A family member went to a neighborhood party, and at around fifty, found he was the youngest person there. The neighbors pointed to a wooded area across the street and held forth that the owner of that property should not be allowed to develop it. Toby took the other view: that it was the property of the owner, and he should have be allowed to develop it. "If you offer him money that he wants for the property and you all want to go in on buying the property to leave it wooded, that's different." But these people weren't buying. It made no sense to them. Toby even said, "You wouldn't have your property now if some landowner didn't sell it to you." Still, they saw no moral problem in going to the Board of County Commissioners and having it passed by law that the landowner could'nt develop his land and forget about compensating him for his loss of control of his land. Does Toby live in community of psychopaths? It seems that way. For sure, they have no conscience when it comes to that landowner.
The present economic crisis was directly caused by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1976 which allowed the government to force banks to make mortgages to people who could not make the monthly payments. In addition, mortgages in some parts of the country such as New York and California were phenomenally high because of people like those at Toby's cocktail party. They were people who liked the woods and fields around them - who doesn't?- and went like spoiled brats to their county boards and got laws passed so these lands couldn't be developed. This caused land to become much more expensive as there was much less land available for development. It also essentially stole land from property owners as they lost control of their land. This was not only depriving property owners of their civil rights, but it was a process that cheapened the value of human life. At the same time, it increased the values of the homes already built, and it increased the narcissism of the spoiled brats who used the government to walk all over the rights of other property owners. The brats also got onto county boards so they could directly rule over other people's property and use it to their advantages as if it were their fiefdom.If this hadn't happened, there would have been more land available for development. That means land would have been cheaper since more would be available. Conservative economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out that in such areas the cost of the land was much more than the cost of the houses. To buy a detached house, which is what most people want, it is necessary to buy land to build it on. House including the land it was built on would not have been so expensive, even prohibitively expensive as many mortgage holders found out. Thus, the 2008 and continuing economic crisis was caused by government forcing the banks to make mortgages that couldn't be paid. Many of those morgages were so large because government, again, had taken land out of circulation thus driving land prices up artificially high which raised house prices artificially high which many, many Americans weren't able to afford - look at the foreclosures!- and the economy is still in a crisis. It is still in a crisis because the government refuses to get out of the economy. It will continue to do so until you and many others realize what a poison government is and vote it out of our lives.
But of course this is just fiction.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
White Man's Voice
Recently, I heard a black person on the radio hold forth that blacks could not discriminate because they had "no power." Now the chains have been dropped in America for about 150 years though slavery only ended in Saudia Arabia in 1962.
Blacks do have power, and they can discriminate, and they can be abusive. Every sentient human with a range of black experiences knows that. The prolem is that no one is saying it. Everyone is too frightened, and blacks continue to make absurd statements that many in the media are all too willing to try to ram down our throats. I am using this little medium of a blog to say that they are knowingly not telling the truth and to say they are simply using propaganda. My father as a civil servant was harassed for years by his boss, a black Army colonel. My mother and I worried that Dad's anxiety and depression would lead to a breakdown. A family member was kidnapped and raped by a black man. My son was hit until he was down on the floor twice in one day at school by blacks because he reported one of them for being a drug dealer. He idealistically thought that the student's mother would want to know. Since then, I have watched helplessly while my son in a re-enactment of the Stockholm Syndrome has identified himself with the ghetto black. You know the scene:
wearing your britches down below your buttocks and wanting to be a "player." I fault myiself for not trying to protect my son when he was attacked in government school.
I should have gone to a lawyer and gotten him to send a letter to the school that we would sue if my son were hurt again. This government school encouraged unrest between the races. I saw it during a graduation exercise in which a single black female student posing as a runaway slave scampered about the auditorium trying to evade several slave masters- white, male students. And of course the government teachers and administrators were just unable to protect my son from black retribution.
