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  • Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

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  • I believe it gets a bit trickier because you can use your right to remain silent? They also can’t physically force you to speak the password but they can restrain you and unlock your phone by force.

  • The cat office, Naha

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  • Is it safe?

  • Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?

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  • Maybe being a lizard is the change in lifestyle you need

  • Had no idea Sandy was a paint!

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  • I love seeing the updates about Sandy living her best life, looks like you’re doing a great job with her.

  • Fat kitten

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  • I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s as much a decision as it is for many humans. There is some evidence that, for some actions, what we think of as choices may just be retroactive mental explanations for bodily urges which we are in the process of initiating before we get the conscious “idea” to do so.

    But individual tendencies and habits formed earlier in life are definitely contributors as well. Both my cats free feed and are lean, but both were raised on scheduled individual feedings for years before I adopted them.

  • idk if this is real tbh

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  • No satisfying answer there

  • Why Canada's food inspection agency won't do interviews as avian flu outbreak in Ontario grows

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  • What? What do you mean?

  • Pope Leo XIV celebrates cinema with Hollywood stars and urges inclusion of marginal voices

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  • At the manor

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    Was Hitler wrong at least on the Jew part?

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  • Israel the country is doing evil. So is America the country, for that matter. Jewish people are not.

  • My cat desperately wants to remover her own face. How do I stop that?

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  • Poultry is a common allergen so try a diet that’s fish based or one of the special ones like rabbit. It can take weeks to see improvement from diet change tho.

  • And still beautiful

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  • Yeah, not great. Luckily it looks like the cross turns out to have a normal muzzle at least, and I think most munchkins do okay. Pure persians and Scottish folds are the real crime in my opinion, poor Scottish folds, horrible joint problems just because humans must have slightly bent ears :(

  • And still beautiful

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  • WACK.

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  • Or stock it with some small fish to eat the larvae, and plants to keep the water clean, and invite some frogs and dragonflies, maybe some mink or herons to keep the frogs and fish in check

  • Ontario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier says

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  • Research into building synthetic human bodies would be illegal if you weren’t allowed to test on animals first as the legislation currently stands. The laws on human medical trials often mandate this kind of testing. New vaccines, for example, must be tested on animals (primates) before they are approved by Public Health Agency of Canada. Whether or not that is correct or useful or justified is definitely up for debate, but we would not be able to pursue or utilize any of these advancements or medicines without first changing the regulations. That’s the place to start, for sure.

  • Ontario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier says

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  • Also, if you are passionate and interested in this kind of thing, consider reaching out to a local institutional Animal Care Committee to see if they have a spot open for a community member! You’d have to sign a confidentiality agreement at this point in time but maybe you would find something like that very interesting. Many institutions have a stipend for the time spent attending meetings and stuff, it can be quite a time sink for just a volunteer position.

  • Ontario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier says

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  • I absolutely agree. There is a push for more openness and transparency in animal research, it is a major initiative of the CCAC for rollout over the next 5 years. There is a lot of fear of animal rights activist groups and litigation or harassment from them that I think is generally unfounded - those incidents are pretty rare. Unfortunately, situations like this with Doug Ford only stoke the fear and protectionist attitudes that need to be broken down… now people in this field feel more targeted and scared and less likely to speak to the public. It’s very counterproductive.

    https://ccac.ca/en/animals-used-in-science/transparency/institutional-transparency.html

  • Ontario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier says

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  • Dogs are a particularly useful model for heart problems in humans because they naturally get several of the same conditions and diseases humans do. You can try to create genetic variants of mice to have these conditions but it’s not nearly as good as a species that naturally experiences the condition. You may waste hundreds of mouse lives for poor quality research that way.

    All studies involving animals require ethical approval involving a detailed assessment of the protocol by a committee that must include veterinarians, managers of the facility (not the lab members but outside of the research team), technicians who work directly with the animals, other researchers doing unrelated work, and a community member otherwise uninvolved in research at all. This is just for the ethical approval, they will also have to go through scientific merit evaluation by a different committee before this step. They must lay out exactly what they are doing and why it is necessary and how they are mitigating pain and distress. They may be under anesthesia for the entire heart attack, and then euthanized without waking up, or receive painkillers and be monitored constantly by a veterinarian. If they don’t do this, the work wont happen, and results wont be publishable either. Without being at that meeting we can’t know the exact technical justification, but there is a very strict process to follow and often everyone has more feelings about it when they are companion animals and they receive a lot of scrutiny.

    I’m not all for animal research, some of it is poorly done and wasteful and doesn’t have any practical use. Or the data suffers from human incompetence. But a lot of it does help humans and animals. And there is a lot more tendency to intervene on pain and distress than you’d think - a distressed animal with no pain mitigation is not a good representation for your average human receiving treatment for something at a hospital. Your average local veterinary clinic almost certainly sees far worse cases of neglect and festering horrifying injuries and disease at the hands of incompetent dog owners than a study like this would ever produce.

  • Ontario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier says

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  • Yeah not to mention animal testing isn’t just for human medical advancements… a lot of animal testing is to develop treatments for animal diseases, test new diet ingredients (after which the animals are adopted out), etc…

  • Ontario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier says

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  • There are national regulations covering animal research under the legislating body, the CCAC.