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depends on dog
some breeds will rot out no matter what you do- ie chihuahua, shih tzu, dachshunds, poms.
-the rot can be so bad it will destroy the bone in the mandible and they walk around with a broken jaw or pus trapped behind their eye
- anesthesia is a must
- prices vary wildly - i've seen from 600 for a cleaning to 3600 for 27 teeth coming out. Higher if they need the CT
-dental health affects every organ system- heart and valves with endocardiosis/endocarditis, kidneys (uti or pyelo), liver etc.
you got that right
Bread with David Gates- everything he wrote
like a time machine- I'm back in 1981 with my dad in his truck with my new matchbox trans am

re: Pitching longevity question

Posted by lsewwww on 6/13/25 at 9:37 pm to
so many ways to go with this like was said above
1. I'm not sure coaches would let Ryans delivery with the high leg kick get thru in these days. That said his delivery in the 69 world series is different than the 90s. Same with Clemens- in 86 Clemens is somewhat post like and upright, but by the late 80s he is all legs
2. in 1990 I think Verducci wrote an article in SI about durability. He correctly predicted Clemens would do OK due to his build, and also thought Saberhagen would break down and Gooden and Viola could go either way
3. I think multiple muscle motions are good for the youngsters. Throwing hay bales, swimming, splitting wood are all going to build ancilliary muscles instead of standing on a pitchers mound all day throwing at a strike zone. (like how i blew my elbow out). No one lives on a farm anymore it seems and those that do are on a tractor it seems

re: Puppy issue question

Posted by lsewwww on 4/2/25 at 11:43 am to
Its not the puppies fault- Its the chronic yeast otitis in the older dogs ears that the puppy is trying to clean out. LSU vet derm used to teach "ears and rears" for food allergies (ear and anal gland infections). Your other dog sounds like it has infected ears and the puppy is merely trying to help clean them.
and the pet food industry is a racket
Before i lived in El Cid, I lived in Canterbury Square. 1st night I think there were 7 gunshots if I remember right.

Month after that, downstairs apartment had guy come out of apartment screaming at his baby boys mama cause she locked him out. So he stomped the windshield out of her car. left in his Mustang. that happened a couple times I think

Security gate was ripped off anchors fairly regularly there

Dumbest thing I ever did was go by myself to west grant street I think to pick up like 30 tires dumped in an abandoned lot so we could put them on the bunker silo at the dairy (which had a bullet hole in the front window of the milking parlor from the same direction)

I'm sure I forgot some stuff too

re: Thermal monocular

Posted by lsewwww on 12/5/23 at 8:59 pm to
quote:

Best one is a AGM 19 Tiapan.


I dont think so. I could not tell a deer from a man or dog at 150 yards, only knew by movement. Thats what the op wanted. Surely there are some out there that blow the agm out of the water on image quality
Best acting performance he did. Sucks to be typecast
macon county line
UNSUBSTANTIATED rumor is that he had a dirtbike that was/is unaccounted for. That boat launch has railroad tracks that go right thru it. He could do several hundred miles in one night that way. FACEBOOK RUMOR FROM LOCALS THAT LIVE HERE
I hope hes dead- if he really was hearing voices I've been told you hit breaking point eventually

But I keep thinking that hes still out there. Its a harvest moon, you can see everything at night right now without light, and word is that he was a redneck so chances are hes been out at night before evading the warden service (Bowdoin is poaching hotspot). I worry he will pop up later on for a second round- I would guess in Topsham
If he went in the water by boat at the Pejepscot boat ramp, he cant go North becasue of the canal street dam and he cant go south because of the Topsham and Brunswick dams. Even Sabattus river has a dam if he tried to take a side tributary. They are speculating he changed cars there. If he did shoot himself in the river, they may never find him. Its the wettest summer in many years, we just had 2 inches of rain Sunday and the river is MOVING. He may be in the Atlantic by now if he did shoot himself. Theres been guys where people saw them go in the river on a drought year and did a 2 week search and never find them once they get past merrymeeting bay.
On a personal note, if they wanted to stop these shootings, executing them medieval style publicly after a fair trial would be a deterrent. Hanged, revived, emasculated, disemboweled, drawn, quartered then pieces sent to capitals of the New England states for display.
There was significant precedence in the military side prior to 1996- NTSB did not pull this out of their arse.Also, the AC unit near that tank had overheated the vapors. It was a accumulation of bad luck
ny times


On Dec. 10, 1993, a Wisconsin Air National Guard KC-135 blew up on the ground at Gen. Billy Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. Six maintenance personnel died.

