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Kelly and Jake were nervous about taking their 5-month-old daughter on an airplane‚ as most new parents would be. Flying from New Jersey to Mexico isn’t a short haul‚ and they weren’t sure what to expect. But it was on the flight home that the unexpected arose‚ when little Romey was calmly fascinated by the […] The post Woman Crochets a Little Hat for Baby on the Next Aisle to Mark Her First Ever Flight appeared first on Good News Network.

The post Dental Procedures for Cats: How Olga Recovered From Surgery by Christopher Bays 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. Hi‚ I’m Christopher! Read my introduction to learn more about me and my silly Russian Blue cat‚ Olga. Dental issues are common in cats‚ but I was relieved when my veterinarian said Olga’s teeth weren’t covered with plaque and tarter. However‚ after a brief examination‚ she discovered a broken tooth and another one with an abscess. I scheduled a dental cleaning‚ and the veterinarian mentioned that Olga might need one or more teeth extracted. Olga hasn’t been under anesthesia since she was spayed‚ and I was worried about her being put to sleep for so long for surgery‚ but my friends reassured me that she would be fine. After Olga was revived after the operation‚ my vet sent me a message that she was doing great and was an excellent patient. I was happy to hear the good news but surprised she cooperated with the veterinary team. When I try to give her medication‚ she resists and sometimes draws blood when she slashes me with her claws. Recovering From Dental Procedures On the way home from the vet’s office‚ Olga didn’t make a sound‚ but she turned into a loudmouth when she returned to her territory. The medication made her pupils dilate‚ and she looked like a “demon cat” for several hours. She cried when I left the room and wouldn’t leave my side for the rest of the evening. The medication made her hyper‚ and she had trouble sitting still. When she jumped in my lap‚ she couldn’t relax; she kept wriggling around and resembled a fish out of the water. She eventually calmed down‚ but I had difficulty administering the antibiotic the following day. Look into my eyes‚ and I’ll hypnotize you. Medications for Dental Surgery Amoxicillin is a standard antibiotic for humans and animals‚ and I had to give her two doses for 5 days. Olga hated it and didn’t enjoy having the liquid shot into her mouth with a syringe. Although the type of amoxicillin may vary depending on your vet‚ the liquid I was prescribed looked like Pepto Bismol. It was thick and pink and stained my counter and carpet. One morning‚ Olga ran into the living room after I gave her the antibiotic. She dribbled the liquid on the carpet in several spots‚ and I had to scrub the stains several times with a high-end carpet cleaner to remove them. I’ve removed cat vomit‚ candle wax‚ and red wine from my carpet before‚ but the amoxicillin stains were more stubborn and challenging to remove. Curled up on my lap Recovery Time Olga was more affectionate when recovering from the procedure‚ but all cats react differently to surgery. Several years ago‚ my Siamese cat didn’t want to be touched while recovering from neuter surgery‚ and I don’t blame him. Unlike him‚ Olga needed more reassurance that everything would be okay. She slept on my lap instead of disappearing for a few hours of “alone time.” She yowled when I went outside to work in the yard and hit me on the leg when she saw me walking toward the garage. It took Olga less than a week to return to normal‚ and although I miss the extra attention and hearing her talk more‚ I’m glad the procedure and recovery process weren’t as frightening as I anticipated. The post Dental Procedures for Cats: How Olga Recovered From Surgery by Christopher Bays 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.

