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The post Do Cats Get Seasick? Vet-Reviewed Facts & Info by Ashley Bates appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it, but all of these articles were assigned, contracted and paid for, so they aren't considered public domain. However, we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article, then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com. Click to Skip Ahead Seasickness/Motion Sickness Explained How to Tell If Your Cat Is Getting Sick How to Reduce Motion Sickness Everyone gets a little uneasy sometimes when their body is being tossed this way and that. Some animals get motion sickness far easier than others. If you’re wondering if cats get seasick, or motion sick, the answer is they absolutely can! In this article, we’re going to explore a little bit more about motion sickness and ways that you can curb your cat’s queasiness. Seasickness/Motion Sickness Explained Seasickness is a form of motion sickness, and most motion sickness in cats is due to the anxiety and stress caused by traveling. They are being taken out of their normal environment and placed into a moving vehicle where everything feels very unsafe, potentially causing major insecurity. To make things worse, the only place a lot of cats go is to stressful situations in themselves, such as the veterinarian or groomer, making their anxiety related to travel even greater. Often, reducing a cat’s anxiety or stress when traveling will help, but not all solutions for motion sickness are so simple. Every cat responds differently to environmental stimuli. If your cat is sick every single time they get on a boat or in the car, time itself might not help too much. However, if they are a kitten or simply not acclimated to the process of traveling, they might just need a little time to get accustomed to it. Motion sickness can also be due to overstimulation of the inner ear, something that can happen with increased movement, such as from a car or boat. This is why it’s important to talk to your vet if your cat experiences motion sickness in order to get the best treatment. Speak To a Vet Online From the Comfort of Your Couch! If you need to speak with a vet but can’t get to one, head over to PangoVet. It’s an online service where you can talk to a vet online and get the personalized advice you need for your pet — all at an affordable price! Click to Speak With a Vet How to Tell If Your Cat Is Getting Sick It’s relatively easy to tell if a cat is getting sick. They might start acting restless, overly vocalizing, and even dry heaving. While you might already know, here are a few things to look out for so you can be prepared for your cat’s sickness. Signs of motion sickness can include: Drooling Lip-licking Distressed meowing Shifting or moving around There is often quite a bit of time in between the first signs of motion sickness to when your animal actually vomits. Some pets may not vomit but may continue to salivate and vocalize along the way. Image Credit: catinrocket, Shutterstock How to Reduce Motion Sickness There are several methods you can utilize to curb most of the issues related to motion sickness in cats. Below are a couple things you can do to make sure that your cat is comfortable and jitter-free for the ride. Empty Stomach It’s best to make sure that your cat’s tummy is empty before any boat or car rides. They can get a lot sicker if they have something in their stomach to throw up. While adequate hydration is important, having food sitting in the gut can actually make the motion sickness more intense, so plan their feedings accordingly. Image Credit: ela_elarts, Shutterstock Anxiety Supplements There are plenty of anti-anxiety medicines on the market. If your cat gets sick due to motion they may need to have some type of medication to soothe their spirits during travel. You should always talk to your vet before giving your cat any medication, including anxiety supplements. While you will find a number of choices over-the-counter, be sure to speak to your vet first to make sure your choice is a good one for your cat. If your cat’s anxiety is significant, you might need a prescription medication to help during this time. Desensitization Sometimes desensitization can lower anxiety levels. This means taking your cat for car rides, or other means of travel, frequently and for short durations. Short, frequent trips can help your kitty gain their sea legs and feel more comfortable with the whole situation.  As your cat starts to feel better about the whole thing, you can increase the length of the trips. This includes desensitization to the carrier as well. Before ever taking their first trip, your cat should be completely at ease being in their carrier. To help them get accustomed to it, start by leaving it out and open around your house. Encourage your cat to use it by putting a comfortable bed and some of their favorite items in it. As they become comfortable using it, you can start to shut the door while they’re in there for short periods. Gradually increase the amount of time they are shut in and then start to pick them up and move them around in it. Once this becomes second nature to them, you can start putting them in the carrier and then moving them to the car. While this doesn’t work in every case, it can if you believe the motion sickness is caused primarily by jitters. Image Credit: Creative Cat Studio, Shutterstock Offer Fresh Water Whenever you can, offer fresh, clean, cool water during travel. Keeping your pet hydrated can help significantly with motion sickness. Having a water bottle that clips to the carrier can really help with this. Keep the Car Comfortable The car should not be too hot or cold. Try to keep a very friendly temperature to ensure the comfort of your kitty. Keep in mind that air blowing directly on them can cause distress as well, so always make sure to cool or heat the car before your cat gets in. Add a Favorite Item Sometimes, everyone needs a little reassurance. If your cat is having trouble acclimating to the new environment, you might try bringing something that they like or that smells like home. Whether this is a favorite toy, a blanket, or something else that is very familiar, it can help reduce and alleviate a lot of that stress. Keep in mind that if your cat does get sick, whatever item you choose should be easy to wipe down, in case they accidentally vomit on the item. Conclusion Now you understand the process of seasickness or motion sickness in cats a little better. It is perfectly normal for cats to feel this way, especially if they aren’t acclimated to traveling. However, with proper preparation, they will typically become better adjusted to travel, especially if you expose them to it frequently. Don’t let their motion sickness keep you from putting them in the car as more frequent exposure can actually alleviate a lot of the issue. Also see: Can Cats Swim? Truths & Myths About Felines (Vet-Reviewed) Sources https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/motion-sickness-in-cats https://www.merckvetmanual.com/cat-owners/brain-spinal-cord-and-nerve-disorders-of-cats/motion-sickness-in-cats https://www.petmd.com/cat/conditions/digestive/c_ct_motion_sickness Featured Image Credit: Mertframe, Shutterstock The post Do Cats Get Seasick? Vet-Reviewed Facts & Info by Ashley Bates appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it, but all of these articles were assigned, contracted and paid for, so they aren't considered public domain. However, we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article, then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com.

