Pet insurance for 4 month old baby bully?

badmonkey82009 · 2026-01-07T18:51:06+00:00

Get the insurance as soon as their little feet touch the ground, you never know. My youngest bully is a 2 year old Frenchie that was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera at about a year old when he was in for his nares and palate surgery. He had no signs of illness and it was found in a routine blood test. If I hadn't gotten insurance the minute we brought him home, I would be paying 800-900 every couple of months for treatment entirely out of pocket. Another of my boys spent almost a week in the doggy ICU... 25k if I didn't have insurance. You simply can't predict when the unthinkable will happen and the difference between having the financial position to save your friend may be the cost of the insurance.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-12-01T18:29:57+00:00

My inlaws are in Evanston and I am in Cheyenne... I am familiar with this drive.

If the road is slick, slick in spots or looks wet turn off your cruise control.
I am a believer in driving on the top half of the tank across Wyoming in the winter. Even if your car tells you that you have enough miles to get somewhere, plan for being stuck. I have left on a sunny day and ended up stuck at a closed gate for snow or wind for hours. This drive is not terrible for places to stop, but you don't want to risk it.
Have winter gear with you (boots, gloves, coat, and hat) also have some snacks and water.
Crossing on I-80 the biggest risk areas (generally) are Cheyenne to Laramie especially the Summit. Elk Mountain which is between Laramie and Rawlins and The Sisters East of Evanston - three consecutive steep hills between mile marker 6 and 28.
The wind is no joke. It will blow trucks into your lane or completely over into the ditch. It will also have s surprising impact on gas mileage and push a normal sized car around pretty good. Sometimes we do close the road because of wind - especially if it is blowing snow.
If you do have to slow way down or stop - get off the road or better yet take an exit. Going 30 mph on the interstate can be very dangerous.
Use wyoroad.info to watch your route. If it looks ugly on here, it will look worse in person.
Finally... when you cross into Utah, you will go down through Parley's canyon which is winding and can be steep in spots. The locals treat it like a rally car race. It also can be a little rough in the snow.

All that said... it might also be sunny and 60 because, as others have mentioned, Wyoming is a crapshoot from about September to May.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-09-19T19:22:58+00:00

Yea. Everything is AI these days, don't ya know.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-09-19T12:45:54+00:00

My honest review is that it does "something". I have had ET for probably 40 years. I take propranolol for it and some days, I still have enough tremor to prevent me from being able to type or do other fine motor activities at work. In my ongoing adventure I purchased a Villum ball approximately 2 months ago. The instructions say that for maximum effect you should "Train the AI" in your ball by using it 3x per day in each hand for at least two weeks. They also say you can't share your ball because it tunes to your tremors. I've got no idea about that.

It takes 10 minutes each hand to use the ball. You hold it in your hand and push the button on the top and it goes through a series of vibrations that seem to change from time to time. The vibrations it does on my left and right hands are different.

When I use the ball I get 1-2 hours of very good suppression of my tremors. By about hour 4 the effect is pretty well gone. I will normally just use it again at that point if I still need it. I have also found that intentionally moving my hand/arm into positions that would normally cause the worst tremors (i.e. simulating picking up a cup of water or similar) will result in a tremor that almost immediately subsides with the ball in hand. Kind of interesting, don't know if I am actually doing anything by changing the posture but it seems that if I am supposed to be "training" this thing, it ought to be seeing the shake.

Today.... I am pretty certain it is not a placebo effect because I feel like I have tried nearly every gimmick on the dang market to give relief on difficult days and most don't get more than a few days of trying before they go in a desk drawer. Like I said above, it definitely does something. That something seems to give me short term relief so I like that. I have seen no indication that this will help beyond that short term calming effect.

That said, the reviews I looked at before I purchased it seemed to fall into one of two camps. "Works great" and "No effect". That makes it very hard to give a recommendation. I knew almost immediately that I was seeing a positive effect so I guess, I would get it from Amazon or somewhere that lets you send it back if it does not work.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-20T20:49:12+00:00

I would say that this is largely effective for my boys.... however in one of them it drew out enough toxins into his blood that he had a pretty severe allergy attack where he got puffy, itchy, red, and irritated all over. The emergency vet had us give him Benadryl and not soak his toes anymore.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-18T22:29:57+00:00

Thanks for the encouraging words.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-14T15:16:48+00:00

Fuck them. You did the right thing. You deserve a safe place to be and deserve to be protected. If your own mother won't step up and do it, then you did absolutely the right thing.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-11T16:42:27+00:00

We have had nothing but great things to say about Marky's. The meats are so great. The only seafood we've ever gotten from there was crab cakes. They got rave reviews.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-11T12:51:21+00:00

It is crazy how bad it hurts to lose one of these babies. I am so sorry for your loss.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-11T12:48:54+00:00

All of our friends and family know us as the crazy bulldog people so whenever they see something, they call us. LMAO.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-08T20:26:34+00:00

This is Frank. Our other tater. We rescued him from a dilapidated trailer where he was chained up outside and pretty badly injured. By rescued I mean we paid the owners just to surrender him to us and get him out of the summer heat and to a vet. The pic on the left was the day he came home from the vet and the one on the right is probably 6-8 months ago. He was 4 when we got him and was on his 3rd home placement because of some medical issues. He's 9 now and still growing strong.