Between June and late December‚ I noticed a disturbing trend. Daylight hours shortened day by day. Where we once had 15 hours of daylight‚ we know have a paltry 9. That is a loss of one hour of daylight per month. At that rate‚ by September of 2024‚ there will be no more daylight and night will rule eternal over a frozen wasteland. I am not alone in embracing the power of extrapolation. After all‚ if there’s one thing that experience teaches us‚ it is that short term trends always continue without bound—or at least they have over the month or so I tracked them. What futures await can be foreseen using simple math. Perhaps fictional examples of such extrapolations might help. Take the following five…   Media Advertising has increased its impact on society over the last century. Shiny brochures assure us that the increasingly sophisticated methods available to the folks on Madison Avenue point towards a future in which convincing a skeptical public to back even a dubious candidate or policy will be as trivial as convincing them to buy an Edsel. Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth explored some implications of this trend in their 1952 classic‚ The Space Merchants. By the era in which The Space Merchants is set‚ vast corporations dominate the Earth. Their rule is dependent on skilled media companies presenting the masses with enticing messaging that is little inhibited by grim facts like material shortages‚ rampant pollution‚ or (as in the case of the upcoming Venus Project) the fact that Venus is unsuited for human occupation. Star-class copywriter Mitch Courtney of Fowler Schocken advertising agency‚ assigned the Venus Project‚ provides the reader with a thrilling tour of the high-stakes corporate politics in a world where truth is whatever the client wants truth to be.   Fuel The world runs on fossil fuels. The total potential supply of oil is fixed (new oil reserves form far slower than humans use them up). There are finite quantities of fossil fuels. In fact‚ US oil production peaked in 1970. In the early 1970s‚ future known reserves were often given as about 30 years. Simple extrapolation reveals that all the oil would have been sucked out of the ground during the early years of the second Bush administration or given increasing demand‚ perhaps during the Clinton administration. The setting of Michael P. Kube-McDowell’s 1985 Emprise is shaped by two coincidental developments. The first is the Weak Force Intermodulation Projector‚ a cunning device that renders nuclear power generators as inert as the nuclear weapons the modulator was created to squelch. The second was the entirely foreseeable end to cheap power as oil reserves ran out without a nuclear option to replace them. Result: a new (although mercifully short) dark age of poverty‚ ignorance‚ and famine.   Speed Between 1900 and 1960 the top speed achieved by human vehicles increased three hundredfold‚ from about 100 kilometers per hour to about 30‚000 kilometers per hour. This is equivalent to an annual increase in speed of about ten percent per year. Sixty-plus years having elapsed since 1960‚ it follows logically that top speeds should have increased another three hundredfold‚ to about 9 million kilometers per hour‚ just shy of 1 percent of the speed of light. To someone in 1960‚ it would have been unclear how this could be achieved. However‚ the math is a compelling argument that some path to these prodigious velocities must exist. Joe Haldeman’s 1974 classic The Forever War details an interstellar war facilitated in part by the development of tachyon-emitting rockets. Unbounded by the mass ratios of conventional rockets‚ tachyon-emitting rockets enable humans to traverse interplanetary and intrastellar distances as easily as navies traversed the oceans in the early 20th century. In combination with relativity and the astonishing discovery that collapsars provide instantaneous travel over galactic distances‚ the tachyon rocket facilitates a largely pointless interstellar war that persists for centuries.   Population Thanks to such factors as large families‚ decreasing infant death rates‚ and increasing lifespans‚ not only did the human population of Earth reach an astonishing 3.5 billion people by 1968‚ but it was reported that number was growing at slightly more than 2 percent per year. A straightforward calculation shows that the current global population must be somewhere in the vicinity of eleven billion people. Although it’s hard to imagine the hellish overcrowded world that math assures us we live in‚ science fiction has done its best. Consider J.G. Ballard’s 1964 story “Billennium.” Unlike some other authors‚ Ballard has faith that human institutions will find ways to feed the ever-expanding population. What governments cannot do is make land area. Accordingly‚ Ballard’s hapless protagonists live in buildings with ever-shrinking apartments. Circumstances encourage ingenious solutions to the problem of living space.   Nuclear proliferation Between 1945 and 1964 the number of nations with nuclear weapons increased five-fold‚ an increase of about nine percent per year. The number of extant nuclear weapons increased from three to thousands. Simple math suggests that over the next 60 years‚ the number of nations with nuclear arsenals could have grown to about 800. These nations would control many millions of nuclear warheads (in sum‚ not cooperatively). Nevil Shute’s 1957 On the Beach is but one novel to explore the disturbing implications of rampant nuclear proliferation. Legions of small‚ irresponsible nations armed with inexpensive nuclear weapons led to a catastrophic war that utterly depopulated the Northern hemisphere. Only those lucky enough to be in the Southern hemisphere survive…but only for the months it will take deadly fallout to reach the south. There is nothing to be done but accept inevitable death with dignity. ***   Extrapolation is a powerful technique‚ one that allowed the authors of the past to predict the stupendously capable‚ impoverished‚ overcrowded‚ utterly depopulated world in which we’re apparently now living. These are merely a few examples of what can be accomplished using this simple method. There are many more. If I have somehow overlooked your favourite examples‚ as a simple extrapolation from past essays suggests I have‚ comments are (as ever) below. In the words of fanfiction author Musty181‚ four-time Hugo finalist‚ prolific book reviewer‚ and perennial Darwin Award nominee James Davis Nicoll “looks like a default mii with glasses.” His work has appeared in Interzone‚ Publishers Weekly and Romantic Times as well as on his own websites‚ James Nicoll Reviews (where he is assisted by editor Karen Lofstrom and web person Adrienne L. Travis) and the 2021‚ 2022‚ and 2023 Aurora Award finalist Young People Read Old SFF (where he is assisted by web person Adrienne L. Travis). His Patreon can be found here.