An investigative board found "clear and convincing evidence" that an explosion in the plane's center fuel tank was triggered by sparking in a wire within the housing of a fuel pump. The electrical arc managed to enlarge a tiny vent hole in the housing, sending molten copper from the wire into the tank. Fuel vapors quickly ignited.

-- On Sept. 17, 1987, a KC-10 exploded at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Again, the cause was attributed to a fuel vapor explosion in the center fuel tank. One mechanic died.

Investigators found that fuel had leaked, and vapors probably had been ignited by arcing from a battery near the pump area for the tank.

Shortly after the incident, the Air Force ordered checks of all KC-10s and found a dozen similar leaks.

-- On July 24, 1989, at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, an Air Force B-52 bomber went up in flames, killing one person, after a refueling team mistakenly left a vent plug in the plane's center fuel tank. The plug caused too much vapor pressure to build. The tank ruptured, spilling 2,600 gallons of fuel onto the tarmac. Air Force investigators were unable to determine the ignition source.

-- On Oct. 4, 1990, an Air Force KC-135 tanker exploded during approach to Loring Air Force Base in Maine. That incident involved a rear aerial-refueling storage tank rather than the central fuel tank. Witnesses said they saw two explosions on the plane and then saw the tail section separate from the aircraft. Investigators blamed the accident, which killed all four crew members, on a fuel pump that overheated to at least 1,400 degrees.

-- In another rear-tank incident, on Sept. 20, 1989, a KC-135 assigned to the Alaska Air National Guard exploded on the ground at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. Two people died. The accident was attributed to a malfunction of a refueling pump, which set off vapors in a rear tank.

what to do about trespassers

Posted by lsewwww on 1/14/23 at 11:07 am
This started in 2015 because we had to post some land because some stray shots missed killing our neighbors by inches- 2 neighbors. People had taken advantage of my elderly father when my brothers and I were at school. When I got back it was obvious what was going on because the fences for the cattle were cut in multiple places, alot of old tubs for waterers had been stolen and lots of shots at 1am, etc. Slowly I've confronted people, was respectful at first, never called police or warden but its deteriorated to where a baseball bat was used in 2019 and Sunday the pistol came out.These guys dont seem to care. They wont mess with me to my face, they just run.
I'm not getting any help
from police or warden service, even when I get plates.
This is nuts.
i've got 3 k in cameras up and they dont care since no charges are being filed. They harassed my parents one night 2 weeks before my father died- came in twice that night doing burnouts and I had to go out and they were in the car parked in front of the house and I had them at gunpoint. They finally backed down, but didnt learn. I can see this going very badly for me in the future





re: Money Talk Fav. Zomedica

Posted by lsewwww on 1/7/23 at 7:40 pm to
Analysts are wrong. Yesterdays run was based on report of release of shockwave technology. Big frickin deal- 90% of vet clinics are already equipped with therapeutic laser. Zomedica is grasping for a foothold in a saturated market. still a scam, though it did get attention of people that should know better. I had a fiduciary message me about it yesterday
Yeah Maine is not bad.
I've been at UMaine, Plattsburgh state, Cornell, UArizona, LSU, Lousiana Tech and NMSU. Maine's only problem was a bunch of scholarship football kids from New Jersey started a theft ring- they would steal from their own team-mates- and did- while I was there. NMSU and LSU or U of A are light years worse. My original vote was Upenn- our optho resident got mugged 3 times in 3 years while there and know other people whose apartments were broken into or cars stolen
MacArthur should got his moneys worth getting off the phillipines. Quite the story. The lead boat LTCDR was quite the guy

I'd love to have a boat with one packard V12, let alone 3. quite the hotrod.
I dotn agree with Kennedy being court marshalled. His actions before the crash are debatable, but his actions after the crash are not. It was sound decision making island hopping and testing limits of physical endurance with some of those swims. In crocdile and shark populated waters.

re: For my fellow Zom holders.

