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Arrgh!BillTre said:
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Both are such powerful animals. I'd be hesitant to get too close to them while treating them, but I'm only used to treating humans. I do have one amusing dog treatment story from an event out in the hills in a ravine, but won't share it now.BillTre said:
How does your vet friend deal with examining and treating such powerful animals?
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I don't know that exactly, but both are intelligent animals and the vet and animals will be familiar each other and behavioral expectations. Some animals have been trained to calmly submit to injections. Depending on the individuals involved you could always trank them first (like big predators).
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That's me. Every jab over the last 2 years has led the nurse to ask me to stop tensing.berkeman said:Sounds like my wife (she hates shots), but she still asks every time for the smallest gauge needle available.
The word "scratch" does not cover an injection btw, we the public are not fooled.
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I've had soooo many injections over the years since early childhood. Has no one told about the technique of taking a deep breath, looking away and then breathing out slowly and deliberately as the needle goes in? I find that decreases the unpleasantness. Looking at it (like kids often do instinctively) is a bad idea.pinball1970 said:
If it's an intravenous injection, then it helps if you down a large quantity of water 15-20 mins beforehand so that the nurse can find the vein more easily. Being dehydrated is just asking for torment.
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For me the worst actually is, as they try to console and encourage me.pinball1970 said:
Dentists are the same, BTW.
I DO know that it's not really a big deal (any thorny bush I cross during a hike do absolutely worse), but I just don't like it and that's it.
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From a dialogue I had the misfortune to overhear when a haemophiliac boy, maybe 8-10 yrs old, needed to get an injection of clotting factor,...berkeman said:Little kids and Medics. I like to watch their technique.
"Oh, F**k off! Get that thing away from me! Oh, geez you're a c*nt! ..." On and on. He had no conception that the doctor was genuinely trying to help him, and if he didn't get that injection he'd develop a serious bad hematoma which hurts like hell for weeks on end. I felt like I wanted to slap the kid, but,... you can't slap a haemophiliac without doing more harm... 
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Stripes and rows of dots are slight modifications of an underlying patterning mechanism.berkeman said:
https://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/de/...tern-formation/stripe-formation-in-zebrafish/
The color pattern might change as the little guy matures.
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Hey kid! Who's your daddy??berkeman said:
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Or, maybe say it, who's your dotty?strangerep said:
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How many chromosomes do whale sharks have?
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The diploid chromosome number of this species was found to be 102, which included 16 metacentric or submetacentric, 4 subtelocentric and 82 acrocentric chromosomes (Fig. 3a, Supplementary Fig.Nov 6, 2020fresh_42 said:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01373-7
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When assembling his hive, a beekeeper forgot to mount the frame for the honeycomb and so the bees were free to fill the space according to their own ideas and this structure was created that optimizes the air flow.
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Amazingly cool!BillTre said: