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Read the full show notes: https://www.draimee.org/preparing-for-embryo-transfer On today's podcast episode, I'm talking about preparing for embryo transfer. I find that it's helpful to think about embryo transfer the same way you might think about having a very special guest over for dinner. What are you going to do if you have a very special person over? You're going to make sure everything is absolutely perfect. When it comes to preparing for an embryo transfer, you want to take the same approach. Your metaphorical home in the house analogy is your uterus. The devastation of doing more tests and finding out that something might be wrong that you have to fix is kind of a pain, but the devastation of going through a transfer that doesn't work is also pretty darn awful. Because I work so hard to help families, if I can do anything to prevent someone from not experiencing the devastation of a negative embryo transfer, I'm going to do everything possible to clean up that house and make sure it's perfect. What I recommend is that people do 3 tests before embryo transfer to make sure your uterus is absolutely perfect prior to your embryo transfer.They are: Hysteroscopy Saline Infusion, Sonogram, and Hysterosalpingogram. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Do you have questions about IVF, and what to expect? Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, June 26, 2023 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom. Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org where you can schedule a consultation. Other ways to connect: Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips Join Egg Whisperer School Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates
Join us as we finish recapping Season 1 Episode 2. It made us angry and still made us laugh at the end with Chandler, Joey and Phoebe's one liners. You can email us at letstalkfriends24@gmail.com and follow us on instagram at Lets_Talk_Friends24
Oh boy this episode made us angry! From Mr. and Mrs. Gellar being mean to poor Monica to Carol and Susan's way of trying to keep Ross from giving his child his last name. Join us as we recap season 1 episode 2 and let us know if it made your blood boil like it did us. Stay tune as we are adding part 2 April 19. You can email us at letstalkfriends24@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at lets_talk_friends24
Today it's Sabrina from the News Junkie who pulls double-duty and produces for us. After WOKE News, we talk about a new Hot Wheels toy from Mattel that is geared toward children on the Autism Spectrum. Then it's time for 'Whatd'ya Do That's New,' which Sabrina prepped for, but not Jim or Deborah! She also offers up what she is going to assign as our next Celebrity Chooser. Next, we talk about Steve-O, who has been sober for nearly 16 years, declining to appear on Bill Maher's podcast after the host refused to not smoke pot during their interview. After that we discuss recreational marijuana, which will be on the November ballot in Florida. Scott Brown joins us from Edgewater Family Wealth for 'It's Only Money' to talk about taking action with your cash and even listener guilt. Trivia is next, followed by You Heard It Here First before we wrap up the show.
Tory pays a price for defiance. Stingray does battle with his conscience. A celebratory night on the town takes a turn for Johnny, Daniel and Chozen.Listen as A.C. and Jose breakdown and share the lessons and insight gained from episode 9 of Cobra Kai Season 5, entitled, Survivors.Links to this week's scene discussions and insight:[4:33] There is One Woman[6:52] Daniel - Playa Hater[11:01] The Sonogram[21:27] There's Still Another Way[34:26] Start Looking at What's In Front[45:50] Stingray![01:02:35] Eye of the Tiger!Follow our show on Twitter and Instagram: @cobrakaipodshowFollow us on Twitter and Instagram: @ac_cristales and @josebarron18
Roswitha Zink, Psychotherapeutin und pferdegestürzte Therapeutin hat im Verbund mit internationalen Wissenschaftlern etwas herausgefunden, was auch für Freizeitreiter unglaublich spannend ist. Das Pferde durch ein tiefes Durchatmen oder Abschnauben ihre Herzfrequenz positiv beeinflussen können. Die Pferde können sich von Natur aus stark abschütteln und abschnauben, um lebensbedrohliche Situationen abzuatmen und da spielt das laute Ausatmen eine zentrale Rolle. Mit Ihrer Studie „Schnaubkorrespondenz: Die Melodie des Schnaubens gibt Antwort auf Pferdefragen“ haben sie versucht, verschiedene Ausatmungstöne wie Schnauber, Blubberer, Grunzer zu klassifizieren, um die Vierbeiner noch besser zu verstehen. Weiters haben sie gezielt mit den Pferden geübt, viel zu schnauben und das könne man praktisch in jeder Reitweise und jedes Training einbauen. Egal ob man mit positiver Verstärkung, als auch mit Druck und Entspannung arbeitet: Das Schnauben sei immer ein unglaublich großer Benefit für die Pferde. Es gibt allerdings auch Schnauber die ein Ausdruck der Anstrengung sind und nicht der Losgelassenheit. Das sind Schnauber, die schnell abfallen. Für alle, die sich nicht ganz sicher sind, ob der Schnauber schnell abfällt oder nicht hat Roswitha einen Tipp: Man geht beim Handy auf Sprachnotizen oder Sprachaufnahme. Wenn das Pferd hineinschnaubt sieht man Linien (ein Sonogram), die berg- und talfahren. Wenn hier der Linien-Hügel schnell abfällt ist das Pferd angespannt. Je flacher der Soundhügel abfällt, desto entspannter der Vierbeiner. Und je stärker dann noch die Nüstern dazu beben, umso entspannter wirkt das Schnauben auf die Herzfrequenz des Pferdes. Ein positives Beispiel ist das Blubbern/Schnauben, wenn der Futterwagen durch die Stallgasse fährt. Entspanntes Schnauben sollte man auch beim Reiten beachten und belohnen. Nur durch das Zuwenden, schnauben sie bereits viel mehr, sind ausgeglichener. Anfänglich kann das Schnauben auch noch gar nicht hörbar sein, da muss man die Nüstern des Pferdes beobachten. Um hier ein geschultes Auge zu bekommen, gibt Roswitha Zink und ihr Team Webinare zur Schnaubtherapie . Mehr Info auf www.lichtblickhof.at Viel Schnaub- und Hörvergnügen wünschen Euch Julia und die Welshies. Musik- und Soundrechte: https://auftrab.eu/index.php/musik-und-soundrechte/ #Schnauben #Blubbern #Lichtblickhof #reiten #Reittherapie #Entspannung #Schnaukorrespondenz #Grunezen #Pferd #Podcast Foto Credit: Julia Salzer
Author Mary Roach is a hands-on writer specializing in science related topics that tap into some of the more curious and unexpected nooks of our lives. But “hands-on” doesn't fully capture the lengths she'll go to capture her stories – for her book examining the intricacies of sex, science, and relationships, she convinced her husband to have sex while monitored and recorded in an MRI, Ultrasound, Sonogram-like device…Really, no Really! Mary Roach is an author specializing in popular science and humor having written seven New York Times bestsellers, including Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void and her latest book, FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, GQ, and the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, among many, many others. Her 2009 TED talk, "Ten Things You Didn't Know About Orgasm", made the organization's list of top 10 most popular talks of all time. IN THIS EPISODE: How Mary chooses esoteric and often taboo topics. Women's sexual arousal can be measured…or can it? Mary embraces the taboo, including researching how astronauts avoid “fecal decapitation.” The shocking places where donated cadavers can end up. Using the Scientific Method to “prove” the existence of a higher power. India's battles with elephants and monkeys. Googleheim: Science Myth vs. Science Fact Website: MaryRoach.net X/Twitter: @mary_roach FOLLOW REALLY NO REALLY: www.reallynoreally.com Instagram YouTube TikTok Facebook Threads X (Twitter)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome back to our weekend Cabral HouseCall shows! This is where we answer our community's wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging questions to help people get back on track! Check out today's questions: Marina: Hi Dr Cabral, I'm after some help for my sleep. I fall asleep easily around 9-9:30 but wake up 2-3am unable to fall asleep. I do know that my cortisol is super high all day. I have cut back on intense exercise, 1 espresso a day around 10am, meditation 15-20 min a day, breathing 5-10 min a day. I'm not noticing positive effects. I'm stuck in sympathetic mode. Any tips? Thank you Meghan: Hey Dr C, firstly sharing in total gratitude for you, your passion, dedication and genuine care for your community. Thank you for all you do. My question today that I couldn't find when searched was about grounding bed sheets. Grounding is a hot topic but in modern lifestyle it's always easy to spend time barefoot in the grass each day and it makes sense to me to be able to be grounded for the duration of sleep to advance healing (so long as they are a low emf product of course). There are different types some you plug in and others you don't. Wanted to get your thoughts on whether there is any real science behind grounding bed sheets? I have also seen the grounding mats for office use that may be helpful as well. Thanks again. Keep on shining your light. Anonymous: Hello Dr. Cabral. Could you please detail what is the best workout for women with PCOS and the best time of the day to exercise to improve insulin sensitivity and reduce cortisol, inflammation and testosterone? I am 29 and have lean PCOS. I heard that I should avoid exercise that increases my cortisol, for example, HIIT/Crossfit/anything that increases my heart rate too much. My PCP also recommended I stop lifting heavy weights, she said this could increase my testosterone. Could I keep lifting heavy just as long as I slow down and give myself enough time to keep my heart rate low and steady? I don't want to give up my “gains”! I don't need crazy exercise classes, but I don't want to restrict myself to only do yoga, walking, or very light weight training. Please help! Thank you! Carol Ann: Thank you for helping us with your podcasts. I have learned so much. I would like your advice as to which blue light blocking filters for TV to buy. They are widely available now, even on Amazon, but I need help sorting through which really helps, for their value. I am working on improving sleep with blue light blocking, as blue light can prevent melatonin from being produced. Thank you Carol Ann: Hi Dr C, Thank you for teaching me health care info with your podcasts. You have made a real impact. I have a breast cancer screening question. For many years, mammograms were recommended, where radiation is used to make an image to screen for breast tumors. Now, there's a movement to use sonograms to screen the breasts instead. This seems like a safer plan, but I can't find any studies comparing these options. One company that uses this is HerScan. Is this reasonable or a bad plan? Thank you for tuning into today's Cabral HouseCall and be sure to check back tomorrow where we answer more of our community's questions! - - - Show Notes and Resources: StephenCabral.com/2864 - - - Get a FREE Copy of Dr. Cabral's Book: The Rain Barrel Effect - - - Join the Community & Get Your Questions Answered: CabralSupportGroup.com - - - Dr. Cabral's Most Popular At-Home Lab Tests: > Complete Minerals & Metals Test (Test for mineral imbalances & heavy metal toxicity) - - - > Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test (Test for 75 biomarkers including yeast & bacterial gut overgrowth, as well as vitamin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism Test (Discover your complete thyroid, adrenal, hormone, vitamin D & insulin levels) - - - > Complete Food Sensitivity Test (Find out your hidden food sensitivities) - - - > Complete Omega-3 & Inflammation Test (Discover your levels of inflammation related to your omega-6 to omega-3 levels) - - - Get Your Question Answered On An Upcoming HouseCall: StephenCabral.com/askcabral - - - Would You Take 30 Seconds To Rate & Review The Cabral Concept? The best way to help me spread our mission of true natural health is to pass on the good word, and I read and appreciate every review!
