Dog people, any thoughts on this?

K9 Bridle

Fitting Instructions - K9 Bridle

K9 Bridle Fitting Instructions 1. Open the K9 Bridle at the two middle rings and fit over your dog's head. 2. Form a hoop to fit over your dog...

I like the attachment point and the safety strap, and the fact that it’s held together by the lead clip. I have been using a Sporn halter, but the plastic clip’s going on it and I can’t get a new one easily any more (would have to come from the US). Haltis are right out, because of the attachment point location.

Ladies, can anyone shed any light? Sometimes, when I dream about something sensual (not necessarily sexual, could be eating tasty food or cuddling an animal) I get (in my dream) a generally warm and fuzzy sensation and then a sort of spasm, which is not unpleasant in my dream but wakes me up with a sharp, steady ache around the level of the top of my mons pubis. The ache lasts for about half an hour, gradually fading away. As far as I can tell, there is no sexual component, I don’t wake up feeling mentally or physically turned on or anything. It seems to only happen when my bladder is fairly full, but there’s no leakage at the time and if I try to go to the loo before the ache has passed then I have to really strain to repeatedly pass small amounts of urine. It’s been happening since I was in my late twenties, maybe, but seems to be getting more common in the last few years (loss of bladder capacity with age?). Is this one of those “oh, yeah, dead common but no one talks about it” things? Does anyone know what’s going on? It’s more annoying than anything else — the half hour wait for the ache to go stops me going back to sleep for long enough to get thoroughly woken up — but if it’s an early symptom of something then I guess I should find out more.

Compelled Speech: How Supreme Court Is Imposing Woke Ideology & Radical Gender Theory On Our Society

The Supreme Court, last week, released a “Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes”. It contains a glossary of gender-unjust terms and sugge...

The right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution of India also guards against Compelled Speech. Freedom to speak includes freedom not to speak and to speak using words of one’s choice. The right not to be compelled by the State to use certain words or language is inherent in Article 19 of our Constitution. Although the Handbook has no statutory or constitutional backing and it does not purport to be binding, it carries a lot of weight, coming from the Supreme Court. The new Handbook of the Supreme Court rightly states that words “shape narratives and influence societal attitudes”. That is exactly what some Judges are trying to do through the Handbook, to shape narratives and push a political ideology through the Supreme Court. This is nothing but tyranny of the unelected. Lawyers and other Judges must resist such attempts in the interest of the institution of Judiciary.

Turns out that the alternative to pressure washing involves an angle grinder. So much dust….

I nearly gave up on this when George bloody Monbiot started droning on, but it’s actually pretty good for the BBC:

BBC

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, Is there a new elite?

Who’s really in charge? A new progressive elite, or the rich, privileged born-to-rule?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/09/literary-agents-authors-lgbtq-disabled-people-colour/ Ash Literary, an agency looking “for extraordinary stories for children that reflect and celebrate the diversity of our world”, states on its submissions page: “We are not interested in stories about white able-bodied WW2 evacuees but would welcome that story from a disabled, LGBTQ+ or BIPOC [black, indigenous, and other people of colour] perspective.” Were there many Picts evacuated during WW2? Kathleen Stock, the leading feminist and philosopher, told the Telegraph: “This is about the performance of moral goodness and guilt-expiation by posh, publicly-school educated people, and not much else. There is no link between talent and identity, though you can market identity to a certain kind of gullible reader. https://archive.ph/hrDLc

The Critic Magazine

A failure of safeguarding | Miriam Cates | The Critic Magazine

On Thursday, it was reported that the Government had decided not to pursue any legal changes before publishing the long awaited “trans guidance�...

But it isn’t just the harm being done to “transitioning” children that should cause alarm. When schools allow a child to change their name and pronouns, other children in the school are pressured into accepting this new identity. I’m willing to bet that most adolescents know that humans can’t change sex, so in being forced to collude with the transition of a peer they are being pressured — every time they speak to or about their “trans” classmate — to speak a lie. When people are compelled by those in authority to repeat untruths or remain silent when lies are spoken, they lose their sense of self-worth and ability to resist coercion; it is unthinkable that this should be happening to children in a democracy.

Fighting in Israel between two groups of Eritrean refugees, the groups being pro- and anti- the Eritrean government. Now, I can’t personally conceive of being pro that regime, but if you are then why are you living as a refugee in a different country?

I’m very pleased to report that Dog Treat Lady’s cyst is looking miles better: the swelling’s gone, it’s dull red in a “healing nicely” way rather than angry-looking, and it’s barely oozing. She’s confidently saying it’s fine and she won’t need surgery, and I hope the nurse agrees when she goes back to have it looked at in a few days.