Giant sponge-filled syringe for plugging shotgun wounds

i raise you a even less bleeding Goldie Hawn:

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The radioopaque markers are made of a proprietary blend of adrenaline, meth, and tungsten powder…

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Um, as a guy who a few weeks ago had to rush his cat over to the vet in the middle of the day because he had a severe stroke, I have to ask- what the hell is wrong with a facility to treat pets?

If the argument is that we shouldn’t put animals through hugely painful and expensive treatment that they can’t understand, I get it. Otherwise, I need an explanation.

(The cat in question, Boo, is now playing on that big farm with the tuna and the mice in my imagination. Sniff.)

Stanch. Staaaaanch. Stanch!

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I can’t speak for the original commenter, but I’m a little baffled by the specificity of “cat hospital”
I’ve never seen anything that species specific. I’ve seen veterinary hospitals, and I’ve taken my dog to the veterinary emergency room (he thought it would be fun to eat a bunch of fly agaric mushrooms).

Why are cats so special they need their own hospital to the exclusion of dogs and other pet species? Honest question, not meaning to be offensive. I just thought that veterinarians usually had medical expertise for at least both canines and felines, plus other species.

You ever taken a sick cat into a room with dogs before?

I’m not saying I need a cat hospital (my vet does everything). But I understand.

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A cat-specific hospital means there is no need to worry about separating the species, and enables the vet to become a specialist.

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Good point.

The ER where I took my mushroom eating dog had several enterances. One general, and a couple off to either side, one for dogs and the other for cats. They had partitions between the three areas as well. It was a nice place. They had a whole 4 story building that used to be a human doctor’s office before the great recession.

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“You know, for kids!”

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We carried “Tampons” for years to perform the same trick. Not a new concept really.

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Ha, I thought bryan’s post said “Cat Hospital” because I have the xkcd substitutions extension. I thought he must have meant “Car Hospital”, which would be far more Murican.

Sorry to hear about Boo.

But I said “should not need to exist” as in, it makes me sad to know that any cat ever needs the services of a cat hospital. My cat has had two fairly major operations (five days apart, too; was a hell of a week for both of us) and has also been to an emergency vet clinic in the middle of the night. So I am glad those services were available to us, but I wish there was never any demand for such things.

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Thanks.

In his last week, he wandered the house one night. We had switched him to straight tuna in an effort to get his weight back up (vet approved, since he was also eating dry food but had still lost a lot of weight from diabetes). We were out of tuna that day and had given him regular “tuna” cat food. He looked EVERYWHERE for the tuna- under the sink, in the pantry area in the kitchen, in the living room, in the bathtub, even in the toilet (I guess since water is related to sea, he figured the tuna would hop out of the toilet). It got so funny that my wife had to run out at midnight to the all-night pharmacy just to get him some tuna as a thanks for the comedy routine.

Great lap cat, great mouser, friendly as hell. I miss him, but I’m glad we had him.

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He was a close second.

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