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The Maladjusted Misfits dig into episode number two. Ross finds out his ex-wife, Not-Carol, is pregnant. Rachel returns her engagement ring to Barry. Monica becomes stressed when Elliot Gould and Christina Pickles show up as her and Ross's parents! What could Jo & Adam think of these events?The One to Follow Misfits on Facebook: The One Where We Talk about FriendsThe One to Visit Misfits on Instagram: The One Where We Talk about FriendsThe One to Email The Misfits: themaladjustedmisfits@gmail.com
Founder Gina Lamanna is not only a fashion stylist and entrepreneur, but also a mother of two girls who triumphed over breast cancer. Her personal journey began at age 41 when, after encountering two false-negative mammograms and a misdiagnosis, she detected her own breast cancer through self-examination. This experience served as the inspiration behind her initiative, The Fondle Project. Gina Lamanna's battle with breast cancer propelled her to channel her love for fashion into a meaningful cause for fellow women. She firmly believes that fashion can play a pivotal role in the recovery of breast cancer survivors. By embracing and celebrating their bodies, these survivors can rediscover their self-assurance, femininity, and sensuality. Lamanna is committed to raising awareness about early detection methods such as regular self-examinations and advocating for oneself. Her goal is to empower younger women to establish a profound connection with their bodies and overall well-being. Within her community, she has brought together resilient women who lead vibrant lives, refusing to let cancer define them. Lamanna acknowledges that cancer's impact knows no bounds and forever alters its survivors. However, she views it as a single chapter in a broader life story that remains under their control. Resources: The Fondle Project Website and Instagram Sonocine in Santa Monica, CA -- Automated Whole-Breast Ultrasound Share Your Story Make Boobs Real Again eBook
Welcome, to episode #77 of The Exploring Antinatalism Podcast! Today, I'm speaking with the author of several fascinating papers on the subject of Antinatalism including, Between Iron Skies and Copper Earth: Antinatalism and the Death of God, Wailing from the Heights of Velleity: A Strong Case for Antinatalism in these Trying Times, A Sonogram of the Dark Side of the Dao: The Possibility of Antinatalism in Daoism, amongst others - Robbert Zandbergen!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhONcOzlsjs
On today's podcast episode, I'm talking about preparing for embryo transfer. I find that it's helpful to think about embryo transfer the same way you might think about having a very special guest over for dinner. What are you going to do if you have a very special person over? You're going to make sure everything is absolutely perfect. When it comes to preparing for an embryo transfer, you want to take the same approach. Your metaphorical home in the house analogy is your uterus. The devastation of doing more tests and finding out that something might be wrong that you have to fix is kind of a pain, but the devastation of going through a transfer that doesn't work is also pretty darn awful. Because I work so hard to help families, if I can do anything to prevent someone from not experiencing the devastation of a negative embryo transfer, I'm going to do everything possible to clean up that house and make sure it's perfect. What I recommend is that people do 3 tests before embryo transfer to make sure your uterus is absolutely perfect prior to your embryo transfer.They are: Hysteroscopy Saline Infusion, Sonogram, and Hysterosalpingogram. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Do you have questions about IVF, and what to expect? Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, June 26, 2023 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom. Looking for the best products to support you while you're TTC? Get Dr. Aimee's brand new Conception Kit here. Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org where you can schedule a consultation. Other ways to connect: Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips Join Egg Whisperer School Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates
Season 1, Episode 2 of Friends, "The One With The Sonogram At The End", premiered on September 29, 1994. It was Written By Marta Kauffman & David Crane and Directed By James Burrows. Ross's lesbian ex-wife is pregnant with his child, and he doesn't like her choice of last name for the baby. Elsewhere, Rachel finds out that her ex-fiancé went on what would have been their honeymoon with her maid of honor. Send in any questions, comments, feedback or criticisms to The Postman: 1. On Twitter @asinensky @achester99 @PPPGFriends 2. By Email curbpostman@gmail.com 3. By filling out this form Give us a 5 Star Rating and Review --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pretty-good-friends/support
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When you are managing a patient in cardiac arrest, do you turn to bedside ultrasound? EMRA*Cast host Dustin Slagle, MD, talks to ultrasound guru Michael Gottlieb, MD, RDMS, about when you should, how it can be useful, and the best way to incorporate POCUS into the plan.
Although the first time ultrasound was used for clinical reasons was in 1956, the incorporation of ultrasound in the Emergency Department is relatively new. In this episode, EMRA*Cast host Dr. Lizzii Le (@LizziiLeMed) get tips from Dr. Avila (@UltrasoundMD @coreultrasound) on the best way to incorporate ultrasound in the ED.
S1 Episode 2 has arrived! The One with the Sonogram. This episode exposes Tiana and Natalie's true Italian opinions, as well as some fun behind the scenes cast facts you may not have known! Hosts: Tiana Wasinger and Natalie NovotnyInstagram: @thepivotpodEmail: donttakemywind@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On today's podcast episode, I'm talking about preparing for embryo transfer. I find that it's helpful to think about embryo transfer the same way you might think about having a very special guest over for dinner. What are you going to do if you have a very special person over? You're going to make sure everything is absolutely perfect. When it comes to preparing for an embryo transfer, you want to take the same approach. Your metaphorical home in the house analogy is your uterus. The devastation of doing more tests and finding out that something might be wrong that you have to fix is kind of a pain, but the devastation of going through a transfer that doesn't work is also pretty darn awful. Because I work so hard to help families, if I can do anything to prevent someone from not experiencing the devastation of a negative embryo transfer, I'm going to do everything possible to clean up that house and make sure it's perfect. What I recommend is that people do 3 tests before embryo transfer to make sure your uterus is absolutely perfect prior to your embryo transfer.They are: Hysteroscopy Saline Infusion, Sonogram, and Hysterosalpingogram. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Do you have questions about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, December 5th, 2022 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom. Click to find The Egg Whisperer Show podcast on your favorite podcasting app. Watch videos of Dr. Aimee answer Ask the Egg Whisperer Questions on YouTube. Sign up for The Egg Whisperer newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.
A Toddler mysteriously vanished in Ocala Florida with little to no leads. His mother drove through the Ocala National Forest in the hours before his disappearance but why? Was she there for target practice? something more sinister? What about the police officer related to the toddler that is currently on death row? Sonogram pictures in the dumpster? A suicide?! Follow us through this story that leaves us with really only one question why did Trenton Duckett go missing? If you have any information contact the national center for missing and exploited children. SPONSORED BY: Ghostbed.com | Code: WOLFPACK - 35% off USCCA.com/wolfpack | Code: WOLFPACK SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Ayla had her last doctor's appointment for her pregnancy yesterday. What about her sonogram caused her doctor to say "I've never seen a baby do that before"?
A new album from Tapes and Topographies dropped last week and as expected it is very good. Tapes & Topographies is one of my favorite ambient artists so I asked if they would do a guest mix. And I am happy to present "A Faint Resemblance". I'm stealing this background info from friend of the blog, Harry Towell over at Whitelabrecs. "Tapes and Topographies is US based artist Todd Gautreau, who has had music releases on labels such as Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own imprint, Simulacra. His project has been active since 2014 following his previous alias Tear Ceremony and he also produces a downtempo as Sonogram." This mix hits the sweet spot for me - the perfect combo of dusty noise and loops and ambience to create a dreamy, meandering mix. If you like that kind of sound and enjoy the mix the definitely check the new Tapes and Topographies album. Here's the link: https://tapesandtopographies.bandcamp.com/album/modalities Here is a list of all the albums used in this mix in the order in which they appear: https://tapesandtopographies.bandcamp.com/album/modalities https://rbeny.bandcamp.com/album/seafoam-dust https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/hosts-of-living-forms https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/album/holds https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/color-of-time https://andrewtasselmyer.bandcamp.com/album/vantage-points https://jamesoslandaudio.bandcamp.com/album/tomosla-a-small-town-in-the-mountains-released-via-shimmering-moods https://tapesandtopographies.bandcamp.com/album/modalities https://halftribe.bandcamp.com/album/archipelago https://sonogram1.bandcamp.com/album/cubists https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/sound-space-variations https://www.amazon.com/Music-Installations-CD-Brian-Eno/dp/B07BF854N4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QMZJTL6540A2&keywords=brian+eno+music+for+installations&qid=1651968434&s=music&sprefix=brian+eno+music+for+insta%2Cpopular%2C78&sr=1-1 Thanks Todd for a great mix! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Tapes and Topographies - With that being said (Modalities 2022) 06:25 r beny - Ektar 100 (Seafoam & Dust 2020) 10:00 The Lifted Index - Chronologic Moss (Host of Living Forms 2021) 13:00 Jogging House - Strangers (Holds 2021) 17:35 Color of Time - Color of Time (Color of Time 2021) 20:05 Andrew Tasselmeyer - Becoming (Vantage Points 2018) 22:22 Tomosla - Possum (A Small Town In The Mountains 2021) 25:20 Tapes and Topographies - Verticals (Modalities 2022) 29:10 Halftribe - Imperfect (Archipelago 2020) 35:05 Sonogram - Certainly Obscured (Cubists 2012) 41:10 zaké - Variation (Sound Space Variations 2022) 44:25 Brian Eno - Chamber Lightness (Lightness 1997) 56:34 end
On today's podcast episode, I'm talking about preparing for embryo transfer. I find that it's helpful to think about embryo transfer the same way you might think about having a very special guest over for dinner. What are you going to do if you have a very special person over? You're going to make sure everything is absolutely perfect. When it comes to preparing for an embryo transfer, you want to take the same approach. Your metaphorical home in the house analogy is your uterus. The devastation of doing more tests and finding out that something might be wrong that you have to fix is kind of a pain, but the devastation of going through a transfer that doesn't work is also pretty darn awful. Because I work so hard to help families, if I can do anything to prevent someone from not experiencing the devastation of a negative embryo transfer, I'm going to do everything possible to clean up that house and make sure it's perfect. What I recommend is that people do 3 tests before embryo transfer to make sure your uterus is absolutely perfect prior to your embryo transfer.They are: Hysteroscopy Saline Infusion, Sonogram, and Hysterosalpingogram. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Do you have questions about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, February 21, 2022 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom. Click to find The Egg Whisperer Show podcast on your favorite podcasting app. Watch videos of Dr. Aimee answer Ask the Egg Whisperer Questions on YouTube. Sign up for The Egg Whisperer newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.