Posted by lsewwww on 2/27/22 at 6:19 am to
I fell for ZOM. Also fell for hmbl and even crybf (yeah me idiot). I made 149 bucks off zom though because I realized that their tech was similar to Abbott labs istat series. I figured it made no sense why zom would take off if Abbott couldnt do it. Its fairly difficult to run hormone assays and have them be accurate even in a lab. A bedside test even more difficult, not to mention its going head to head against established assay testing from Idexx and Antech. (check out idexx stock btw). Zom may be a real company but their product has severe competition and a product line that is not diverse enough to compete with the current companies established.
I keep seeing LLBean boots recommended and don't agree entirely.

I've had too many pairs to remember since 1991. Recent quality has been poor. Stitching of leather to rubber is failing fast and has on my last 3 pairs. Its failing on a pair I bought 18 months ago. They are my 4th back up boot- I only wear them when I will be walking a long distance, need to be extra quiet, its not cold and will be muddy. These boots are COLD after 2 hours in temps below 40.

I've been using the USMC temperate goretex boots (belleville 500 bates equivalent) for 5 years- They are great but have the damn vibram soles which are super slippery/dangerous on ice and rocks. Bought on ebay before prices got out of hand. Good down to 20 or so with thick socks.
Second pair is the air force equivalent- belleville 690. Similar boot, just green. Same dangerous sole. A little colder than the 500. I can wear these in the summer, but get a little warm above 75
3rd pair is Belleville 693/793- these are great- they fixed the sole; its good down to 32 or so. Cannot wear in hot summer weather- too hot
4th pair is Sorel caribou- for weather under 32 but above 0. Those sorels have the same design (leather/rubber) but the sorels last 5 times as long as the bean boots with half the wear time.

Below 0 I use bunny boots. Wore them for 10 hours outside continously today at low of 2 and high of 17 degree temps.
YRMV

EDIT- the 793 is probably best all around boot for me. I surf ebay and bought all these cheap.
My father died when I was 44.
When my dad was 13, his dad died, along with his 8 year old brother in a accident.
he could have gone off the rails but he dug pretty deep and lived a good life. I realized too later, after he was gone, how well he took care of things.
Its been 2 1/2 years and I'm trying to live up to his standards. Its tough, I came within seconds of going WAY off the rails shortly before he died.

re: RIP John Madden

Posted by lsewwww on 12/29/21 at 11:16 am to
What speaks to how great a man he was, was his response after Darryl Stingley was paralyzed, going to visit him. Patriots fans hated the Raiders especially after the '76 playoff game, but could at least admit their coach was a good man

re: Camping in single digit temps

Posted by lsewwww on 12/25/21 at 7:28 pm to
Some good replies:
1. drop the coin on a very good mummy sleeping bad. My first winter campout we hit about 2 below the first night. Luckily my dad forced me to take his old Navy wool sleeping bad liner. That inside my montgomery ward bag saved me. That same night a kid put the space blanket over him instead of under him and melted a hole down thru a foot of snow. Woke up in a lake. The newer bags are pretty awesome but $$$
2. getting up the next morning was brutal at that temp. Just starting a fire was like in slow motion.
3. good mittens! or layer system. The OR mutant mitts are my favorite with wool us army liners tertiary.
4. good boots! I use the usgi bunny boots.
5 a good hat or head system. I use a poly balaclava and a british army mtp goretex covering.
6. the smarts to know what to do if you fall in something and get wet. Your feet will be fine with bunny boots but its your legs freezing solid that gets you. Have firestarters with you and the means to ignite it several ways.
In deep snow an igloo is way warmer than any tent but gotta stay away from the wet flor. Need some serious mats or skins for that. Some tents are a bitch to set up in thsoe temps. I love snow shelters or even hemlock or spruce bows in a lean too with a fire going.
Quite honestly training and experience helps alot. Theres a reason guys go to the SERE schools for this

re: Maxing Out Retirement Savings

Posted by lsewwww on 12/22/21 at 6:18 pm to
I know you said custodial: 529 plan wuld be a presumption that specific kids would go to college but it seems like a logical tax shelter place to put money in your situation.