Hi Debrah:  Off subject.  But just wanted to let you know that our cat had ear mites and hates the medicine too.  I found a product called "Revolution" on the internet.  It is from Australia.  You administer like "Advantage" on the back of the neck.  So much easier.  Kills ear mites, fleas, ticks and worms.  Worth the extra cost.

Yes the 'revolution' will kill deep ear mites better than the stuff you put in the ear.  Sometimes the mites migrate out of the ear and then return or they go deep under ear wax and hide.  

But I wonder how safe that 'back of the neck' stuff is.  I think that all the RX for pets is just as bad as RX for people.  Made by some of the same companies....

This is very interesting. Although being quite interested by the content of this site I have never posted here before, but this time I feel compelled.  

My 'gripe' is the way that animal products are often touted as the healthy option - in terms of being an important protein source.  This may well be true - I am not a dietary expert (though I do try to follow what the scientific and alternative communities tell us about diet) - even so it cannot justify the way animals are continually being killed for a food source.  Of course there are environmental reasons not to kill animals for food, but as the video shows there are also quite clear moral/spiritual/philosophical reasons.              

It may well be that in the not so distant future we will wake up and realize that we have collectively perpetrated the greatest, most abominable and systematic genocide in the history of humankind.

When will the 'lions lay down with the lambs', when we show no regard for, and are killing them on such a scale? (thats a biblical ref.)

Bongodrummer,

Animals are not the only living beings we use as a source for food. Plants are also a food source, so then, are plants a less important life form than animals? Taking the religious angle, God is present in all life. All life is precious to God, the lilies of the field, the sparrow, etc. So, which life is "better" to take for food. We have to eat to live. I remember reading about (granted MANY! years ago) a study done with plants. The plants were connected to some type of monitoring device, and the study demonstrated that the plants reacted negatively to people who had injured them previously. As I said, I read this almost 45 years ago, so the details are totally gone. The overall impression has stayed with me all these years though. EVERYTHING has the life force, and its own level of intelligence. Just because we do not recognize it, does not mean it is not there. So now why is it wrong to consume animals as food, but not plants? In the Old Testament, it is clearly stated that there are some animals which can be used as food. The issue, to me, is how inhumanely are are food source animals treated? I will not buy feed lot meat any longer, not just because they are so unhealthy, but also because they are so inhumanely treated. It is not the eating of animals that is so wrong, but our abominable treatment of them. I thank the animal/plant for giving its life so I may eat, as well as my spiritual source.

Now I just need to figure out how to communicate to my cat that he shouldn't capture birds...

The scriptures are right when they say that "man dominates man to his own injury". With all the glory of being human and having higher intelligences like language and free will, we also have a dark side.