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Nick was shocked to find a sonogram waiting for him when he got home.
Reno the Leopard Dies We probably can't use a lot of this, until after Bengali dies, so that the circus doesn't take him out of spite, but here is the background on Reno, so you know it for his tribute. Maybe you can find a nicer way to say some of this. I was lying to him and he knew it. I was saying, “It's going to be alright, but my voice faltered.” He couldn't see me, so his other senses were heightened. This was going to be a long trip and if he didn't stop pacing around in circles, he was going to be bruised and bloodied from hitting the sides of the cage. I asked him to think of a time when he was happiest. He instantly thought back to that day in March of 1995 when all was good in his world. He was suckling at his mother's breast; kneading the warm milk from her with his tiny, freckled paws. His mother lovingly groomed his golden fur and tiny black spots with a big, raspy tongue. She was assuring him then, as I was telling him now, that we would protect him, but we both failed. We had both been conned. Within just a few short days of giving birth, his mother had to step outside the den to drink and eat so that she could sustain her little cub. As soon as she did, the door slammed shut, locking her out and sealing her cub's fate. He would be bottle raised, by some well meaning, but ignorant young girl, who would be told that he had to be taken from his mother, because she had abandoned him. Instead of the leopard milk nature had intended him to thrive upon, he'd be fed goat's milk, reconstituted from powder, because it's cheaper, and he'd be deprived, even this poor substitute, so that he could be used as a photo prop. As a growing cub, his ancient instincts were telling him he should bite and use his claws. He should practice his stalking, pouncing and play killing because very soon he would be relying on those skills. Instead, he was smacked, kicked and his lips pinched hard against his sharp little milk teeth, to try any break him. His bottle would be with held until there was a paying customer, and they would use it to keep him quiet long enough to get their photo, and be on their way. Now they had a trophy to show others what a great bond they have with wildlife. When he outgrew this lucrative stage in his life, where people would pay by the minute to fondle him, he was sold to the circus. His betrayal meant that for the next 7 years he would perform on command…or else. I met Reno on New Year's Day in 2002. The circus trainer who “worked” the leopard was tearfully saying good-bye to him, after Reno had bounded from his barren beast wagon, into the lushly landscaped, lakeside enclosure at our sanctuary. I was told that Reno had been trained to ride in a chariot, pulled by horses, and that his act had been canceled, so he was no longer needed. I heard someone say how sad it was that this trainer loved Reno so much, and now had to give him up. I snorted silently to myself thinking, “Those crocodile tears had nothing to do with love for this leopard. Those were tears of guilt.” “Guilt for the years of cracking a whip down across Reno's beautiful face for even thinking about pouncing on those prancing tails of the horses in front of him. Guilt for keeping this magnificent, intelligent animal in a barred circus wagon for the past 7 years. Guilt for taking the crowd's applause and taking pleasure in being thought to be a big cat whisperer, when he knew that the positive reinforcement, that he claimed to be the key to his success, was just the smoke and mirrors used to hide the fact that beatings and deprivation were what really kept Reno under control. And the worst guilt of all, was in knowing that the cats grow up, and when they do, they won't tolerate circus life any more, so you have to dump them somewhere and start the abuse all over again on some innocent little cub.” In the year 2000 I'd been working on a contract with the circus for over two years, to try and get the last 19 tigers and this one leopard, off the road and into permanent sanctuary. Back then a tiger costed us $7,500 a year, just in direct costs, (now it's 10k a year) and we had never had a year where we had been able to break even, so there was no way we could take on the burden of $150,000 a year. The deal we struck was that the circus would pay for a cage and food for their cats to come here, and if their cats needed a vet, they would send the circus vet. In return, I would not use their name when I rail against circus acts that use big cats. They said they were getting out of the tiger business, and I was happy to provide a loving home for their last remaining cats. I had no money for a lawyer, and the circus had teams of them. The contract was not the iron clad agreement I thought it was, when it came to their vow to “get out of the tiger business.” In fact, that line somehow never even made it into the final draft. While they did stop breeding and buying tigers, they skirted the intent of our agreement by hiring acts that owned their own big cats. To their credit, they did try a year with no tigers, but the public, ignorant, or uncaring of the inherent abuse in circus life, insisted that wild animals perform for their amusement. This was frustrating, but not nearly as gut wrenching as having to deal with the circus vets. Circus vet don't last long. In the past 15 years, I've lost count of how many we have had to deal with. My feeling is that these are vets who couldn't run their own practice, who have sold out to the blood money of the circus. They provide a sense of legitimacy to the circus that would be totally lacking otherwise. But, it turns out, I had too. While I was restrained from using the circus' name, for fear of them coming to take their cats back, they used the sanctuary's good name in their spin literature. The circus used us to assure the public that they could be guilt free in bringing their kids to see wild animals being forced to perform, because in the end there would be our wonderful sanctuary awaiting the retirees. Any vet, with just a smattering of self respect, can't abide by being used this way for long. It didn't take long for me to figure out that their vets knew a whole lot less than ours did about cats, and I would much rather have been able to rely upon our own vets, but my contract required that the circus cats had to see the circus vets. I don't know exactly what the connection is, but the circus vets all seem to work out of the University of Florida in Gainesville. Despite the fact that everything necessary to diagnose and treat a big cat is right here, they would always insist that any of the ailing circus cats at Big Cat Rescue be loaded up into trucks and shipped, in the middle of the night, by circus carnies to the University. The circus vet would then make a big parade of having a cool animal to work on. Students would oooh and aaah over the rare cat and the seemingly, all knowing circus vet who would hold court. After the first lion I had ever taken to this facility, back in the 90's had been kept sedated for over 5 hours, and used as a teaching tool, I had loathed the prospect of ever having to come there again. His name was Mufasa, and he had died from the ordeal. Now, every time a circus cat had to be taken in for diagnostics, I groaned inside, knowing the fate that awaited them. What made it so much worse now though, was that we have all of the tools necessary right here on the sanctuary grounds, but the circus vets can't pretend to know it all here, and would never be allowed to keep a cat sedated for so long, while they lectured and pontificated over the ailing cat. I understand the necessity of hands on learning, and our vets are good about teaching our volunteers during procedures here, but none of us would risk a cat's life by adding on time under sedation to do that. For the past 15 years our keepers and our vets have made sure Reno had the very best of care, but now he was acting as if he couldn't see. Just last week he was bounding around his grassy enclosure and got all excited at the sight of a blood ‘cicle coming his way, so this blindness was sudden. He began sleeping a lot more than usual, and vomited what little food he was eating. We would happily have diagnosed and treated him here, but were not allowed because the contract required he be seen by a circus vet instead. How I wanted to ignore the contract, but doing so might result in the last two cats, still living from the original 20, being sent back to living in circus wagons. That's how I had found them living back in the 90's; tiny circus wagons, pulled into a circle, with no shade and nothing for the cats to do but lay on a hard, wooden floor all day and peer out from behind the bars of their beast wagons. Within five minutes of meeting the man in charge of the elephants and tigers who were all tucked out of sight, in the small town of Williston, FL, he proclaimed how much he hated tigers. It was clear, from the way they were being kept that he was telling the truth. USDA had cited the circus for years, and these cats who wouldn't perform any longer were just a liability. Years later this circus we be hit with the largest fine ever leveled by USDA against a wild animal exhibitor, and that was just for the abuses that were so obvious they couldn't be overlooked. When Reno arrived in Tampa, his tail looked like 40 miles of bad road and was raw and oozing at the tip. The handler told me that tigers had bitten his tail too many times and the vets had sewed it back on, but each time it created a kink to one side or the other where tissue had been missing. Circus acts are on the road for most of the year and the wagons are chained, side by side, in dark, smelly trailers and train cars. If a cat isn't always on guard, his neighbor can reach out a paw and pull the long tail into his mouth in an instant. All of the cats in the circus were tigers, except Reno and he took the brunt of the abuse from his fellow performers who were 3 times his size. Reno's years at Big Cat Rescue have been full of trees to climb, hills to survey his territory from, keepers who adored him, enrichment to shred and operant conditioning to keep his mind stimulated. Unlike punishment training, operant conditioning here consists of rewards for doing the things we need, like leaning up against the fence for annual vaccinations. Because it is only reward based, the cats know they can choose to participate, or walk away. Given that choice, they often make us plan vaccines for another day, when they are in the mood. That kind of training won't work if, “the show must go on.” Apparently, the circus couldn't find anyone to drive Reno to Gainesville, so I agreed to do it myself. As much as I hated what surely awaited him there, he definitely needed diagnostics done if we were going to save his life. As expected, they kept him sedated for more than 7 hours, from what I could tell of cryptic messages relayed from the University vet to our vet, to me. What was even more maddening was that the circus vet wasn't there, and apparently had no intention of being there, despite insisting that we come to her. She just instructed the young vet, who spoke French, but little English, by phone. She could have done that with our vets and saved Reno this long trip. They wouldn't allow me to stay with Reno. They never allow me to see what they do to the circus cats. It wouldn't be good for the outside world to know what really goes on behind closed doors. I waited in the van all day, until they finally notified me that it wasn't cancer, but they wanted to keep him (on display, no doubt) at the clinic, for his follow up treatment. The vet said his liver was riddled with ulcers and that the MRI, CT Scan, X-rays and Sonogram did not give them any reason for his sudden blindness; but he was completely blind. We can accommodate blind cats. 29 of our cats are over the age of 20 and blindness just comes with old age, but i asked if they could reverse the damage to his liver. The vet said it might be treatable, but not reversible. She said they would culture the liver biopsy and treat him, as if it were hepatitis, until they got the culture back. That could be several days, especially since this was a week end. I would much rather have taken him back to the sanctuary, where he would be surrounded by those who know and love him for this supportive care, but was reminded that he isn't my cat and the circus is in control of what happens to him. In all the years of caring for Reno, I never once saw him do it, but his tail bore the evidence, that in his solitary moments, Reno dreamed of his mother. He remembered how it felt to be safely snuggled up against her. He suckles on his own tail, sometimes until it bleeds, in order to hold firm that memory of what it was like to feel safe and loved. No matter how much we tried to provide distraction to Reno from the fact that he was born in a cage, would always live in a cage and would die in a cage, he always knew that he was born a leopard and that his life should have been his own. Two days later, Monday Feb 23 at 11:36 am, Dr. G (the circus vet) told Dr. Wynn that Reno wasn't doing any better and felt he should be euthanized. Meanwhile I had emailed Tom on Feb 22 asking, “Dear Thomas, Who do I need to talk to at x about having Reno Leopard (age 20) and Bengali Tiger (age 20+) donated to us and x released from their ongoing care? These cats are way too old to keep hauling them back and forth on a 5 hour, round trip, to Gainesville for diagnostics, when we have two big cats vets and all of that equipment here on site, or very close by. For the cats, Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue “ He responded on the 23rd: “Carole: We are not interested in donating these animals and prefer to keep the boarding agreement in place. However, we would have no objections to you providing such vet care on site or nearby if and when your veterinarians believe that is appropriate. We would request that your veterinarians keep us apprised of any activities in that regard. Please have Dr. Wynn contact Dr. G to discuss the details. Tom x” Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/ I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet. You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.
The doctor has been trying to show you in the sonogram how cute your baby's tiny fingers are looking and how perfect his nose is, while all that you can see are black and white blobs? If that's you then this episode is for you! Come and join Rj Ruchi as she makes sense out of these prenatal scans, tells you what to expect each time you meet the sonologist and help you see your baby in that alien on the scan pics!
Kelly Hurd has been pitching us to producers for Discovery so I sent him footage and story lines. Some things that are always true of our surgery and vet visits: Unless you have been involved in these very tense situations, it is hard to explain how stressed out everyone is and our coping mechanism is to joke around and talk about things that have nothing to do with the work at hand as a way of being able to deal with these life and death situations. In most cases we go to the vet not knowing if we will have to make the awful decision to euthanize one of our family members, because loading a cat up and taking them offsite to a vet clinic is the last ditch option to save their lives. After 22 years of doing this, we know that there will almost never be a clear choice to make and we will almost always be burdened with making a decision that could result in lingering misery for the cat and then still having to put them out of their misery days, weeks or months later after trying every thing we can to give them a good quality of life. A lot of the editing will require you to use common sense about what is appropriate or not. Often in these videos you will hear people talking about other vet situations or clients, and unless it is about one of our other cats, that audio can't be included. The ultimate goal of these vet videos is to show the details of the surgery for vet students and make our vets look great; because they are. Some clowning around is OK to show, but it should be narrated as to why we act this way in the face of such serious business. Sometimes, while a cat is waking up, we let volunteers touch the cats, as they are never allowed to touch cats otherwise. I would not include this in your finished products though, because we do not want to encourage people to pay to touch big cats. You will see us often taking a lot of photos and videos because these kinds of surgeries are rare and documentation even more so. That is why these surgery videos could be so helpful to other cats if done well. In the videos I have sent you, this is the sequence of events, so you know what is going on. If you watch them in this same order, I won't have to duplicate such detail on latter videos, because you will know what is happening. Task List 1 Four minute or less video of the surgery or vet visit with no graphic imagery. 1 Twenty minute video with the graphic imagery; suitable for both a vet student and the public, who is fully prepared for what they will see. WARNING SLIDES: Be sure to warn viewers before showing something like surgery both in a warning slide and in the early part of the accompanying text. Vet Joseph Lion. http://bigcatrescue.org/joseph/ Joseph stopped eating and stopped taking his pain meds, so we sedated him for diagnostics. Due to his age (16) we didn't want to risk a long trip to the University of Florida, if we could assess him here, so we invited Dr. Fay Hererro, DVM, from the Odessa Equine Clinic, to bring a portable X-ray machine. Dr. Justin Boorstein invited Dr. Tim Jones to help w/ anesthesia. They drew blood, gave fluids, administered antibiotics and did the X-rays they could, but the portable X-ray machine was just not good enough for abdominal X-rays. Joseph did not respond to the antibiotics and fluids and continued to refuse food and water, so we asked the Humane Society of Tampa Bay if we could use their X-ray and Sonogram machines, after hours, and took him in for more X-rays, blood work, fluids, a longer lasting antibiotic and a sonogram. Nothing of note was found in all of these diagnostics, except a possibility of neoplasia, which are masses in the abdomen. We had hoped that the antibiotics, fluids and appetite stimulants would help get him up and eating again, but they didn't. We discussed euthanasia, with both vets, and Dr. Wynn suggested a last ditch effort of injecting him with a steroid. It had been 8 days since he had eaten anything and 3 days since he drank water on his own, so we gave that a shot. He drank for the first time, a few hours later, but still wouldn't eat. 10/31/14 On 11/1/14 Sue got him to eat just a few bites of food with his meds in them, so we held off on euthanasia, to see if he is rounding the bend. Vet Little Feather. This is the most recent vet issue. Little Feather is 21 years old. http://bigcatrescue.org/little-feather/ as was on the observation chart on Oct 10th for having a puffy chin, but we didn't see an obvious swelling and she has a rather pronounced chin anyway. Oct. 15th we could see there was an abscess and made an appointment for her to go in to the vet the next day. Her dental X-rays showed that almost all of her teeth were rotten and the jaw bones were decaying as well. Dr. Justin had to pull the teeth very gently, so as not to break her jaw. He pulled 8 teeth; her last remaining canine tooth and 7 others and was about done. There was one more tooth, that didn't look bad on the surface, or in the X-ray, but he debated as to if he should leave it or take it, given the decay in the jaw. He decided to pull it and found that it had been the cause of the abscess and was in very bad shape. Had he not pulled it, we would have had to bring her right back in a few days or weeks. Good instincts! Little Feather was put on pain meds and kept in the Cat Hospital at BCR for a few days until she was eating well and ready to go back to her cage. When we opened the door of the transport cage she had been sleeping in, to let her out into her outdoor enclosure, she dragged her back foot. It looked like some neurological issue, so we crated her back up and took her in to the Ehrlich Animal Hospital where Dr. Farid Saleh, who is not our regular vet, gave her an exam and said that he believed she had thrown a blood clot that was causing neurological damage to her foot. She had no feeling in her foot. He treated her with laser therapy and sent her home with instructions for daily massages and controlled walking to help her work out the clot and regain use of the foot. 10/31/14 Little Feather is continuing to get physical therapy, such as laser therapy, and massage therapy and harness walking to keep her foot alive and hopefully dissolve the clot that is keeping her from having the ability to use her foot properly. We do not condone people having wild cats as pets and are hesitant to even show a cat in a harness, or being touched by people, but she is declawed and now has no teeth due to her old age, so we are able to give her the help she needs without risk. Vet Natasha Siberian Lynx. http://bigcatrescue.org/natasha/ Natasha is 21 years old. She has been healthy for most of her life, except a bout of seizures and dizziness in her early years that turned out to be one of the first confirmed cases of heart worms in cats. As a result we began using ivermectin monthly in all of our cats as a preventative, back in the 90's. Her recent observations by keepers were that she was breathing heavily and not hungry, so we took her in to see Dr. Wynn on Oct 30, 2014. For a 21 year old cat, her kidneys look surprisingly good, but her lungs are congested and we can see, by looking down her throat (great video of this) that half of her throat is paralyzed, so all of her breathing and eating is happening on the side that is still functioning. We did a biopsy, to see if there is a tumor that is causing the one side to be forced shut (from the pressure), but we can't see a tumor. There isn't any surgery to fix this. She is getting antibiotics to clear up the infection in her throat and lungs and that should help a lot. Getting those meds into her will be the challenge. If she will eat, that is easy to do, but if she won't then she will have to stay in the Cat Hospital for injections. She is taking her meds and eating well, so we moved her back outside 11/1/2014 Vet Simba Leopard. http://bigcatrescue.org/simba-2/ On this page is another video. In that video is a clip of Simba going to the vet.:http://bigcatrescue.org/now-big-cat-rescue-jan-11-2014/ Appx date: Jan 11, 2014 Cast, you don't have to name them. Just named here in case you want to or have title slides. Vet's should always be named or have title slides: Trapping Simba: Willow Hecht, Green Shirt Keeper, Red Hair Reddish shirt, Carole Baskin, CEO Navy shirt, Master Keeper, Jamie Veronica, President Navy shirt, Master Keeper, Gale Ingham (thin) Operation Mgr Green Shirt Keeper, Chris Poole Lifting Simba add: Green Shirt Keeper, blonde, Chelsea Feeney The long golf cart we use is named Gertie On site hospital is the: West Boensch (bench) Cat Hospital for weight so vet can sedate. Van is a 1998 Dodge Ram van that leaks, rattles and really needs to be replaced. Lifted into van to drive to vet who works in a practice about a mile away called the Ehrlich (ur-lick) Animal Hospital. Vet techs help offload Simba. Vet is Dr. Liz Wynn, who has been our vet for over a decade. She comes twice a week at no charge to do house calls. We do have to pay for X-rays, blood work, drugs, etc. Simba is sedated and then gently touched around his eyes to see if he has a blink reflex. Cats can fool you by being very still and then attacking, but they can't control an involuntary blink reflex, so we always check to be sure they are really asleep before reaching in for them. We double check his weight and wrap him in a blanket (burrito style) because it is safer, if he wakes suddenly and carrying a sleeping big cat is like trying to carry 100 plus pounds of liver. We draw blood every time a cat is sedated. It gives us a benchmark to use in their record and we check for infections diseases, kidney function (failure) because our cats are all so old and in varying stages of renal failure. Vet manipulates joints and listens and feels for “crunching” that indicate calcium build up of arthritis. All of our old, gimpy cats are on supplements for their joints and some are on stronger meds. Palpitates for masses as cancer is the second most common cat killer (after old age destroys their kidneys). Even though Simba is sedated, Jamie, Gale or Carole usually hangs onto the scruff during most of the procedures, just in case he wakes up suddenly. Leopards are the biggest cats that a typical dog / cat clinic can Xray. The most dangerous moments at the vet are during the Xray because none of the BCR staff can be in the room. At appx 34 min. Dr Wynn expresses frustration that the X-rays aren't showing us why Simba is so wobbly. He had been falling over and acting disoriented. She's worried that he will hurt himself if he falls off or tries to jump down and suggests longer ramps. Part of his problem is that he has gained 50 lbs since being prescribed medication, so they aren't as effective. It's really hard to tell the weight of a cat, because they are so muscular and have such loose skin. You can see and hear dogs and I hate this part of going to the vet. Cats should never have to tolerate that