just ran across this perfect 2000-year-old portrait of a pet who knows what he did.
"Dog Mosaic," Ptolemaic period, 2nd century BCE, floor of a house in Alexandria, Egypt. 3.25x3.25m. (Pitcher is probably gold.)
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Pals with endometriosis, please tell me some of your symptoms because I think my doctor is incompetent.
She told me endometriosis meant extreme pain in the days before a period - I've had extreme, nauseating, on-the-floor-screaming, difficulty-breathing pains during my period and once around ovulation. And yes painkillers do not work.
Edit: read the updates on my tumblr. I had an endo cyst the size of a tennisball. It is gone now and I am all healed up.
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Thank you for bringing up the CDC changes. I had no idea. I’m on the southern border and drive across to Mexico for errands, family, travel … I cross around 10x per year. Sometimes I bring my dogs. I also have transported rescue animals to vets across the border. We bring rabies vaccine proof but documentation is never requested by border authorities. One time when I had puppies they just asked how many puppies, I guess 3 was okay. To go from that to these new policies is very surprising, even hard to believe. I can’t imagine they were thinking of our border culture when they made these decisions. It’s a privilege to travel freely and benefit from the exchange rate in MX. I’m concerned how this all plays out and what it means for us. I’ll try calling the representatives and doing the petition, thanks for that.
It's absolutely my pleasure to talk about these things and I'm glad you found my posts beneficial in some way. There has been ZERO consideration for the cross border culture that is established at both of the United State's shared borders and especially zero consideration for the Canadians and Mexicans that cross into the United States on a frequent and legal basis to spend money in our economy etc. AND the people living in enclave communities that have to cross just to go to work, groceries, etc. I know people that live in the United States and have vets in Canada, which they now cannot bring their puppies to. Sometimes this is the closest vet to some rural communities.
I have the exact same experience you have in that border patrol has not once, not ever asked to look at my extensive paperwork. I keep a three ring binder for each dog with their entire medical history and they constantly tell me that it is unneeded. When I did the containment agreement with Sigurd as a puppy I was so nervous that I didn't have all my paperwork in order (I did) and that they wouldn't let me cross with him. They didn't even look at my CDC issued containment agreement paperwork, didn't even make issue with the fact it was a puppy too young for a rabies vaccine. It seems silly to think they wouldn't try actually educating and requiring border control to ask for these things and be a bit more strict with what's coming in before moving to such an extreme as we see now.
From what I saw from the draft of the "why we did this" that went around the reasoning they say they are making these rules blanketed across all countries with no nuance is to "streamline" things. To me it is flat out lazy to do this, reads as they don't feel like training border control on how to work with any sort of nuance in regards to CDC regulations. It's ridiculous. It also reads like they don't want to actual try and curb retail rescues falsifying paperwork and bringing in diseased dogs beyond these sort of over arching regulations. There's a lot that can be done, but doing what they've done is not the way. The rescues falsifying paperwork will still do so unless true action and consequences are given.
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I'm doing a continuation of this. A horny continuation.
He settles one of the pillows at the small of his back, then the other vertically along the side of the bed. Under Mihawk’s incredulous scrutiny, he settles back and pats his lap.
“Come here”.
Mihawk continues staring at him. It’s kind of funny, the squeamish look with the raging hard on. Shanks bites his tongue, keeping in check the smile threatening to spill on his lips.
“What”.
“That can’t possibly be comfortable”.
“This can hardly cause any scar on my back I’d be ashamed of”, he jokes, tugging lightly on Mihawk’s ankle. “Come on”.
Mihawk’s a taut line of tension when he straddles Shanks’ lap. He wonders how the other envisioned this going on, because he has clearly not planned this far ahead. Or maybe he did plan it, and Shanks’ just not reading correctly how to pick up the initiative from him.
He settles his hands on the small of Mihawks’ back, fingers splayed over his ass, and tries to think about the night on the beach. When the other slides a bit closer, small and a tad doubtful, he pulls him flush against him, capturing Mihawk’s moan into a kiss.
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Lost’s Zelda has a scar across her nose that Link gave her and afterwards it’s like an endless reminder for him of how he hurt her
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