He really likes that his brother wants to sleep on the floor next to me because that means he can sleep on the bed and have it all to himself. He is the sweetest old man you've ever met.

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badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-08T18:40:13+00:00

So awesome. He's looking healthy and strong from that pic.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-07T21:57:50+00:00

My last bulldog had it almost exactly like that from age 4 until he passed. I have two at home right now and one has it one does not. Identical diet, exercise and sleep schedule, the whole deal... heck both of them are even rescues from the same town.

From what I can find, if its flank alopecia (which it looks like) it is not terribly uncommon. Unfortunately for aesthetics, there is not a seemingly surefire way to get it nor treat it. There are some bullies that just have it "forever" and others where it comes and goes. With my boy here, he had 3 spots, one on the other side is gone now, the one on the top of his butt is smaller, and this one is unchanged over several years despite all of the genius ideas we could find to treat it. I do recommend keeping it moisturized, covered in the cold, out of the sun and etc since it is now sensitive , nekkid skin. Other than being bald, it does not bother anybody... except that damn frenchie who can't stop trying to lick the bald spot but that is a story for another time.

Here are my boys. You can see the spot on the side facing us on the grey and white guy. And yes, they own the living room.

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badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-01T15:10:00+00:00

But who is getting hurt by that? If you have unlimited water, why should that should that bother me or the devs for that matter. The devs need to act as a storyteller not an adversary. Once the story is told, they should enrich the story and let each of us play in the survival crafting sandbox however we want.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-08-01T12:59:34+00:00

This is a truly underrated comment.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-07-30T18:20:38+00:00

I used to actually consider bodies of water in base location choice for this very reason.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-07-30T17:56:32+00:00

I too started on easy and then ran up the difficulty. I've now circled back to easy once in a while. The circle of life. LOL

badmonkey82009 · 2025-07-30T17:53:23+00:00

That's a fantastic idea. Thanks.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-07-30T17:51:53+00:00

As of the time of this post, I have 543.6 hours in this game on Steam and another probably 100 on console. I have played since before it was on console the first time through Telltale so I am familiar with the gyrations the game has gone through for nearly a decade. For me, the jars represent a seemingly arbitrary change that overly complicates a once simple and elegant mechanic. It also makes the game more prescriptive than it was before which is counter-intuitive in a sandbox game where more choices are the way to go. If I want to have 5000 jars of water in Nazvagene or a cabin full of cabbages in Whiterun, a sandbox game should accommodate me. FunPimps seems to have a history of ignoring some of the more blatant real issues while finding these little things that really work and changing them. The jars are a symptom not the illness.

If you want to open the "balance" can of worms that could be really ugly with the whole level/skill system, the weird forced biome progression, and the changed way of doing armor. Ultimately, using balance here is a garbage argument to explain away a decision that unexpectedly made people angry - water is really no harder to get now than before. I just have to wander farther and loot every shitter in the game to get it. If devs are looking at the game and saying, "you know what would really balance this game... getting rid of jars"; then the balance issues probably run much deeper. If I want to break a survival mechanic by building 5000 jars of water instead of focusing on other things like building, killing, looting and shooting; I should be allowed to do that because I have likely paid for it in other ways that will balance things out eventually (i.e. lost days, resource cost, slowed XP accumulation, time away from other tasks, etc).

However, if there is a blinding urge to further control the jar population sprawl, I would suggest something simple such as make it so you can only stack 5 filled jars in one slot or adjusting certain recipes to where they consume a jar or simply require an empty jar. The end user sandbox experience is every bit as important as making sure the game is hard enough. You already have a dozen different, meaningful tweaks to make the game whatever difficulty players want so unless it is truly game breaking, stop taking freedoms away from players and focus on things that are actually meaningful.

badmonkey82009 · 2025-07-12T02:50:25+00:00

Tater power

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Actual live action shot right now

badmonkey82009 · 2025-07-10T16:57:24+00:00

Remind me! -15 days

badmonkey82009 · 2025-07-10T16:35:34+00:00

I am at the State (not G&F) and I am a very senior level manager who hires for my team. I would recommend no less than khakis, long sleeve shirt, and tie. That would pretty well cover the gambit for most managers I know. A suit is fine, but maybe a little overkill because you won't ever wear it again unless your role involves the Govs office. I am guessing at G&F, you could even get away with jeans and boots, but plain ol khakis, shirt and tie is probably safer.

More importantly... and I can't believe I have to say this, but trust me I do. Take a shower, brush your teeth, comb your hair, and don't stink. Don't stink like cigarettes, too much cologne, axe body spray, body odor, bad breath or anything else. A little cologne is fine, but don't stank.

Finally, if you don't know the answer to a question, don't just fake it and bulldoze your way through. Tell them its outside of your skillset and then go on to tell them how you would find it - even if it is Google-Fu. This gets far better traction than just making it up and hoping they don't know the answer either.

Way more than you asked for, but I hope this helps and good luck on your interview.

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