and even asleep, I think they can hear us, and the dogs, and that is stressful. It is one more reason we need a full service vet clinic on site; so we never have to expose our cats to dogs barking. Dr Wynn is getting better about speaking up for the camera, but on these old ones you will probably really have to bump up the volume, while killing background noises, to hear her. We drive Simba back to our on site hospital to let him recover and as soon as he can safely be returned to his Cat-a-Tat he is delivered by Green Shirt Matt, Green Shirt Nanci, Gale and Jamie. How long in the Cat Hospital is usually dependent on making sure they are eating well, taking their meds and are stable. Vet Nik Tiger Eye Surgery. http://bigcatrescue.org/nikita-tiger/ Sedated, but vomited. We try to fast them before sedation, but sometimes they still have food from the night before in their stomachs, or from morning meds. Sedation makes them nauseous and they almost always will have dry heaves or vomit and doing so in their sleep can choke them to death. The options aren't good if a 700 lb cat is choking because there isn't much we can do about it without someone getting killed if he isn't asleep fully. Tests blink reflex w/ stick. Load onto Gertie Cast: Dr. Justin Boorstein (boor-steen) Dr. Liz Wynn Master Keeper, Jamie Veronica, President Master Keeper, Gale Ingham (thin) Operation Mgr Green Shirt Keeper, Chris Poole Yellow Shirt Keeper Sharon Yellow Shirt (maybe red) Keeper Darren Yellow Shirt (maybe red) Keeper Jen Navy Shirt, Master Keeper Regina Yellow Shirt (maybe green) Keeper Lynda 9-10 people to carry Nik on a specially made stretcher Our scales only go to 500 so we have to distribute Nik over two of them as he is 700 lbs. Dr. Tammy Miller is the eye specialist and she brought her own vet techs to the sanctuary to do this procedure in the West Boensch (bench) Cat Hospital. Because this was such delicate surgery, Nik was restrained with ropes. Sometimes cats can have seizures under anesthesia, so we didn't want him to kick the vet's hand while she is cutting on his eye. Nik's eye trouble started the same way most big cats' eye troubles start. They are pulled from their mothers when just days or hours old; put on an insufficient diet of puppy or kitten milk replacer and then have flashes go off in their sensitive eyes for the first 4 months of their lives, until they are too big to use. Then they are discarded or warehoused and usually fed a deficient diet and denied vet care until they die. Nutritional cataracts are very common in cubs who were used as pay to play props. Sometimes the lens breaks loose and can be very painful, so surgery is needed to repair the eye. Make sure there are warning slides before graphic images. We give fluids to help the cats eliminate the drugs we used to sedate them. These are given SubQ (under the skin) rather than IV (intravenously) Sometimes you will see us squeezing the bag to give the fluids as quickly as we can, other times, like this one, there is a compression cuff (white) that squeezes the bag as we use the hand pump. The reason we are in such a hurry is because anything can go wrong at any time and we may have to wake the cat up suddenly if they start to arrest, so we want to get the fluids on board fast. We draw blood every time a cat is sedated. It gives us a benchmark to use in their record and we check for infections diseases, kidney function (failure) because our cats are all so old and in varying stages of renal failure. Vet manipulates joints and listens and feels for “crunching” that indicate calcium build up of arthritis. All of our old, gimpy cats are on supplements for their joints and some are on stronger meds. Palpitates for masses as cancer is the second most common cat killer (after old age destroys their kidneys). Even though Simba is sedated, Jamie, Gale or Carole usually hangs onto the scruff during most of the procedures, just in case he wakes up suddenly. Dr Wynn mentions “reversing” Nik. This is an injection to reverse the drugs we gave him to sedate him and it is good to do that as soon as he is safely on gas (either a mask or tube down his throat) because having all those drugs at work and the anesthesia gas can kill them. Nik will need drops in his eyes and Gale has become expert at tricking the cats into looking up at a treat and dropping the medication into their eyes. It stings and they don't like it, so it is amazing that she can get them to do it over and over and over; usually 2-3 times a day for 10 days. Nik had been declawed and defanged by his former owner who used him as a petting prop, even as a full grown adult. She had tight collars on him and the other 5 cats rescued from there, and would chain them to the ground with chains so short they couldn't turn their heads to bite the people who would sit on their backs for photo ops. That was illegal, and she lost her USDA license, but continued to do it for years because no one took any action against her. Nik will wake up in the transport wagon. We can't leave any bedding in there, or he will eat it. Whenever our cats are asleep we micro chip them, if they haven't had one before. While the cat is sleeping, Big Cat Rescuers take the opportunity to mow, landscape and do other cage enhancements to the cat's enclosure. There is a separate video called Vet Nik Tiger Wheezing. You may want to add this to the end of the video and say that his eye has healed well and Nik has been doing fine, except that he has begun wheezing when he gets excited. He needs to be X-rayed, but the only machine big enough is two hours away and he is too old and had too much trouble breathing to make the trip. Thanks to some wonderful donors we have a new X-ray machine but need a building big enough to put it in. There is another video file called Vet Dr Liz Wynn. You may want to include this from it: Dr. Wynn is a volunteer vet and has been with us for over a decade. She shows how we put drops in Nik Tiger's eye and she describes the coloration and procedure a bit. Vet Arthur Tiger Dental. http://bigcatrescue.org/arthur/ Date of dental: 12/9/12 Arthur was rescued in 2011 but was in no shape for the prolonged surgery necessary for a root canal. By Dec. 2012 we asked Dr. Peak to come to Big Cat Rescue to help Arthur and his brother Andre, who had suffered broken teeth since 2003. Cast: Dr. Michael Peak http://www.thepetdentist.com/meet-the-doctors.php Dr. Justin Boorstein (boor-steen) Dr. Liz Wynn Master Keeper, Jamie Veronica, President Master Keeper, Gale Ingham (thin) Operation Mgr Green Shirt Keeper, Chris Poole Green Shirt Keeper, Angie Green Shirt Partner Jeff (who usually stands by with a gun and dart gun in case of emergency) You may find some video of trying to get Arthur into his feeding lock out later, out of sequence. It was a little confusing, but they finally gave up on him going in the transport and managed to get him into his feeding area where Jamie sedated him. Jamie is our best person on the “jab stick” which is needle on the end of a pole that injects the drugs on impact. It makes a loud noise and the cats usually spin and lash out at the person doing it, but Jamie has nerves of steel and manages to retract the pole without the cat biting it. It's better than a dart, because darts have to stick in the cat and stay there until the drugs dispense. If the cat eats the dart, that is very bad. Board is held across cat because they can raise up very unexpectedly and bite. Protecting the vet is our main objective. Backstory: Arthur and Andre broke their canine teeth off during transport in 2003 from NJ to TX the first time they were rescued. The sanctuary that took them in didn't give them dental care for 10 years and went bankrupt in 2011. That is when we rescued Arthur, Andre and their sister Amanda, but they were in bad shape and not capable of undergoing extensive surgery. Not in this video, but for reference; as soon as they were strong enough after their arrival, Andre (not Arthur) was sedated due to the fact that his untreated, broken teeth (since 2003) were obviously causing pain and he couldn't eat. He died on the table during the dental surgery, but there were 5 vets there and they said, “No one is going to the light with five vets in the room!” They brought him around, but decided to wait on doing the other two canines until he was stronger. I don't know if there ever was any video of that. I can't find it. Arthur had a seizure after being sedated. This happens maybe 5 percent of the time and can be life threatening. We use a cocktail of drugs to be as easy on the cat as possible, but every cat is different and reacts differently. Arthur reacted very badly and scared us even further because he would hold his breath for such long periods of time that we often feared he was dead. Graphic warnings through out are needed. Back to Arthur. Dr. Peak performed a root canal. They drew blood to check for feline viruses, infections and kidney levels. This lets us know if there are underlying issues to deal with and gives us comparisons for latter life levels. We draw blood every time a cat is sedated. It gives us a benchmark to use in their record and we check for infections diseases, kidney function (failure) because our cats are all so old and in varying stages of renal failure. During the root canal Dr Peak finds a shard of plastic lodged inside the tooth against the nerve. You can just imagine how painful that must have been. It was probably from a toy or water bucket that was not tiger proof. While this was pretty rare, to see a shard of plastic embedded inside the tooth, it is very common for people to give big cats toys and water buckets that are too flimsy. The cats bite off portions, which end up lodging in their stomachs and intestines, causing internal hemorrhaging and a painful death. The reason people do that is that it is cheaper than buying items that are safe for the cats. The gun they point at the tiger's face is an X-ray gun. Dr Peak takes X-rays in the field and even brings along a developing tank to monitor his progress as he goes. Arthur gets IV fluids to give him an added boost and to flush the sedation drugs out of his system when he awakes. At about minute 35 Dr Liz Wynn gives a good overview of what we are doing and why. These are usually at the end of the videos that I give you, because we don't know what is going to happen in the beginning, but you can use parts of it earlier in the story to illustrate. Dr. Peak packs Arthurs root canals with antibiotics to help kill any infection. We move Arthur into the transport wagon to wake up. As soon as surgeries are over the cats are “reversed” ( they are reversed as soon as they go on gas, if they are masked or intubated ) Cats can wake up very quickly as soon as they are reversed, and / or taken off gas. They can easily take off a limb with a groggy bite so we are very quick to get them into a controlled area so they can wake up fully. The next really dangerous part of any sedation, is the waking up. Even though they can wake up quickly, they also can go back to sleep and never wake up. We do everything we can to get them sternal (laying on their stomachs with their heads up) as soon as possible after sedation. We call their names, tickle their ears and toes (they hate that) rock the