On Monday, nearly 50,000 workers at 36 ports with the International Longshoremen’s Association began striking, the latest failure of Biden-Harris economic policies.  The workers are demanding higher pay, a backlash against the record 20% cumulative inflation under the failed leadership of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.  This strike could have major inflationary effects as it affects a shocking half of the country’s goods. Depending on the severity of the strike, it could play a major role in November’s elections—an October surprise, of sorts.  A prolonged strike could create price spikes, even as inflation and elevated prices starting in 2021 are still hurting consumers. That would unfold as wholesalers and retailers are already expected to pass higher transportation and shipping costs to consumers. It’s no secret that Biden and Harris’ White House has been an economic disaster for all Americans, especially for low-income and middle-class Americans, because inflation is essentially a tax. Poorer and working-class Americans are hit the hardest because they spend a greater proportion of their incomes on consumer goods.  Depending on how long this strike lasts, it could have a significant impact on family budgets. Under the strike, cargo stuck in ports doesn’t make it to store shelves, leaving fewer options and supply chain disruptions. Fresh and perishable foods could be lost. Former President Donald Trump noted the contrast in a statement released after the strike began:  “The situation should have never come to this and, had I been President, it would not have. This is only happening because of the inflation brought on by Kamala Harris’ two votes for massive, out-of-control spending, and her decision to cut off energy exploration.” As economist Stephen Moore notes, during Biden’s nearly four years in office, inflation is up roughly 20%, but during Trump’s four-year term, inflation rose a much smaller 8%. As other observers noted, while protectionism can raise prices and should be avoided, Trump’s relentless focus on building American-made goods also protects against the shock of disruptions to foreign-produced supply chains. And protectionism is not the same as ensuring that foreign countries engaging in unfair trade practices are held directly accountable. “Americans who thrived under President Trump can’t even get by because of Kamala Harris. This strike is a direct result of her actions,” Trump continued. “American workers should be able to negotiate for better wages, especially since the shipping companies are mostly foreign-flag vessels, including the largest consortium ONE.” (The Singapore-based ONE is the sixth-largest shipping company in the world, according to Politico.) The strike could cause furloughs and job losses because jobs connected to ports could be affected, including truckers delivering goods, warehouse workers, manufacturers, and other workers dependent on the ports. These workers could be furloughed or let go if the strike is prolonged. That’s why it’s not surprising we are witnessing generational shifts among blue-collar workers, including Teamsters union workers (breaking from their union leadership), trending toward Republicans like Trump. It’s because Harris’ policies–which are indistinguishable from Biden’s policies, according to the White House—are a disaster for working-class Americans, and the dock strike is a case in point. This generational shift is a significant blow for Democrats, who have taken organized labor for granted for decades. Over the past 10 years, the Republican Party has shifted to the working-class party in many areas. This came following record household wealth and income gains seen under the Trump administration (prior to COVID-19 shocks) among women, black, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. These gains came thanks in part to the 2017 tax-reform bill passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by Trump. In the battleground state of Arizona, new polling from Suffolk University and USA Today found that 29% of black voters are going to vote for Donald Trump. That’s a significant shift away from Democrats for black voters, with Harris garnering only 67% of black support in that state. (Historically, nationally, black voters often break 90% or more for Democrats.) Nationwide, including projections for all battleground states, RealClearPolitics’ estimates place Trump with 281 Electoral College votes and Harris with 257, with 270 needed to win. The dock strike could continue to shift those trends further toward Trump, what with Harris’ inflationary policies. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Dock Strikers Demand Higher Wages to Offset Biden-Harris Inflation appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Seriously, Who Is Running the Country Right Now?

