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[SimRobert2001]

One of the family cats who has more-or-less self tamed in the past year has gotten calm enough to join people on their beds. Sadly, he also does not appear to understand the term "personal space" which is bad for two reasons.

 First, he is rather grabby. As in, "you scratch me so I must preform industrial-scale acupuncture on you".
 Second, he has some form of illness or something that causes him to drool a fair amount (noone seems to know what it is and we cant ask the local vet because they want to kill him off for some reason, and no reliable access to vehicles to ask other vets) And as my mother is A) a christian scientist and B) rather cheap, aswell as being the only person who will drive about who has time to drive about, oh, and quite possibly insane to a degree... well, vehicular access is unlikley to increase for a while...

That is because drooling and personality changes are two signs of rabies.
http://m.petmd.com/cat/conditions/neurological/c_ct_rabies

The drooling is caused by the paralytic form. He/she cant hold tbeir moth shut anymore, so they drool. Get it to a cet, and ask a doctor if scratches count as exposure. NOW.

[Eric Blank]

Phobia of water is also a common symptom as I understand it. This cat has been going on for "the past year" which is a long time for an animal that is constantly dehydrated because its drooling everywhere and afraid to drink anything. It is also apparently lovable as hell, which implies its not insane and trying to murder anything that looks at it.

My bet would be an infection in its gums/jaw resulting in the drooling. That's pretty common for cats, and what prompted us to have Petri put down recently.

[SimRobert2001]

Phobia of water is also a common symptom as I understand it. This cat has been going on for "the past year" which is a long time for an animal that is constantly dehydrated because its drooling everywhere and afraid to drink anything. It is also apparently lovable as hell, which implies its not insane and trying to murder anything that looks at it.

My bet would be an infection in its gums/jaw resulting in the drooling. That's pretty common for cats, and what prompted us to have Petri put down recently.

Phobia of water is also a symptom in humans. That symptom may be why he is dehydrated. Insanity is only one set of symptoms. You cat seems to have the other set.

[Aseaheru]

 Nah, its not rabies. They wanted to kill him about a year ago when we got him neutered.

 Also, the affected area is more of left nostril/eye.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The fear of water is because rabies causes throat swelling that makes drinking both painful and a choking risk.

I'd ponder if they wanted to kill him because of rabies, but no vet worth their salt would ever allow someone to take back a clearly rabid animal, so it's probably not rabies.

[i2amroy]

Been playing Mugen Souls on steam; there is something very much WTF'y and hilarious at the same time about a game where your main character's plan for dealing with anything is to seduce whatever is causing her the problem until it stops.
Annoying hero or villain in the road? Seduce them!
Not have enough money for the ferry? Seduce the continent and order it to move and connect with the other one.
Force field in the road? Seduce it!

It's hilarious, but yeah, very much a WTF.

[Emma]

Why's that a WTF? If I could literally seduce continents I'd be seducing everything I could see.

[Sirus]

Armed civilians take over a federal building in Oregon.

Oh boy.

[Eric Blank]

And this is why we aren't allowed to have amazing powers of seduction.

...I would totes seduce all the things too. Just because.

What the flying shit!?

[EnigmaticHat]

Armed civilians take over a federal building in Oregon.

Oh boy.

First line "Armed anti-government protesters have taken over a building" (emphasis mine)

Link partway through article:  "OPINION: Face it, the Oregon building takeover is terrorism."

CNN: saying the things CNN wouldn't dare to say.

[scriver]

It's already the topic of the American politics thread. We don't have to spread it to every single thread on the forum.

[Putnam]

okay for some idiotic reason I started trying to figure out a gameplay theme for an undertale mod I'm never making

anyway here's me trying to figure out a gameplay theme for an undertale mod i'm never making

[Yoink]

It's already the topic of the American politics thread. We don't have to spread it to every single thread on the forum.

I can't even see the American politics thread in GD, though.
Oh well, not much to say about the topic except "it's pretty cool" anyway.

[Yoink]

You should call up some local delivery service, have someone speed around to all those places and bring food to your house.
Or you could just order a pizza delivered to the cafe and then walk over there, picking up some KFC on the way for a feast.

[Putnam]

Throat swelling

Why

Last time this happened i had just learned i was allergic to walnuts, but definitely no walnuts today