It is so dangerous for dogs to ride in the back of a pickup truck.

Sososososo dangerous.

I've been doing emergency veterinary work for almost a decade and I have seen dozens of dogs with injuries from this very thing. Dogs who get tossed from the back of a truck in an accident, or when an owner needs to swerve or brake quickly to avoid an accident. Dogs who randomly decide to leap out of the truck. "But he's never done that before!" Well, he did that today.

Injuries have ranged from full body road rash to spinal fractures and a dog who broke a rib that punctured his lung, requiring emergency surgery and weeks of hospitalization. Oh my god, so many broken legs. Some we could fix, some we couldn't and they lost the limb. And there were more than a few head traumas that resulted in death.

Yes, doggie goggles are cute, but this situation is not. Don't put dogs in the back of your truck. Not if you claim to love them. Not if you want them to make it to your destination in one piece. I don't care how much they like it back there, and I don't care how good a driver you think you are. It doesn't matter.

A couple weeks ago, my wife spotted a roadkill squirrel in our neighborhood. Her initial reaction was fox squirrel – but then she doubled back and said ground squirrel, because fox squirrels, simply put, aren’t found where we live.

I went to retrieve it and – surprise! – it was indeed a fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), the first I’ve ever seen in our region of the Upper Peninsula! He was pretty banged up, his head crushed and his intestines and testes spilled out of his body. Nevertheless, I skinned him out and froze the pelt, because I knew that this find was of scientific importance.

Pride Poster Series

Gay, Bi, Pan, Ace, Aro, and Trans information posters. Feel free to print and use anywhere, but keep the URL caption at the bottom of the page.

So I found this caterpillar on my way to class

i made him a tube room

im going to sleep, chicken nugget is snoozin and ill check up on him as soon as i wake up

hope he doesnt party too hard 

POST-MORTEM [aka POSTMORTEM / POST MORTEM]

[adjective]

1. of, pertaining to, or occurring in the time following death: Latin – “after death.”

2. of or pertaining to examination of the body after death.

3. occurring after the end of something; after the event.

[noun]

4. Medicine/Medical: a post-mortem examination; autopsy.

5. an evaluation or discussion occurring after the end or fact of something.

6. Cards: a discussion of the bidding or playing of a previous hand.

Etymology: from Latin post ‎(“afterwards”) + mortem, from mors ‎(“death”).