But I have noticed a huge hypocrisy among blacks about slavery. Now that there is no legal slavery in America and hasn't been for about 150 years, blacks seem to be quite insistent that taxpayers become their partial slaves. That is, taxpayers, particularly "the rich" must pay more taxes for more and more programs that will benefit blacks. This is force, ladies and gentlemen, even though the prevaricating politicians and their kind refer to taxes as "investments." Try not paying your taxes, and you will be eventually forced into jail. Just ask Wesley Snipes. Thus, my question to blacks is do you really object to slavery or do you just object to being the slaves? Forcing other people to live a part of their lives working to pay for you through your government "entiltlements" and other financial programs is slave-holding, pure and simple. Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 peternickerson12@yahoo.com
Blacks do have power, and they can discriminate, and they can be abusive. Every sentient human with a range of black experiences knows that. The prolem is that no one is saying it. Everyone is too frightened, and blacks continue to make absurd statements that many in the media are all too willing to try to ram down our throats. I am using this little medium of a blog to say that they are knowingly not telling the truth and to say they are simply using propaganda. My father as a civil servant was harassed for years by his boss, a black Army colonel. My mother and I worried that Dad's anxiety and depression would lead to a breakdown. A family member was kidnapped and raped by a black man. My son was hit until he was down on the floor twice in one day at school by blacks because he reported one of them for being a drug dealer. He idealistically thought that the student's mother would want to know. Since then, I have watched helplessly while my son in a re-enactment of the Stockholm Syndrome has identified himself with the ghetto black. You know the scene:
wearing your britches down below your buttocks and wanting to be a "player." I fault myiself for not trying to protect my son when he was attacked in government school.
I should have gone to a lawyer and gotten him to send a letter to the school that we would sue if my son were hurt again. This government school encouraged unrest between the races. I saw it during a graduation exercise in which a single black female student posing as a runaway slave scampered about the auditorium trying to evade several slave masters- white, male students. And of course the government teachers and administrators were just unable to protect my son from black retribution.
But I have noticed a huge hypocrisy among blacks about slavery. Now that there is no legal slavery in America and hasn't been for about 150 years, blacks seem to be quite insistent that taxpayers become their partial slaves. That is, taxpayers, particularly "the rich" must pay more taxes for more and more programs that will benefit blacks. This is force, ladies and gentlemen, even though the prevaricating politicians and their kind refer to taxes as "investments." Try not paying your taxes, and you will be eventually forced into jail. Just ask Wesley Snipes. Thus, my question to blacks is do you really object to slavery or do you just object to being the slaves? Forcing other people to live a part of their lives working to pay for you through your government "entiltlements" and other financial programs is slave-holding, pure and simple. Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 peternickerson12@yahoo.com
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Wow! Two Black Panthers Running With Cub
Some weeks your panther and Bigfoot questions yield gold. This is the week for panthers. Rick McDonald, who works for Alachua County, Florida and lives only a couple of hundred yards from me saw a black panther on his property, the field where he keeps horses, about 10 years ago. The panther appeared to be simply crossing through. Eight years ago, a young horse displayed claw scratches across his body. Then Rick saw three black panthers, two adults, and their cub, coursing across his field. Rick demonstrated with his hand the way they ran: "Up and then down. Up and then down." The young horse has grown up neurotic from the trauma of the panther attack. Rick said the horse is very "skittish" and is always looking around. The horse obviously has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and so much for the Nietzhian
psycho-blabber that "what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."
Years ago, my son,who is an excellent hunter and fisherman, showed me an old tree that had beem scratched by a panther, I believe. I have read that a panther claws a tree trunk straight down while a bear slants his scratching. The tree I was shown had vertical claw scratches on it. I would not want to have been that tree. The marks were deep and long. At another time, I found a deer killed on an old railroad bed in the same area. I was not able to find any wounds on the deer. The intestines had been rolled up into a ball several feet from the body. Perhaps I should have looked around carefully to see if anyone was peeking at me from behind a tree or bush. I immediately thought the scene was a panther kill as I had heard panthers will ball up the intestines. But reading has made me think of Bigfoot being a possibility for the kill also. We live in an area that has some woods, and it is full of deer. A neighbor does a kind deed in setting up a feeder on a tripod and stocking it faithfully. The feeder is in the middle of about a two-acre lawn, and I have seen as many as ten deer at the feeder. It is a majestic sight. A doe who has thrown three fawns each spring for the last two years is a frequent habitue of the feeder as she needs all the help she can get in taking care of her triplets. Right next to our property is a cattle and horse ranch, and my son and I have seen panther tracks three inches across on that property. Perhaps one night I will see or hear a panther or even the Wild Man Of The Woods on my property. There is an old Cuban farmer nearby who does some night shooting. If I ever run into him, I'll have to ask him what he's shooting at. Besides vegetables, he has goats, ducks, and chickens.