cage, bang on the bars and totally obnoxious. It is so tempting to just let them enjoy a good long sleep after their ordeal, but that could be the death of them, so we have to be the bad guys and wake them up. Another thing that kills many exotic cats is hyperthermia from anesthesia. This causes their bodies to overheat and can just cook them to death inside of a few minutes. The whole time we are waking them up we are looking for signs of hyperthermia (opposite of hypothermia where you get too cold and die) If they spike a temperature we are suddenly in a life or death position of deciding if the cat is groggy enough to pull them out and put them in a tub of ice water, or, in the case of a tiger, if it will be safe to open the door and start packing them in ice. There is always this dilemma going on of doing what will save the cat without undue risk to the people trying to save the cat, because if the cat wakes up, someone is going to get hurt or die. Cats don't understand; as much as we would like to believe they do, when you are trying to save their lives. There have certainly been what appears to be exceptions, like removing a piece of food from a choking cat's mouth and having them not turn right around and bite me for reaching down their throat, but I think by and large I've just been lucky. Back to Arthur. Several hours lapse between the time of his waking and release back into his Cat-a-Tat, and I think there may even be some film out of sequence, at this point, although I am not sure how that could have happened. Dr. Peak did the root canals on both Arthur and Andre on this day, so we would have been sedating Arthur, doing his surgery, putting him back in the transport to wake up and then sedating Andre, doing his surgery, and then putting him back in his enclosure. The easiest way to tell these brothers apart is that Andre has a notch in his ear, courtesy of his brother. Waking up from anesthesia can be ugly. Arthur thrashed around a bit waking up. What most people don't know, when they take their pets to the vet, is that they are kept away as the animals are going down and coming up from anesthesia, or they would completely freak out. The cats bang their heads on the bars and thrash around like wild. Unless they are very, very sick, they don't usually go under easily. Vet Andre Tiger Dental. http://bigcatrescue.org/andre/. Date of dental: 12/9/12 Gale distracts Andre so Jamie can sedate him using the pole syringe. We often put a blanket over the head of the sedated animal so that if they wake suddenly, they feel secure in the dark and cannot land a bite as easily. You will often see Jeff Kremer, our Director of Donor Appreciation (tall, slim, bald, usually wearing khakis) in our surgery videos because he is our marksman and in charge of darting or killing the tiger depending on what life threatening event happens. As noted in Arthur's dental info, this is Andre's second dental. He died and was revived during our first attempt several months ago, so now we are trying to finish the repair to his four broken canine teeth. We were told that in 2003, when Wild Animal Orphanage rescued him from Tigers Only in NJ, he broke off all four canines on the bars of the transport cage. Wild Animal Orphanage took in 23 tigers during that rescue operation and was unable to fund all of the medical needs. Andre suffered with exposed nerves in his teeth for the next 8 years. When WAO went bankrupt we helped orchestrate the rescue of the final 7 tigers there, thanks to financial help from an amazing couple. Four went to Carolina Tiger Rescue and Andre, Arthur and Amanda came to us. Andre has a growth on one of his back legs, so we used the opportunity to do a biopsy. Andre's blood pressure began dropping dramatically 107/72 so he was reversed, since he was on gas. His temperature dropped significantly as well, so we covered him in an electric heating blanket. He was fighting sedation so hard that we had to give him more drugs. It is always such a fine line to balance between making sure they feel no pain and don't hurt anyone and yet not killing them with kindness. This video shows the X-ray developing tank. Red glass tank. At the end the vets gave Andre straight oxygen through the mask to help him flush the anesthetic gas from his lungs. This will help him wake more quickly. Again we stimulate him in every way we can to get him up and sternal as quickly as possible. King Tut and Zulu Hybrid Cats. 10/16/2012 http://bigcatrescue.org/king-tut/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka3Xu1cEEq4 You can scrape video from here to use in this video if you want http://bigcatrescue.org/hybrid-facts/ We almost never take in hybrid cats because they do not require permits to possess, so any cat lover can take them in and we need to save our cage space for cats who require permits that most domestic cat rescue groups don't have. The hardest part of turning them away is that breeders will try to get their hands on any hybrids they can because people buy them over the Internet or at cat shows and don't know, until after they have paid thousands of dollars for them, that they spray and defecate all over everything to mark it as theirs. King Tut and Zulu had been terrorizing a neighborhood after either escaping or being turned loose by their owner, and Animal Control trapped them. A man from the Sierra Club heard about it and went to see the cats that had been brought in. He wasn't sure what they were (I think he called them Jag Cats) and called us. He brought them to us to see if we would take them. Both were thin, but King Tut was emaciated. His paw had been injured, so he probably couldn't hunt or travel as well as Zulu, plus he felt awful trying to fight off infection, so he was just wasting away. Zulu turned out to be a handful and have awful house manners, but one of our long time volunteers, Sharon Dower, asked to adopt her anyway, and we were happy that she would get a home. She was spayed first and for a while could be watched on our live web cams via UStream.tv/channel/bigcathospital King Tut responded well to antibiotics and a good diet, but he's just too dangerous for a pet home, so he will live with us forever. There is some later video of him (I don't know if I bound it into one file) where King Tut is released out into his Cat-a-Tat. All he needs now is food and love. Vet Dr Wynn. http://www.ehrlichanimalhospital.com/about-us/veterinarians/ This video can be put into other videos as needed. I don't think there is enough here for a full 20 min segment. Maybe a segment under 4 minutes as a stand alone piece. Dr. Wynn is a volunteer vet and has been with us for over a decade. She shows how we put drops in Nik Tiger's eye and she describes the coloration and procedure a bit. http://bigcatrescue.org/nikita-tiger/ We don't give Vet Tours but our vets both come out twice a week or more and will answer questions if a tour group happens by. Tonga the white serval had a nosectomy, to remove his nose, to get rid of all the cancer. That's been more than two years ago and has allowed Tonga to live as long as most of our servals usually do (17 is the average for our servals. most other places only 10-12) and he is still doing well. This shows how quickly and how far a wild cat can reach out through the bars of the cage and why we have to be so careful around them. http://bigcatrescue.org/tonga/ Jumanji the black leopard is being treated for his skin allergies. Not in this video, but we are now using a new blend of fatty acids in all of the cats' diet to help them with skin and coat condition. http://bigcatrescue.org/jumanji/ There is some previous footage on Tonga's nose. Vet Skipper Lynx May 2014. http://bigcatrescue.org/skipper/ Skipper is taken to the vet because Keepers notice that he isn't passing feces. Every day, as Keepers clean the cages, they note food left over, the feces condition (runny, grassy, missing), vet issues like scratching, coughing up hairballs, and cage maintenance issues. All of these notes are entered into a data base at the end of cleaning. This sends an immediate email out to the Operations Manager, CEO, President, Vets and Maintenance staff and becomes a permanent part of each cat's medical record. Not passing feces for a couple of days means trouble, so Skipper was taken to the vet for diagnostics. That's never an easy thing to do. Catching the cat is always stressful to the cat and dangerous for the people involved. If there is any way to check a cat and treat them in their cage we do, but this sort of problem would require sedation and X-rays. There is footage of us catching Skipper in this video that you can scrape for use in this video if you want.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRC_pCZqza4 Dr. Wynn tries a warm water enema first, but Skipper's intestines are really blocked. Note that Jamie Veronica is able to pull up Skipper's complete medical history on her phone for the vet, because of the google Education Apps site that we use to keep all of these records. We have set up more than a dozen sites like ours for other sanctuaries to use in the care of their animals. Let me know if you want screen shots of these kinds of files for the video. When we have time to take a volunteer or intern along, we often pick someone who has been especially helpful and who happens to be in the right place as we are heading out. This time it was Green Shirt Afton Tasler. Afton got the job of clipping Skipper's nails while he slept. In this raw footage are vets talking about other client's pets, so be sure none of that makes it into the final cut. The vet does X-rays and a sonogram to make sure she has gotten to the root of the problem. It would be foolish to assume we got it all and then be back in here two days later because the main blockage was still there. This is a good time to talk about how dangerous it is to sedate a cat and why we don't do it any more than absolutely necessary and to talk about why we need our own, on site X-ray and sonogram. Both have now been donated, but we are still fundraising for the building to house them, as our current, West Boensch Cat Hospital is too small. Skipper is given fluids to help flush out the drugs used to sedate him and to help hydrate his entire system to make it easier to pass feces. Dr. Wynn talks about how cats get so stressed going to the vet (domestics too) that their blood sugar levels spike, which can sometimes be mistaken for diabetes. Vet Cheetaro Leopard. 