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Got Rocket's x-rays today. In case y'all ever wondered what severe bilateral hip dysplasia in canines looks like, here you go. The top one is normal for comparison. You can see in the bottom left how there is no joint at all - the femur is "floating" and the hip socket is almost flat. It's slightly more concave on the right but still relatively flat. The heads of both femurs are also deformed, although that's harder to tell if you don't usually look at x-rays of dog femurs. The good news is that he really doesn't seem like he knows anything is wrong. Still just being a giant puppy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Someone put a bunch of headlines side by side to show how differently the press treat Kate and Meghan on the same subjects. A couple of these are meh but some are crazy. The flower one and the avocado one are the worst, I think. Avocado: vs Flowers: vs

Good old small world of southeast TX. I'm 38 and I don't ever remember an evacuation like this one due to plant explosion concerns. I think there was also concern of a possible chain reaction happening, because there are so many plants so close to each other.

Friend of my dad's just sent him these pics of the plant. I'm not super familiar with plant components but I thought some of you might appreciate them.

LOL I didn't mean Sarah is his mom, just that if we're going on looks alone he does look very much like members of her family. Recessive genes and whatnot.

I've heard that before but IMO Harry looks just like Diana's sister Sarah.

Heavy rain and thunder/lightning in Milwood but nothing too crazy.

He is - he has HRH in his title. He is not in the direct line of succession, though. All of Will and Kate's kids would have to die before he would ascend. Assuming Elizabeth ever dies.

Look, I'm sure she's acted snotty to someone at some point but using the Sun as your source of evidence for proving someone's character is ridiculous. Of course every tabloid out there is going to make drama. "Harry's wife is amazing!" is not a headline that sells. Besides all this, most of y'all are acting like this whole thing was Meghan's idea when even a cursory glance through the tubes shows that Harry has never been completely on board with living the life of a royal. He didn't ask for it, and for everyone's comments about how she needs to deal because she knew what she was getting into, Harry didn't. The heir and the spare, and all that. Being with an American gives him a perfect excuse to back out of some of the limelight. I don't know, I just can't get up in arms about someone wanting to do their own thing and leave the family business. And to that point, to those saying you can't be a duke part-time, it would be SO MUCH WORSE if they actually gave up their titles. Ever since Diana, the British monarchy has been slowly moving away from tradition. This whole thing looks to me like another example of that.

Seriously, where are you seeing what a horrible person she is everyone she sees as beneath her?

KXAN is showing that the really bad stuff isn't supposed to get into Austin till after dinner, maybe 7 pm.

How does any of this make her an insufferable cunt?

AISD just cancelled all after-school activities, including after-care. Yikes.

Jesus. I know we joke about celebrities, but an "insufferable cunt who hasn't earned and doesn't deserve her wealth"? Why do you think this? I mean, she's no Oscar winner but she's worth about $5M on her own from various acting gigs. She was raised by a single mom and has a degree from Northwestern. She's spoken out for years (much longer than she's been with Harry and well before she was famous) about gender equality and women's rights - look at this article about how she was profiled on a kids' news channel as a child. Along with their standard vitriolic treatment of celebrities they don't like, the British tabloid press has been unabashedly racist in much of their coverage of her. Look at this Daily Mail article as one example, from when they had just started dating. I mean, this is just the headline: Just looking at this thread there's a lot of evidence why their decision to step back and spend half their time in North America isn't just to be celebrities here. Her mom lives here and they have a baby who, I'm guessing, they don't want raised where all he's going to hear is how his mom is a money-grubbing whore who only cares about wealth and fame.

Hasn't slowed him down much yet. "Edgar. I have a ball. Edgar. EDGAR." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hope she feels better soon. I will be hitting y'all up for long-term surgical recovery tips here shortly.

Lol I was going to say he bats for the other team.

This may be the craziest thing I've ever posted but hear me out: Maybe her looks aren't the only thing he's interested in.

This sweet boy, Rocket, had x-rays today. The vet said he has "the worst case of hip dysplasia" she's ever seen. On one side, the ball of his femur is only barely in the hip socket, and on the other, the hip socket isn't formed like it should be. Or something along those lines. He just turned one at the end of November and this is about the age they usually diagnose it. We knew it was a possibility but I was not expecting it to be this bad. The better news is that he can live a pretty normal life if he has major hip surgery. We are consulting with a vet orthopedic surgeon next week to figure it out. And besides walking janky and being slow to stand up, he's acting normal. She said they get used to the pain since it's normal to them, which I guess is a good thing but is still sad. He does have pain meds now. Cross your fingers that our pet insurance helps with the cost. The policy doesn't specifically exclude hip dysplasia and doesn't have a waiting period, but I'm worried they'll find some loophole to get out of it. Either way we'll do surgery if that's what the doc recommends. I've spent money on much less worthy causes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My favorite part is how Buckingham Palace had no idea. I'm pretty sure "the Palace is understood to be disappointed" is the British way of saying "The Queen is going to put out a hit on Meghan and then shit on her grave." I don't follow the royals closely but even at a glance it's obvious that the British press has been brutal to her, and it's gotten even worse since this announcement. Who can blame them for wanting to back out of the limelight? And it's not like they are giving up their titles or anything. They're still going to do stuff for the queen; just not as much. Everyone across the pond needs to take it down a notch.

I know this is beside the point but I really hate that news outlets distribute stuff that's unconfirmed. Especially in situations like this. And I understand why they feel they have to (sometimes) but it just muddies everything up. Anyway. I'm going to go read the dog thread now and try not to think about all this.

KXAN may not always put the unit in their charts but they specify it in their writeups. This is from today.

Well, misery loves company, so we can all suffer together.

Yep, that's the one.

Baby Vicks is good stuff. Also, check out the Nosefrida for clearing his nose. It's far better than the bulb suction thing. For adults, if y'all haven't used the Puffs tissues that have Vicks in them, definitely get some. They are a godsend.