The pharmacist at Walgreen in Alachua City, Florida, had a panther story to tell me while I got my flu shot. He was born in Florida and saw his panther on Newberry Road in Gainesville, Florida going west past Tower Road and before you get to the Baptist Church.I asked him if the cat was short and stocky like a cocker-spaniel, and he said it was long - measuring off about a yard with his hands- and had a long tail.
Isn't it interesting that everyone but Fish and Wildlife sees panthers? Actually, they do too, but they're being paid not to. There's much taxpayer money to be gained
by not seeing panthers. If people were properly compensated for their property and people were allowed to take tax write-offs for not being allowed by government to use their property as they wished, property-owners would be much more friendly to the panther, the cockaded woodpecker, and the gopher-tortoise.
Recent readings of the Bigfoot Field Organization website has produced a white Bigfoot sighting in Jefferson County in Washington State, a Bigfoot who swatted a super-courageous Springer Spaniel who was trying to chase Bigfoot off his land. The spaniel was unhurt, but he ran for home after the Bigfoot Swat, and finally a story about seeing a Bigfoot jump onto a snake and catch him by his head.
Please call me with your panther or Bigfoot sighting. Thank-you Pete Nickerson at 352-359-0850.
psycho-blabber that "what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."
Years ago, my son,who is an excellent hunter and fisherman, showed me an old tree that had beem scratched by a panther, I believe. I have read that a panther claws a tree trunk straight down while a bear slants his scratching. The tree I was shown had vertical claw scratches on it. I would not want to have been that tree. The marks were deep and long. At another time, I found a deer killed on an old railroad bed in the same area. I was not able to find any wounds on the deer. The intestines had been rolled up into a ball several feet from the body. Perhaps I should have looked around carefully to see if anyone was peeking at me from behind a tree or bush. I immediately thought the scene was a panther kill as I had heard panthers will ball up the intestines. But reading has made me think of Bigfoot being a possibility for the kill also. We live in an area that has some woods, and it is full of deer. A neighbor does a kind deed in setting up a feeder on a tripod and stocking it faithfully. The feeder is in the middle of about a two-acre lawn, and I have seen as many as ten deer at the feeder. It is a majestic sight. A doe who has thrown three fawns each spring for the last two years is a frequent habitue of the feeder as she needs all the help she can get in taking care of her triplets. Right next to our property is a cattle and horse ranch, and my son and I have seen panther tracks three inches across on that property. Perhaps one night I will see or hear a panther or even the Wild Man Of The Woods on my property. There is an old Cuban farmer nearby who does some night shooting. If I ever run into him, I'll have to ask him what he's shooting at. Besides vegetables, he has goats, ducks, and chickens.
The pharmacist at Walgreen in Alachua City, Florida, had a panther story to tell me while I got my flu shot. He was born in Florida and saw his panther on Newberry Road in Gainesville, Florida going west past Tower Road and before you get to the Baptist Church.I asked him if the cat was short and stocky like a cocker-spaniel, and he said it was long - measuring off about a yard with his hands- and had a long tail.
Isn't it interesting that everyone but Fish and Wildlife sees panthers? Actually, they do too, but they're being paid not to. There's much taxpayer money to be gained
by not seeing panthers. If people were properly compensated for their property and people were allowed to take tax write-offs for not being allowed by government to use their property as they wished, property-owners would be much more friendly to the panther, the cockaded woodpecker, and the gopher-tortoise.
Recent readings of the Bigfoot Field Organization website has produced a white Bigfoot sighting in Jefferson County in Washington State, a Bigfoot who swatted a super-courageous Springer Spaniel who was trying to chase Bigfoot off his land. The spaniel was unhurt, but he ran for home after the Bigfoot Swat, and finally a story about seeing a Bigfoot jump onto a snake and catch him by his head.
Please call me with your panther or Bigfoot sighting. Thank-you Pete Nickerson at 352-359-0850.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Yikes! A UFO, Bigfoot, And A White Panther!