2013 vet visit. http://bigcatrescue.org/cheetaro/ Even though our cages are full of trees and wooden structures for the cats to sharpen their claws, they often do not do it consistently enough to keep their nails from growing too long. Because of the way the claws are curved, they can grow all the way around and pierce the paw pads. Their feet are so furry and the ground in their cages so soft, that we often cannot see that there is a problem until the cat begins limping. Given the ages of our cats who are mostly geriatric, it can be hard to tell if it is an ingrown nail or the inevitable arthritis of old age. Some cats, like Cheetaro, we know to have chronic nail issues, so in his case we knew we would have to sedate him and clip his nails back. You might wonder why we don't declaw cats who have these issues, but declawing takes off the entire last digit of the toe, can cause extreme pain to walk and the nails still grow back in many cases; just worse, like out of the tops or sides of their paws. Due to Cheetaro's advanced age we only want to lightly sedate him, but he's one of our most dangerous leopards too, so we need to be sure the vet is safe while working. You can see in this video how hard it can be to draw blood from a cat. They have evolved to have tiny veins that roll away from the point of puncture. This is great for avoiding a bite from another cat, but makes it hard on our vets to get a vein. Dr. Wynn and Jamie Veronica discuss some ways to encourage Cheetaro to use his scratching items more. Vet Jade Leopard. http://bigcatrescue.org/jade/ Jade had been vomiting. There probably isn't enough here to do anything with. There must have been other video taken at this time that may have already been used on BigCatTV.com or YouTube.com/DailyBigCat Jade illustrates how hard it is to catch a leopard. I think leopards are the smartest of the cats. We feed them every night and their water bowls are in their Lock Outs, so they know it is a safe place. Part of our Operant Conditioning with them is to give them treats in Lock Out and open and shut the door, so that when we do need to trap them, that isn't scary. CEO, Jamie Veronica and her husband, Dr. Justin Boorstein talk about how they will hook up the transport inside the cage. We lock the cat into one of the furthermost sections of their cages, which are all in 2 to 4 sections, separated by guillotine doors. Then we can open the outside door to bring in the transport. Once in the transport we have to slide in long metal poles so that the volunteers carrying the cats can keep their hands and arms away from the cat. We have to go slowly so the cat doesn't strike out at the poles and risk breaking a tooth. We weigh Jade at the West Boensch Cat Hospital before taking her in to see Dr. Wynn, so she has a recent weight on which to base her sedation drug dose. Unfortunately there is no vet video attached, so I don't know if any of this makes sense to use. This video was on our secondary site, and thus never got much exposure. Jade's sister, Armani had a polyp in the back of her throat that was causing her to choke and had to be removed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjxJL-_uO4s Vet Canyon Sandcat Claws 12/10/13 http://bigcatrescue.org/canyon/ I didn't get a chance to take notes on this one, but it's pretty clear what is happening. According to books I've read, Sandcats don't live past 13.9 years and ours are both over 14 now. Given the ages of our cats who are mostly geriatric, it can be hard to tell if it is an ingrown nail or the inevitable arthritis of old age. Some cats, like Canyon, we know to have chronic nail issues, so in his case we knew we would have to sedate him and clip his nails back. You might wonder why we don't declaw cats who have these issues, but declawing takes off the entire last digit of the toe, can cause extreme pain to walk and the nails still grow back in many cases; just worse, like out of the tops or sides of their paws. Due to Canyon's advanced age we only want to lightly sedate him, but the littler the cat, the more fierce they are, so we need to be sure the vet is safe while working. Enrichment http://bigcatrescue.org/enrichment/ I didn't get to take notes while encoding the enrichment footage from tape to digital but here is what I did note: Pinatas Cupcakes - Jade and Armani Leopards http://bigcatrescue.org/jade/ and http://bigcatrescue.org/armani/ Dinosaur - TJ Tiger http://bigcatrescue.org/tj/ Donkey - Cameron Lion and Zabu Tiger http://bigcatrescue.org/cameron-lion/ and http://bigcatrescue.org/zabu/ Flower - Nikita Lioness http://bigcatrescue.org/2011/nikita-3/ Present - Jumanji Leopard http://bigcatrescue.org/jumanji/ Toys Barbara Frank and Chris Poole load toys. Yellow Donut - Cameron Lion's favorite toy http://bigcatrescue.org/cameron-lion/ and http://bigcatrescue.org/zabu/ Red & Blue Donuts - Arthur, Andre and Amanda Tigers http://bigcatrescue.org/arthur/ and http://bigcatrescue.org/andre/ and http://bigcatrescue.org/amanda/ Meat Cakes for Birthdays Apollo and Zeus the Siberian Lynx http://bigcatrescue.org/apollo/ and http://bigcatrescue.org/zeus/ Bengali Tiger moaning and rubbing http://bigcatrescue.org/bengali/ Other Castle - Little Feather Bobcat http://bigcatrescue.org/little-feather/ Rock den - Apache Bobcat who got a card board cake http://bigcatrescue.org/apache/ Jamie at the beach with her friend Gail. Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/ I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet. You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.
100 Things Howie Brought Into My World or The First 12 Years Howie Anniversary 100 things I didn't have before you. The day I met you: 1. Some of our cats still lived in small runs in the parking lot and on concrete. 2. We had 10,000 visitors and were down 12% from the year before due to 9/11. 2002 3. We had never created an annual report. 2002 4. Our name was Wildlife on Easy Street and didn't say what we did. 2003 5. There was no prohibition on selling and transporting big cats across state lines. 2003 6. We had no audited statements and could not qualify for larger grants. Our largest outside gift had been $10,000. 2003 7. Our gift shop was a single room in a 1970's trailer and our register was a tool box in a metal cage. 2003 8. Our front gate was a chain link panel that kept falling off the tracks. 2003 9. We had never had radio ads. 2003 10. No retailer had ever proudly announced they would cease to carry fur. 2004 11. People still defanged and declawed big cats to make them more pliable for cub handling. 2004 12. We didn't have proper zoning and were in danger of developers running us off. 2004 13. We didn't have an Admin branch of the Volunteer Program. 2004 14. We didn't have an Intern Program. 2004 15. We didn't have an Operant Conditioning Program. 2004 16. We didn't have an Education Director. 2004 17. We didn't have a Point of Sale program. 2004 18. We didn't have a way to connect our supporters to their lawmakers. 2004 19. Food prep was a truck body with one row of sinks, one row of tables, and 6 people slinging machetes. We could only store a couple days' food. 2004 20. We didn't have a dumpster, so we had to carry hundreds of pounds of trash each day to the end of the street and clean up the mess made by people and animals. 2004 21. We had not yet been reviewed by Charity Navigator, but achieved their highest rating right out of the gate. 2004 22. There was no national conference for animal advocacy. 2005 23. We had never had a golf tournament. 2005 24. We needed to increase our budget for whole prey so we could rehab our first baby bobcat, named Faith. 2005 25. We didn't have a recycling program. 2005 26. We had never had a $10,000 in tours. 2005 27. We had no rear entrance and were trapped if a tree fell across Easy Street. 2005 28. We had never created and sold a Big Cat Calendar. 2005 29. We had never had a corporate giving campaign. 2005 30. We had never been able to qualify for the Federal Combined Federal Campaign. 2006 31. Ringling had never attempted a season without tiger acts. 2006 32. We had never been listed in Charity Guide's List of Volunteer Opportunities. 2006 33. YouTube didn't exist. We had no regular video presence online. 2006 34. People were petting, hand feeding, swimming with and having their photos made with adult lions and tigers. 2007 35. It was still legal to walk lions, tigers, leopards and cougars on leashes in public. 2007 36. Federal rules were finally written to enforce the 2003 Captive Wildlife Safety Act. 2007 37. There had never been an online resource that showed where big cats were kept. 2007 38. The USDI had never defined a sanctuary as a place that did not buy, breed, sell, trade nor allow public contact. 2007 39. Florida did not require any sort of liability insurance or bond for Class I owners. 2007 40. We had never been able to rally advocates enough to halt a big cat exhibit at a fair. 2007 41. We had never been in U.S. News and World Report. 2007 42. We could not afford a proper cemetery nor memorial plaques for our cats. 2007 43. We had not been able to provide meaningful conservation funding for snow leopards, African wildlife nor South American ecosystems. 2007 44. We had never had our PSA's run on T.V. 2007 45. We didn't have a rehab cage that was state of the art. 2007 46. We didn't have worker's comp, so we only had 3 employees. 2008 47. No country had yet banned the use of big cats in circus acts. 2008 48. We had never been a finalist for CFO of the year. 2008 49. Our perimeter wall had been a hodgepodge of chain link until our first solid wall began to go up after 4 years of fundraising. 2008 50. We had never been featured in Encyclopedia Britannica before. 2008 51. There had never been a comprehensive study on captive tigers until TRAFFIC quoted us extensively in Paper Tigers. 2008 52. Our website had never been available in any language other than English. 2008 53. There was no law against killing wild animals by remote control over the Internet. 2008 54. Tony the truck stop tiger had never had a lawyer before. Nor had any other exotic cat. 2008 55. We didn't have a Legacy Society and had not been effectively soliciting bequests. 2008 56. There was no Twitter. 2008 57. White tigers were all the rage because Siegfried & Roy were deceiving the public into thinking they were Royal White Bengal tigers and zoos were breeding them because the public would pay to see them. 2009 58. There were no written standards for sanctuary accreditation. 2009 59. We didn't have a consolidated Intranet site for storing documents, training staff & volunteers and recording animal records and observations. 2009 60. CITES had never clearly stated "operations breeding tigers on a commercial scale shall implement measures to restrict the captive population to a level supportive only to conserving wild tigers; tigers should not be bred for trade in their parts and derivatives. 14.69" after we funded the Tiger Coalition's presence. 2009 61. In Florida people could still have Cougars as pets. 2009 62. We didn't have FIOS high speed Internet. 2009 63. We didn't have security cameras. 2009 64. We didn't have a fenced parking lot to keep people from getting out of their cars and getting in trouble. 2009 65. We had never had a member voted Citizen of the Year by the chamber of commerce. 2009 66. We had never been able to afford a development person. 2009 67. We had never had a credit card program where our cats were featured and user's were able to donate with every purchase. 2009 68. Facebook didn't exist. 2009 69. The Florida Legislature had never had to force the Florida Wildlife Commission to enforce their own rule, re: the 10k bond for Class I animals. 2010 70. PetSmart had never taken a position and banned exotic cats from their stores in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. 2010 71. We had never won national awards for Best Non Profit. 2010 72. In Florida Bobcats could be legally used as bait in fenced areas where hunting dogs were trained to chase them down and rip them to shreds; all in the name of good, clean, family fun. 2010 73. There was no major animal welfare organization that understood the big cat crises was caused by cub handling. 