Politico loves the smell of Lawfare in the morning.  The Playbook team of Eugene Daniels and Rachael "Impeachmas" Bade was so excited about this newly unsealed Jack Smith filing designed to harm Donald Trump that they blatantly declared that this Smith filing was "The first October surprise of 2024." Let us now join Daniels and Bade gleefully delighting in Smith's "mountain of evidence" against Trump. THE UNTOLD SECRETS OF JAN. 6 — It looks like we have October Surprise No. 1, courtesy of a man you may have forgotten about: special counsel JACK SMITH. Yesterday, in an unsealed legal filing, Smith gave his most complete look yet at the mountain of evidence he’s amassed against Trump in the case laying out his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. In recent American history, there are probably few moments that have been more scrutinized than the months leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, and yet the filing’s 165 pages were filled with new details and anecdotes. (That’s in part because Smith, unlike other investigators, spent more than a year knocking down Trump’s immunity claims and following lines of inquiry that none of the other investigations were able to.) Did Smith's filing very conveniently overlook the transcripts released on September 20 by the Committee on Administration that President Donald Trump told Mark Milley on January 3, 2021 to use the National Guard or regular army soldiers to ensure the Capitol would be safe on January 6 of that year? Probably  not since that would serve to ruin the narrative presented by the very political Jack Smith hyped by his Politico acolytes. Daniels and Bade also reviewed the downbeat legal angle followed by their upbeat hopeful blatant political angle. — The legal angle: If it wasn’t already clear, there’s no way this case is going to trial this year. Trump’s lawyers don’t even want to respond to Smith’s claims in court until late November, Josh reported last night — three weeks after the election. And if Trump wins, well, that’s lights out for Smith. — The political angle: While Trump’s trials were helpful in coalescing the Republican Party around him during the GOP primary, it’s much more complicated for the general election, where both Trump’s legal imbroglios and attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election are not viewed favorably by the voters who are likely to prove decisive. Daniels and Bade conclude that while it would be unseemly for the Harris campaign, at least in public, to comment on the Smith filing, Harris surrogates and other Democrats could go full October Surprise politics to hype it. Remember, officially there is nothing at all political about Jack Smith's October surprise despite Politico pretty much announcing that it is absolutely political and loving every anti-Trump tidbit. But much will depend on how the Harris campaign and Democrats actually use what’s in the filing to drive home their points about Trump’s return to the White House. So far, the campaign has been mum. When President JOE BIDEN was at the top of the ticket, he was always extremely careful to not comment on ongoing cases so as not to be credibly accused of putting his finger on the scale. Harris is expected to handle it the same way, aides tell Playbook. While she has repeatedly brought up Trump’s criminal indictments on the campaign trail, it’s exclusively on the 37 counts on which he was actually found guilty in court. We wouldn’t expect that to change in the next month. But, that’s not going to stop other Democrats and Harris surrogates from using the filing as a reminder of the messiness and chaos of the Trump years. Thank you for that helpful suggestion, Politico, for those outside the Harris campaign to go full bore on hyping Smith's utterly political "October Surprise" filing. 