Several months ago, I was reading at 10:20 on a Friday night when I received a call from a public phone from a Mr. Thomas Hackett. He was cautiously saying hi to the people who were passing by him and was calling me from the Hawthorne, Florida area, just about twenty miles east of Tim Tebow's University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. God bless you Tim and onward Christian soldiers. Thomas Hackett had just seen a flying saucer right down to the windows. But he had not seen any figures in the windows. Years before, a friend of Thomas's had given him my black panther business card so he called me.
In response to my questions, he said he had heard of a Bigfoot in the area getting under the typical cracker houses and lifting up a floorboard to peek inside. He probably wanted to see what was on television! I am glad to see that the creator of the Virginia Bigfoot blog is using a super quiet camera he has been working on for years is finally able to use the camera outside windows that Bigfoot comes to in order to watch television. Unfortunatley, the gentleman calls these camera "traps."
This is the wrong thing to do as the word "trap" provokes the government and law enforcement to become involved. I had to buy a license to trap. Don't use the word "trap": just call it what it is - a camera. Again unfortunately, the Virginia gentleman is unlikely to take my advice because he is an FBI agent, but for the rest of us who don't want the government and law enforcement looking over our shoulders eager to charge us with a multitiude of hysterically overblown crimes and don't want to pay for licenses and don't want to have "trapping seasons" and anything else the government wants to throw at you, your cameras are cameras and not "traps." Don't get gulled into thinking you are being sophisticated by calling your camera a "trap." You're being hoodwinked! To return to my reporter, Thomas Hackett: This was the first report I had heard of in which a Bigfoot played Peeping Tom by lifting a floorboard though I have read about him looking through windows and even reaching through windows, including doing that trying to reach a child sitting on the toilet.
Next, I obtained the Holy Grail of panther reports when Thomas told me that in the 1990s he had been in camping in the George Washington National Forest in West Virginia, just across the Virginia border, when his friends and he had a white panther approach their campfire. There was about a two hundred foot cliff next to the camp, and the panther descended the cliff, screaming as he came. "We shined flashlights and could see the pink eyes. It was an albino," Thomas Hackett said.
Please call me with your Bigfoot and black panther sightings. I am trying to form a Bigfoot Camera-Hunt team to share gasoline expenses and fun. I'd like to do some night searching by vehicle in areas where he's been sighted. Also, day hiking in such areas to look for tracks and tree twists and to see if we can pique the curiosity of a Bigfoot or two. Call me, Pete Nickerson, please at 352-359-0850.
In response to my questions, he said he had heard of a Bigfoot in the area getting under the typical cracker houses and lifting up a floorboard to peek inside. He probably wanted to see what was on television! I am glad to see that the creator of the Virginia Bigfoot blog is using a super quiet camera he has been working on for years is finally able to use the camera outside windows that Bigfoot comes to in order to watch television. Unfortunatley, the gentleman calls these camera "traps."
This is the wrong thing to do as the word "trap" provokes the government and law enforcement to become involved. I had to buy a license to trap. Don't use the word "trap": just call it what it is - a camera. Again unfortunately, the Virginia gentleman is unlikely to take my advice because he is an FBI agent, but for the rest of us who don't want the government and law enforcement looking over our shoulders eager to charge us with a multitiude of hysterically overblown crimes and don't want to pay for licenses and don't want to have "trapping seasons" and anything else the government wants to throw at you, your cameras are cameras and not "traps." Don't get gulled into thinking you are being sophisticated by calling your camera a "trap." You're being hoodwinked! To return to my reporter, Thomas Hackett: This was the first report I had heard of in which a Bigfoot played Peeping Tom by lifting a floorboard though I have read about him looking through windows and even reaching through windows, including doing that trying to reach a child sitting on the toilet.
Next, I obtained the Holy Grail of panther reports when Thomas told me that in the 1990s he had been in camping in the George Washington National Forest in West Virginia, just across the Virginia border, when his friends and he had a white panther approach their campfire. There was about a two hundred foot cliff next to the camp, and the panther descended the cliff, screaming as he came. "We shined flashlights and could see the pink eyes. It was an albino," Thomas Hackett said.