2011 74. There was no one drawing the obvious line between cubs handled by tourists and lions killed in canned hunts. Hardly anyone even knew what a canned hunt was, and even those who did, didn't know that exotic cats were killed that way. 2011 75. There had never been a coalition of major animal protection groups working together to save the tiger. 2011 76. We had never had a volunteer hour tracking system, like Volgistics, to accurately account for volunteer hours. 2011 77. We had a static website but needed a content management system. 2011 78. We had never won a new truck before. 2011 79. We had never hosted a sanctuary workshop before. 2011 80. We didn't have outside professionals on our board of directors. 2011 81. We didn't have a generator to protect our food supply. 2011 82. There was no Google Plus. 2011 83. Malls throughout the midwest had cub handling displays every week of the year. 2012 84. We didn't have an endowment fund. 2012 85. We didn't have a Public Relations Director. 2012 86. Oprah had never taken a stand on fur. 2012 87. No city had ever banned the sale of fur. 2012 88. There had never been a federal bill introduced that would ban the private possession and public handling of big cats and their cubs. 2012 89. We had never been the main sponsor of Taking Action for Animals. 2012 90. We had never been able to use solar power. 2012 91. We had never been able to pursue my first passion of saving domestic cats and kittens from euthanasia. 2013 92. We could never have even considered building a 2.5 acre play yard for the cats. 2013 93. We had no way to insure our tour guides were giving accurate and relevant tours until implementing the automated tour and Vox system. 2013 94. We had never orchestrated an advocacy Fly In to D.C. 2013 95. We had never gotten a million dollar judgment against one of the bad guys. 2013 96. I had to supplement Big Cat Rescue's payroll. 2013 97. No one had ever done a study on the state of captive big cats around the world. 2013 98. I had never been able to go to the Animal Care Expo. 2014 99. We had never had our own lobbyist. 2014 100. We had never been able to understand each other on our radios. 2014 101. We had never had our own X-ray and Sonogram equipment. 2014 102. We never had a sufficient barrier between us and urban sprawl. 2014 103. And there was no way I could do much about it because as of the day I met you the sanctuary had been running in the red every year and it was all I could do to keep the cats fed. The day I met you: • I suffered from chronic back pain, a psychosomatic symptom of feeling unsupported. I can't remember any lasting back issues since I met you. • I'd never met a man who loved and supported me. • I'd never known what it was like to not feel frustrated and angry all the time. I used to journal all the time to try and work out the anger, but have had no reason to write, since meeting you. • No one ever took me to the beach for my birthday. • I'd never had anyone make me coffee. • No one ever spoke from their heart about our love in front of an audience and got choked up when saying, “To love someone is to see the face of God." I turned this into a printed book for Howie called The First Twelve Years. Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/ I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet. You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.
Throughout Western Civilization it has always been asserted that human beings are more than merely animals. They should not be treated like animals that can be owned or disposed of but that we have an intrinsic value, a spark of the divine, what the Judeo-Christian world calls the image of God. There is something special about human beings. Each individual is unique and deserves protection in particular when they are most vulnerable. Today's episode delves into the science of ultrasound and the power of this technology to see these individual lives within the womb. Brian will talk with Bri Knaus, owner of Hello My Baby which provides ultrasound services beyond the traditional 2D imagery that most people are familiar with. The proof of life is in the pictures! https://hellomybaby3d.com
Nic and Dando are back to discuss the one where Ross finds out that Carol is pregnant, although her new partner Susan has plans to essentially cut him out of the situation (not cool!). Meanwhile, Monica is nervous about hosting her parents for dinner and Rachel must return her engagement ring to Barry, only to find out that he went on their honeymoon with her maid of honour. A really fun episode! Send questions or comments to friendsmailbag@gmail.com Support the show to gain early access at patreon.com/fourfingerdiscount
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S1E2 "The one with the Sonogram at the end", Ryan and Marc are back as their journey through FRIENDS continues. The lesbian is pregnant, they can't settle on a name. The Gellar parents are coming to dinner, Monica knew?! Rachel returns the ring, Barry isn't all that sad and neither is Mindy. Follow us @watchfriendspod (send us your messages!) or check us out at www.watchingfriends.com
In deze aflevering van Friendsvrienden gaan we aflevering 2 van seizoen 1 van Friends bespreken. De titel van de aflevering is The One With The Sonogram At The End! Carol brengt een bezoek aan het museum waarin Ross werkt en ze heeft een heel bijzonder nieuwtje voor hem. De ouders van Monica en Ross komen op bezoek, waar Monica nogal zenuwachtig voor is en Ross iets heel belangrijks moet vertellen. Rachel moet haar verlovingsring terugbrengen naar Barry en Ross gaat met Carol en Susan naar de verloskundige. We gaan samen met jullie de verhaallijnen van deze aflevering bespreken. Daarnaast behandelen we ook leuke feitjes en behind the scenes trivia. Mocht je dit een leuke aflevering vinden, abonneer je dan op de Friendsvrienden-podcast en wordt ook een Friendsvriend. We zouden het ook heel tof vinden als je onze podcast 5 sterren wilt geven. Als je wil reageren op deze podcast, kun je hieronder een link vinden waarbij je een audiobericht kunt achterlaten en dan zullen we deze eventueel behandelen tijdens de volgende aflevering! Als je ons een berichtje wil sturen, dan kun je een mailtje sturen naar friendsvriendenpodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/friendsvrienden/message
Two sisters talking about Season 1, Episode 2 of FRIENDS! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this episode Michaleas Cage and All About the Benji talk about where the Ross and Rachel's relationship ranks with all-time TV couples. They also cover best TV intro songs of all-time a nd of course go through episode 2 "The one with the Sonogram" scene by scene.
Episodio Dos : El de la ecografía al final, un capítulo en el que empezamos a sumergirnos en las aguas del mundo Friends. En este capítulo no pasa nada, y a la vez pasa de todo. Escucha a Fer y Ale hablar 30 minutos sobre la serie que tanto nos gusta. Esta vez te va a tocar a vos elegir en nuestro Instagram @amiguispodcast, quien fue el mejor personaje del capítulo.
Make sure you're wearing your sunscreen for this episode cause we are headed to Aruba (oh wait that was Rachel's ex-husband Barry). This episode is filled with surprises, and Chloe and Katie are here to dive into it all. From Rachel losing her engagement ring to finding out Ross's ex-wife is pregnant this episode is full of ex drama. Follow us on IG for more: Chloe: cuckooforchlochlopuffs Katie: littlebabykates --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chloe-r5/message
Halsey shares a picture of her sonogram on Instagram story. We can see tiny feet in the picture and surely the mom-to-be is on cloud nine.
This week we dive into terrible 90's fashion, family issues, thigh masters, nicknames, and #backfacts.
"The One with the Sonogram at the Ende" - Der eine hat Bock und will seinen Compadre von dem Film "Ad Astra" überzeugen. Seine Argumente lassen ihn kalt, aber von ihm kommt auch nicht viel. Macht das Cinemascope Projekt überhaupt noch Sinn? Das klärt sich (vielleicht) am Ende der Episode - oder nie.
Ep. 2 TOW the Sonogram at the End...Rachel has to give back the engagement ring but can't find it...Mr. & Mrs. Gellar visit Monica and Ross but Monica isn't thrilled...and we see a little baby Gellar-Willick-Bunch-Green-Buffay-Tribbiani-Bing :) Listen now... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bryanna-cobb/message
“Sonogram: The Great Pretender” offers listeners an abundance of information about obstetrical ultrasound. It equips you to make informed decisions regarding sonogram examination during your pregnancy journey. DISCLAIMER: The Savvy Black Birther Podcast host and guests do not give legal or healthcare advice, rather information derived from the evidence and/or extensive practice experience. No information recorded should be taken as advice about your personal situation or healthcare decisions. This information is disseminated for the sole purpose of education and empowerment. If you need legal or healthcare advice or information, seek out a well-vetted and suitably qualified healthcare professional. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thesavvy-blackbirther/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thesavvy-blackbirther/support
We're back to take a gander at episode 2. How is Ross coping with his wife leaving him? How is Rachel adjusting to life in the city? What THE HELL is going on with Joey's hair?
Friends and family of 33-year-old Kassanndra Cantrell are extremely worried. The mom-to-be hasn't been seen in days and she missed her first sonogram appointment for her pregnancy. Her phone last pinged in Point Defiance Park, but her mom says that's not a location Cantrell is in normally. Cantrell was last seen via Ring doorbell camera video, leaving her home in her car. That car was found abandoned near the Tacoma Dome.Joining Nancy Grace today:Kathleen Murphy - North Carolina, Family Attorney, www.ncdomesticlaw.comDr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta Ga www.angelaarnoldmd.comInvestigator James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Major Case detective, SWAT Officer, Attorney www.shelnuttlawfirm.comNicole Partin - Crime Online Investigative ReporterTIP LINE - Pierce County Sheriff's department - (253) 798-7530
Sabrina Jalees sits down with the girls (again, under very strange, flawed, quarantined recording session circumstances) to talk about all things squirt-y (doctor role play with the wife, anyone?) and relationship-y. For instance, she was in love with all of her best friends as a kid and thought more love songs should just be about best friends. Also, a very special message for Jennifer Love Hewitt… if she's listening... Want to support the show? Become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32555500&fan_landing=true Podcast Art by Charles Rogers Theme Music by Jon Daly
7 AM - Jack updates us on Laura's sonogram; Fox News' Amy Kellogg is in London reporting on the riots; State Senator Ted Gaines comes on to talk about re-evaluating parole for serious sex offenders.
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