Gamerooster.com has a great page here on what type of wormer kills which worms, although it's aimed at chickens, I imagine the info would help: http://www.gamerooster.com/ Velvet ~:>

"BUT there is no claim or conclusion in the paper “that Roundup Ready maize NK603 and/or the Roundup herbicide have a link to cancer”; nor does the “entire paper” “claim that there is a definitive link between GMO and cancer”. IN FACT, THE ENTIRE SERALINI PAPER DOES NOT MENTION THE WORD “CANCER” ANYWHERE!" ...except the dozens of places where they mention tumors in the paper...which is all over the damn place...even (and especially) in the "Results" breakdown in the paper. "His toxicity study has now been retracted on the grounds of claiming “a definitive link between GMO and cancer”, which it nowhere makes." Ummm no. It's being retracted on the grounds of "FCT has retracted this article because our thorough investigations revealed that its methods were scientifically flawed. The low number of animals, and the strain selected, rendered the conclusions unreliable. No definitive conclusions could be drawn from the inconclusive data." according to the official explanation...not because “a definitive link between GMO and cancer." I quit reading there because my mind exploded as a result of the overwhelming stupidity. I have no idea who their target audience is when they pull that as the first punch. That is an extremely weak defense. Here's the response they're flailing against in case anyone is interested... http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/food-and-chemical-toxicology-editor-in-chief,-a.-wallace-hayes,-publishes-response-to-letters-to-the-editors Here is a link that might be useful: Elsevier - Response to Letters to the Editors This post was edited by nc-crn on Thu, Dec 12, 13 at 1:15

I was going to post a new thread but I was glad to see my original post showing up again. My wife decided last fall we needed one or two new kittens. She was jealous because Kaya prefers my company to hers. So we got two kittens from the local shelter and one had distemper. I am glad Kaya got her vaccinations. I spent $500 to cure the male's distemper. The idea for the kittens was they would play with each other and thus bother our very shy Kaya less. Kaya was an only cat for 7 years and she DID NOT like the new additions to the household. Both kittens were very friendly with each other and thought Kaya would welcome them with open arms. The male would charge up to Kaya (in a friendly manner) but she has a personal space of about four feet diameter. Kaya ended up hiding in the walk-in closet 24 hours per day. We tried for about six months to acclimate these cats to each other with no success. We ended taking the male back to the HS which I really regretted because he is/was a really beautiful and nice cat but he was driving Kaya nuts. He was re-adopted in two days and I was not surprised at all, he really was a nice cat and I wish we could have kept him. When these new cats showed up Kaya doubled her weight in a few weeks from about 8 lbs. to about 16 lbs. I think maybe she thought by eating more she could deny the interlopers their food. She used to enjoy playing with my homemade "feline flyer" but now I can't get her to play at all. She seems depressed. She just lays around and sleeps and gains weight. I am thinking by getting these kittens we might have shortened her natural life considerably. She is my first cat, I was a dog person but Kaya changed my attitude 100%, she is a sweetheart and very loving. I had only one dog that came close. The kitten we kept is female and she is a mischievous, climbing SOB. My original love Kaya is still suffering and I am thinking of getting rid of the new cat and my wife right along with her. My marriage started really going downhill with these new cats and it has been getting worse ever since. I am trying to get Kaya to play again with no luck whatsoever. I love my Kaya, she loves me unconditionally which I cannot say about my wife. I am thinking seriously about a divorce from my wife and her seriously misbehaved cat. I am just sick of all the BS.

I don't remember it since I was quite young, but I had bacterial meningitis as a child. The story as it was relayed to me is: I was sick and had a fever. It got worse fairly quickly. When I started to show strange purple blotches on my skin and cry continuously, my mother drove me to the pediatrician. He said he wasn't sure what it was but told my mother to drive directly to the emergency room just to be sure. He then called the hospital and told them she was on the way there with a child with meningococcemia. A team of doctors and nurses were waiting at the curb at the ER, and they grabbed me from her arms and ran into the hospital to start the treatment they had already prepared. The pediatrician later explained that he instantly knew what it was, but felt that my mother could get me to the hospital faster than waiting for an ambulance to come to the doctor's office. He also decided that telling my mother how severe it was might cause her to panic and possibly crash on the way to the hospital.