Please call me with your Bigfoot and black panther sightings. I am trying to form a Bigfoot Camera-Hunt team to share gasoline expenses and fun. I'd like to do some night searching by vehicle in areas where he's been sighted. Also, day hiking in such areas to look for tracks and tree twists and to see if we can pique the curiosity of a Bigfoot or two. Call me, Pete Nickerson, please at 352-359-0850.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Reports of Tan Panthers in Florida
First I'd like to thank Deepcover for letting me know about a flurry of black panther sightings in upper South Carolina. Action in Florida has been slow. Last week I went to the Chiefland Walmart and asked two elderly gentlemen, white hair under their camouflage caps, The Question. One told me of three tan panthers he had seen in various spots in Florida including near Tampa. The other hunter told me that he had seen one panther, color not determined because he moved so quickly, while he was on the way to Cedar Key which is due west of Gainesville on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a frequent spot for panther sightings as the road goes through Devil's Hammock.
I also heard about a picture and article about a hunter almost arrested for killing the wrong kind of Felis concolor. It supposedly took a DNA test to save him from a major ticket. Don't you think this is going too far? It reminds me of the hunter who was almost arrested by the Canadian authorities for killling a bear that the authorities suspected was a polar bear. The hunter and his seasoned Indian guide had identified him as a grizzly. DNA testing proved he was a hybrid - half polar bear and half grizzly. He is called a pizzy. In both cases, careful field observation wasn't enough according to the government. You needed to take a DNA sample which of course if absurd and impossible. But Big Government doesn't care about that. It only cares about power - rubbing its crotch across your face. The "Wall
Street Journal" has been running articles about the ruthlessness of federal laws, particularly the ones applying to hunters and outdoorsmen. The answer for the increasing governmental oppression is to vote for Tea Party backed candidates.
Do it now before Big Government enacts so many ridiculous laws that no one dares go out into the woods. That's exactly what it wants. Big Government hates individualism.
I also heard about a picture and article about a hunter almost arrested for killing the wrong kind of Felis concolor. It supposedly took a DNA test to save him from a major ticket. Don't you think this is going too far? It reminds me of the hunter who was almost arrested by the Canadian authorities for killling a bear that the authorities suspected was a polar bear. The hunter and his seasoned Indian guide had identified him as a grizzly. DNA testing proved he was a hybrid - half polar bear and half grizzly. He is called a pizzy. In both cases, careful field observation wasn't enough according to the government. You needed to take a DNA sample which of course if absurd and impossible. But Big Government doesn't care about that. It only cares about power - rubbing its crotch across your face. The "Wall
Street Journal" has been running articles about the ruthlessness of federal laws, particularly the ones applying to hunters and outdoorsmen. The answer for the increasing governmental oppression is to vote for Tea Party backed candidates.
Do it now before Big Government enacts so many ridiculous laws that no one dares go out into the woods. That's exactly what it wants. Big Government hates individualism.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Two Florida Bigfoot Stories & Two Black Panthers `
I heard these two stories from an Alachua County (Florida) worker. I asked him for any Bigfoot sightings by him or his friends, and he replied, " I don't believe he exists."
"It is hard to believe, isn't it?"
"My sister-in-law and her grandmother swear they saw one."
"What was the situation?"
"They live in Pensacola and said they saw one run through the backyard. Both of them swear they saw it. They ran for a camera, but it was gone."
Then a second story came to him: "A friend of mine swears he saw one on the main road in Hawthorne (Florida, just east of Gainesville). He was about five feet tall, with arms down to the road, standing on the main highway, just looking."
"I've read a report about one stealing chickens and appearing before a family in a mobile home just a half of mile from the pulp mill in Hawthorne. Apparently, they left because of it," I told him.
Recently I was having lunch outside and asked two other guests if they were hunters.
One said yes so I asked The Questions. His story was: "We put out a trail camera by a corn feeder. A black panther came in, and we got a picture of him eating the corn."
"That's very unusual," I commented. " A cat eating corn."
'I know. Maybe he wasn't eating the corn. Maybe he was just smelling it."
"Did you get a good picture?"
"No, just his head."
This took place about six months ago in Gilchrist County, Florida.
I received the second story at a grocery store. The lady, a sixty year old Jehovah's Witness, said, "This happened when I was only ten and lived in Maine, but it is still vivid in my mind. My father was a deer hunter, and we drove into the woods, parked, and waited to see if there were any deer. A black panther walked right in front of our car."
"How far away was he?"
"Twelve feet. My father whispered, 'Panther!' We also saw a bobcat and two deer."
