Aroace And In Your Face

Today’s The Only Day You Can Reblog This

me and grace went for a walk in the rain this morning and when i was drying her off she looked pretty so:

billi want food

okay but this method of teaching dogs and cats a way of communication is frankly astounding. Watch more of billie’s videos and Hunger4Words (the creator of this sytem) and it’s pretty stunning. yes, there’s a lot of wishful thinking because cats and dogs don’t have quite as complex brains when it comes to language, but the fact remains these animals are a rudimentary form of bilingual. they have their own language (body/scents/vocal) and now they’ve learned to use a very basic form of our language. i’ve seen so many people, linguists even, dismiss that this is just more complex reward association but i mean. dogs have been with us for about 32 thousand years. they’ve evolved alongside us for that long. they are honed in on us. hell, even cats have been our close companions for at least 8 thousand years. that is more than enough time for either one of them to grasp the very basic concepts of our words (especially considering cats literally talk/meow because we talk. that is not a normal thing they do when wild/feral).

I was upset to hear that Chadwick Boseman passed away, and I was shocked that he was undergoing colon cancer treatments while doing the best work of his career. It reminded me that rates of colon cancer in patients under 50 are increasing, and there are racial disparities in both the number of patients and their survival rates. Doctors recommend that Black patients get screened at 45 instead of 50 in part due to genetic factors that make colon cancer more aggressive. Plus, symptoms of colon cancer like changes in bowel habits and stomach pain mimic other GI disorders like IBS, so doctors are less likely to screen patients under 50 with these symptoms.