Dont Forget About The Pets!

Don’t Forget About The Pets!

For obvious reasons, my blog focuses on human pain, but animal pain matters too. Maybe you don’t have to worry about your cat having a heroin habit, but they suffer in silence. Showing weakness can get them killed in the wild, and they can’t tell you how much pain they’re in. Because of that you have to pay attention and regular check on your animal.

4 years ago I had a cat named Bella pass away this month after 8 wonderful years. She developed a bunch of medical issues in the last year, all culminating in cancer diagnosis. I often beat myself up inside as I continue to teach myself about cat behavior. There were signs I missed. Would it have made a difference? Not with the cancer; it took her fast, but she probably wouldn’t have suffered longer with the other conditions had I been more aware that her normal than usual lethargy is a sign of pain in cats.

If you have a pet of any kind, look up the signs of sickness and pain in your animals. It can be different and subtle depending on the species, but we need to remember that our pets can’t tells us they’re in pain. They don’t deserve to suffer in pain any less than we do.

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Just to expand on this post about calling 911 and asking for a pizza to secretly ask for help:

The post is based on a Super Bowl commercial, which itself was based on a Reddit post that’s never been verified as true. 

There is no actual pizza code with toppings and shit that dispatchers are trained in. If you come across someone who has heard of the commercial, they might understand. If you come across someone who’s never heard of it, they might think it’s a prank call and hang up on you.

A piece of actual advice to help you in this situation is to dial 911, then hang up without speaking, then turn the phone off. 911 will attempt to call you back, and when they’re unable to reach you, they’ll dispatch a unit to your location under the assumption that you need help and your call was interrupted. This will work 100% of the time, whereas the pizza trick will only work if the dispatcher has heard of the commercial/urban legend.

Also, the toppings thing was a complete and total fabrication and whoever wrote that should be ashamed of themselves, tbh.

being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think you’re exaggerating and/or lying