maggots as pets, but if there are any people that do, they too are probably rare. Don't remember the exact history, but the common cold may have started off as thoroughly fatal, but evolved into one of huge genetic successes* after it stopped killing it's hosts. Hoping time will do the same to ebola, HIV, and the various super bacteria if we don't figure them out first.  *Corn may be the hugeist easy genetic success to track, BTW, by far (note how it doesn't kill it's host!). (Besides e coli, and all our other happy gut friends.)
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Creepy E Coli contribution: https://www.giantmicrobes.com/fr/products/ecoli.html My gut hurts.
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pik_d posted:Dogs are absolutely not above eating bugs More than that, my dog goes right for any bugs he sees. My cat too.
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