For a birthday dinner, my grandparents are taking me to a nice steak restaurant.

Anyone have suggestions for how I should have the steak cooked?
 

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Here's a Warcraft question for you Warcraftophiles: why is it that orcs are like 3 times the size of men, but they seem to hit the same? Besides "it keeps the game balanced", I mean.
 

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Here's a Warcraft question for you Warcraftophiles: why is it that orcs are like 3 times the size of men, but they seem to hit the same? Besides "it keeps the game balanced", I mean.
It's not all muscle?
Difference in armor/weapon quality?
 
Here's a Warcraft question for you Warcraftophiles: why is it that orcs are like 3 times the size of men, but they seem to hit the same? Besides "it keeps the game balanced", I mean.
While humans are made of muscle and bone and gristle, the largest part of an orc's body tissues are actually made of balloon animals.
 
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One of our cats became extremely itchy (pruritus) as she grew up, resulting in severe scratching and over-grooming (cleanest asshole NA). We're still riding the new-therapy-of-the-month carousel at the vet, and so far nothing has worked, other than regular steroid injections, which is bad for her long-term health.

Anyway, her itching was pretty horrid a few weeks ago, and some of her face wounds got infected. As a result, the recent steroid shot did zilch to stop the itching, and she tore up her face even more. She's now wearing a cone (hates it), and has to take an antibiotic daily. She won't eat/drink/keep down liquid medicine, and isn't tricked by pill pockets, so I resorted to the treat-treat-PILL-treat method using a pill gun (looks close to the one we have), and it's by far the easiest method I've ever found. For how cheap they are (free if your vet is like mine), consider getting one if you ever have to give your cat pills.

Basically looks like this:



But with a cat who wants to flay herself.
 
Never had a problem with cats and pills, but I'm not afraid to push 'em down too far to spit 'em back out again, either.
Nausea is a different problem.

--Patrick
 
I had to feed a cat three pills a day. He would be fairly patient about letting me shove them done his throat, if I was quick about it . . . so uh, yeah, not so much patient as momentarily tolerant.




I miss the cute, fluffy guy :(
 
One of our cats became extremely itchy (pruritus) as she grew up, resulting in severe scratching and over-grooming (cleanest asshole NA). We're still riding the new-therapy-of-the-month carousel at the vet, and so far nothing has worked, other than regular steroid injections, which is bad for her long-term health.

Anyway, her itching was pretty horrid a few weeks ago, and some of her face wounds got infected. As a result, the recent steroid shot did zilch to stop the itching, and she tore up her face even more. She's now wearing a cone (hates it), and has to take an antibiotic daily. She won't eat/drink/keep down liquid medicine, and isn't tricked by pill pockets, so I resorted to the treat-treat-PILL-treat method using a pill gun (looks close to the one we have), and it's by far the easiest method I've ever found. For how cheap they are (free if your vet is like mine), consider getting one if you ever have to give your cat pills.

Basically looks like this:



But with a cat who wants to flay herself.
Have you guys tried check out allergies with the cat? Our oldest Pug actually has a grass allergy to certain types of grasses, we did a few tests to find out what he was allergic to and got lucky when we moved that the newer place didn't have the same type grass as the original place.
 

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Yeah, we had a cat that developed itchiness to the point she scratched her skin off under her neck. Turned out to be a flea allergy. Even though wer had exterminators and she had spot treatment, they still can make contact. Some antibiotics and an antihistamine helped a lot.
 
Have you guys tried check out allergies with the cat? Our oldest Pug actually has a grass allergy to certain types of grasses, we did a few tests to find out what he was allergic to and got lucky when we moved that the newer place didn't have the same type grass as the original place.
We haven't done medical tests on it because we couldn't afford the costs quoted by the local vets (at the time). She's completely indoors and the condition is essentially a constant year-round. We're looking into it again once she recovers from the infection, now that we can afford healthcare for humans and pets. Our two vets have pondered whether she might be allergic to human dander or dust mites, in which case we're sorta fucked there.

Yeah, we had a cat that developed itchiness to the point she scratched her skin off under her neck. Turned out to be a flea allergy. Even though wer had exterminators and she had spot treatment, they still can make contact. Some antibiotics and an antihistamine helped a lot.
Yeah, that and food allergies were the two biggest suspects, but neither has panned out. We have both our cats on selamectin as a general precaution, and never found fleas/eggs/nada. That said, neither vet has brought up the possibility of trying oral antihistamines, and it sounds like a decent idea, so I'll ask about it next time.
 
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