Note: Bobcats are known to follow panthers hoping to get some of the panther's kill.
Having seen what the Enviromental Protection Agency did to humans in the Pacific Northwest, denying their jobs as loggers, by using the Spotted Owl for an excuse and more recently seeing what the EPA did to the farmers by drying up California's Central Valley to farming, I understand better the bias against recognizing the black phase of the panther as existing. Humans don't want to be prohibited from logging, farming, hunting, and developing through the efforts of the EPA to "protect" the endangered panther. I think this is another reason to elect conservative Republicans as Liberals and even country-club Republicans are more inclined to vote for utopian ideas that only make sense of an emotional basis. If people really cared about you, they wouldn't just offer emotionality but reasoned arguements that include facts, unintentional consequences, and trade-offs. Instead, liberals yell "Free games and grain!" and the ignorant yell back "Yay!" never thinking that there is no free lunch. Even the "free lunches" in the Western saloons were contingent upon you buying liquor. Conservative Republicans are much more likely
to preserve your rights to log, farm, hunt, and even develop in panther woods. Maybe a President Perry will take the little Caesar attitude out of the Enviromental Protection Agency.At any rate, the field guides need to start showing the black color phase of the panther. It's really ignorant of them not to and indicates that they are much too politicized instead of professional. Happy trails.
"It is hard to believe, isn't it?"
"My sister-in-law and her grandmother swear they saw one."
"What was the situation?"
"They live in Pensacola and said they saw one run through the backyard. Both of them swear they saw it. They ran for a camera, but it was gone."
Then a second story came to him: "A friend of mine swears he saw one on the main road in Hawthorne (Florida, just east of Gainesville). He was about five feet tall, with arms down to the road, standing on the main highway, just looking."
"I've read a report about one stealing chickens and appearing before a family in a mobile home just a half of mile from the pulp mill in Hawthorne. Apparently, they left because of it," I told him.
Recently I was having lunch outside and asked two other guests if they were hunters.
One said yes so I asked The Questions. His story was: "We put out a trail camera by a corn feeder. A black panther came in, and we got a picture of him eating the corn."
"That's very unusual," I commented. " A cat eating corn."
'I know. Maybe he wasn't eating the corn. Maybe he was just smelling it."
"Did you get a good picture?"
"No, just his head."
This took place about six months ago in Gilchrist County, Florida.
I received the second story at a grocery store. The lady, a sixty year old Jehovah's Witness, said, "This happened when I was only ten and lived in Maine, but it is still vivid in my mind. My father was a deer hunter, and we drove into the woods, parked, and waited to see if there were any deer. A black panther walked right in front of our car."
"How far away was he?"
"Twelve feet. My father whispered, 'Panther!' We also saw a bobcat and two deer."
Note: Bobcats are known to follow panthers hoping to get some of the panther's kill.
Having seen what the Enviromental Protection Agency did to humans in the Pacific Northwest, denying their jobs as loggers, by using the Spotted Owl for an excuse and more recently seeing what the EPA did to the farmers by drying up California's Central Valley to farming, I understand better the bias against recognizing the black phase of the panther as existing. Humans don't want to be prohibited from logging, farming, hunting, and developing through the efforts of the EPA to "protect" the endangered panther. I think this is another reason to elect conservative Republicans as Liberals and even country-club Republicans are more inclined to vote for utopian ideas that only make sense of an emotional basis. If people really cared about you, they wouldn't just offer emotionality but reasoned arguements that include facts, unintentional consequences, and trade-offs. Instead, liberals yell "Free games and grain!" and the ignorant yell back "Yay!" never thinking that there is no free lunch. Even the "free lunches" in the Western saloons were contingent upon you buying liquor. Conservative Republicans are much more likely
to preserve your rights to log, farm, hunt, and even develop in panther woods. Maybe a President Perry will take the little Caesar attitude out of the Enviromental Protection Agency.At any rate, the field guides need to start showing the black color phase of the panther. It's really ignorant of them not to and indicates that they are much too politicized instead of professional. Happy trails.