As part of the launch of her new book, former First Lady Melania Trump put out a video where she broke with pro-lifers and spouted her own pro-abortion stance. But according to some of the cast members of ABC’s The View, Melania couldn’t possibly hold personal opinions that run contrary to her husbands or the political party she’s not a member of. Instead, they suggested that it was part of some GOP plot to trick voters about the Republican position on abortion. The suggestion that Melania’s position was just “a big scam” came from co-host Joy Behar. But she couldn’t get her argument straight. She flip-flopped between claiming it was ploy to help her husband get elected but also, at the same time, she hated him: So, 62 percent of Americans oppose overthrowing Roe v. Wade, 62 percent. The Republican Party knows this. I think they put her up to this. I think it's a big scam. They put her out there, you know, as the face of, like, the American population that wants to have abortion rights, and they figure, well, maybe, you know, she'll talk him into – The only problem she doesn't talk to him. “But besides that, I think that this is just a big lie. It’s another lie from that area. Don't buy it,” she proclaimed. Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that “even though it was written a while ago,” the release of Melania’s opinion was “strategic” to the election. “I think they think this is going to give Republicans permission or independence to be like, ‘oh, I guess I could vote for him because people who support abortion can,’” she said. But she also pointed out that “this actually doesn't put her out of step with all modern Republican first ladies. Laura Bush, Barbara Bush were all actually pro-choice themselves and had declared that on the record before.”     She then dubbed this another “hypocrisy” of the Republican Party since the story didn’t cause them to abandon their candidate a month before the election. “But in the Trump-era if any other national Republican candidate running for president, if their spouse came out and said, ‘I am pro-choice and I even support late term abortion,’ their career would be over,” she huffed. Co-host Sunny Hostin used dangerous language when suggesting what Melania did was actually her trying to hurt her husband. “I also think that she wants to take him out! She does not want to be the first lady. Anymore,” she proclaimed, just weeks after the second assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life. Pretend moderate co-host Sara Haines proposed that “Trump probably feels like Melania” but because “he made promises and deals with the Devil” he now “has to pay up” to the pro-lifers who helped elect him the first time. As NewsBusters has previously shown, Haines is not only pro-abortion, she’s seemingly anti-pro-lifer. Last December, she suggested it was “God’s will” that pro-lifers die rather than receive life-saving cancer treatments. In recent days, Melania had become something of a common topic of discuss for the liberal ladies and some of their past claims contradict what they’re saying now. A whole week prior, they were mocking the Trump marriage for being dysfunctional; which doesn’t seem to fit their new narrative that she was doing this to help him. Two weeks ago, they were trying to say Melania represented the entire Republican Party after racy photos of her resurfaced. On a related note, moderator Whoopi Goldberg had the nerve to "all of those Christians and Catholics out there" that the only "human being" impacted by abortion is the mom. "Is this the way Jesus wants you to be? Is this the way Jesus wants you to act?" she chided, going on to suggest they didn’t care about the struggles people go through.   Whoopi lectures "all of those Christians and Catholics out there" that the only "human being" impacted by abortion is the mom. "Is this the way Jesus wants you to be? Is this the way Jesus wants you to act?" She also suggests that religious folks don't care about folks' struggles pic.twitter.com/8L6JSg8hle — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 3, 2024   The real hypocrisy comes from The View as their framing of Melania rapidly shifts depending on what’s needed in the moment. And while they wanted to keep the focus on the Republican candidate’s spouse, they refused to talk about Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff being accused of slapping a former girlfriend after drinking heavily during a date. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View October 3, 2024 11:04:20 a.m. Eastern (…) SARA HAINES: I actually think Trump probably feels like Melania does but made a lot of promises – cause he used to be pro-choice and he used to be more of a Democrat. I think he made promises and deals with the Devil and has to pay up and that’s why he can't quite figure out which way he's going. But I do think this could affect enthusiasm for people that are voting on this one issue. JOY BEHAR: So, 62 percent of Americans oppose overthrowing Roe v. Wade, 62 percent. The Republican Party knows this. I think they put her up to this. I think it's a big scam. They put her out there, you know, as the face of, like, the American population that wants to have abortion rights, and they figure, well, maybe, you know, she'll talk him into – The only problem she doesn't talk to him. [Laughter] But – Probably. But besides that, I think that this is just a big lie. It’s another lie from that area. Don't buy it. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: By the way, I bet this is coming to a Kamala Harris ad near you very soon that Melania Trump is in favor of not just abortion rights, she goes on to defend late term abortion. She goes into great detail in the book about it. HAINES: Cause she understands why less than one percent do that, just to be clear. FARAH GRIFFIN: Yes. And I think that it's a couple of things. Well, for one, this actually doesn't put her out of step with all modern Republican first ladies. Laura Bush, Barbara Bush were all actually pro-choice themselves and had declared that on the record before. But in the Trump-era if any other national Republican candidate running for president, if their spouse came out and said, ‘I am pro-choice and I even support late term abortion,’ their career would be over. But underscores the hypocrisy with Trump in that just nothing matters within the Republican Party at this point. BEHAR: Nothing. No. FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it's twofold. I agree. I think it's strategic even though it was written a while ago. I think they think this is going to give Republicans permission or independence to be like, ‘oh, I guess I could vote for him because people who support abortion can’ but it's also money. Who was going to buy this book outside of MAGA die-hards. But now it's buzzy, now we're talking about it because she's putting stuff out that’s more interesting. So – BEHAR: You agree with me. FARAH GRIFFIN: I do agree with you. HOSTIN: I have a different take. BEHAR: All right. Well, go right ahead, missy. HOSTIN: I think she – I think she hates him. BEHAR: Yeah. Well, yeah. HOSTIN: Okay, so we can all agree on that. BEHAR: That’s a given. HOSTIN: That's a given. I also think that she wants to take him out! She does not want to be the first lady. Anymore. [Applause] BEHAR: They agree with you. HOSTIN: She doesn’t want to be the first lady. (…)