I had knee surgery earlier this year. It was, and in many ways still is, a miserable experience. I am still frequently in pain. What really needs to happen is I have to change my lifestyle and lose a bunch of weight.
Like an entire other person’s worth.
But I need to shut up and take my cue from someone much stronger than I am:
Four year-old Lucy climbed a mountain without the use of her hind legs. Not bad for a disabled dog, eh?
You can find me at the salad bar.











More animal cruelty laws, or the will to enforce them?
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So, you don’t have to play for the NFL, at least not in Oklahoma. Oklahoma law allow for a sentence of up to five years for each animal in a cruelty case, so he could have faced 960, 350, or 25 years, depending on which set of charges you want to use. But he was sentenced to 90 days. Really? How about long enough for his TIVO to run out of space?
But wait! There’s more! 5 years ago the same man was forbidden from ever owning dogs again in Kansas! While asking for a national database of animal cruelty convictions is probably beyond the pale at this point, did the Oklahoma judge know this? Did he take it into consideration?
As Brent points out, do we really need more animal cruelty laws? Maybe what we need is people willing to enforce what we have, including putting some teeth in them by actually, you know, punishing people that are cruel to animals?
Just a thought.