Monday, August 1, 2011
A Dog Overcoming Cancer
Rocket appears to be a Cairn's Terrier, and he is about twelve years old. He is a quiet, dignified little dog who is absolutetly irresistable to everyone, speaking generally. However, he is solely dedicated to his mistress, Tasha. Years ago she rescued him and a bigger dog, a collie-mix, from a couple. The husband was a troubled soul who claimed he saw dead people and had fits of rage during which he had picked up Rocket who was inside his cage and thrown him out the front door of the house.
Tasha was able to take the two dogs and eventually discovered that Rocket had Cushing's Disease. At great expense she treated it and got in under control. Then she learned that Rocket had Lymphoma, and he began cancer treatment at the University of Florida's small animal clinic which has just moved to a beautiful building. From what I can gather, a course of chemotherapy can cost $2,ooo to $4,ooo.
Rocket's chemotherapy went smoothly, and he is now in remisssion. But that doesn't always happen. An acquaintance has a dog who alerts her to her enviroment because she is totally deaf was treated for Lymphoma at the same time as Rocket. However, in the course of chemotherapy, it was found that the cancer had spread to the dog's liver. The last I heard the dog was still alive. The only time this dog wagged her tail at me was during her chemotherapy. Her mistress always referred to her lack of energy and enthusiasm as being "tired," but now we know it was cancer.
When Rocket was getting his last treatment, the doctor called Tasha to say that he had detected a heart murmur. This was almost too much for Tasha. She had tackled and paid for the treatment of Cushing's Disease and cancer. Now she was being told that Rocket had heart problems! She had no more money, and she had to tell the Vet not to
investigate the heart murmur. The Vet totally understood. Rocket's two week check-up revealed that his cancer was still in remission, and the Vet could not hear a heart murmur.
As pets become increasingly dear to humans, their health problems are going to become more obvious as they have such short life spans compared to us humans. That means humans must take into account the cost of health care when they buy an animal.
It is only realistic of a prospective dog raiser to ask himself is he is willing to give up a considerable chunk of his materialistic narcissism and self-indulgence to take care of his canine best friend. If you ever get into a position that you can not afford to treat your animal, take him to your Vet and tell him. If the choice is only to put him to sleep, it is far better than letting your pal suffer. Don't feel alone; there are plenty of people who go to the vet with the same problem. It's a very tough possiblity, but it's best you know about it. Your dog will give you a love and faithfulness that you will not find with a human, but remember that he is helpless and relies upon you to take care of him. Never let him suffer.
Tasha was able to take the two dogs and eventually discovered that Rocket had Cushing's Disease. At great expense she treated it and got in under control. Then she learned that Rocket had Lymphoma, and he began cancer treatment at the University of Florida's small animal clinic which has just moved to a beautiful building. From what I can gather, a course of chemotherapy can cost $2,ooo to $4,ooo.
Rocket's chemotherapy went smoothly, and he is now in remisssion. But that doesn't always happen. An acquaintance has a dog who alerts her to her enviroment because she is totally deaf was treated for Lymphoma at the same time as Rocket. However, in the course of chemotherapy, it was found that the cancer had spread to the dog's liver. The last I heard the dog was still alive. The only time this dog wagged her tail at me was during her chemotherapy. Her mistress always referred to her lack of energy and enthusiasm as being "tired," but now we know it was cancer.
When Rocket was getting his last treatment, the doctor called Tasha to say that he had detected a heart murmur. This was almost too much for Tasha. She had tackled and paid for the treatment of Cushing's Disease and cancer. Now she was being told that Rocket had heart problems! She had no more money, and she had to tell the Vet not to
investigate the heart murmur. The Vet totally understood. Rocket's two week check-up revealed that his cancer was still in remission, and the Vet could not hear a heart murmur.
As pets become increasingly dear to humans, their health problems are going to become more obvious as they have such short life spans compared to us humans. That means humans must take into account the cost of health care when they buy an animal.
It is only realistic of a prospective dog raiser to ask himself is he is willing to give up a considerable chunk of his materialistic narcissism and self-indulgence to take care of his canine best friend. If you ever get into a position that you can not afford to treat your animal, take him to your Vet and tell him. If the choice is only to put him to sleep, it is far better than letting your pal suffer. Don't feel alone; there are plenty of people who go to the vet with the same problem. It's a very tough possiblity, but it's best you know about it. Your dog will give you a love and faithfulness that you will not find with a human, but remember that he is helpless and relies upon you to take care of him. Never let him suffer.
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