Twiglet

@Twiglet@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fireworks: Vet sees rise in owners asking for Bonfire Night sedatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of hard when it’s a once-per-year event. Desensitisation is an effective training strategy, but takes time and effort. You might have some success with loud fireworks recordings, but nothing can really replicate the pure noise, light, reverberation and smell of the real deal.

  Medicating pets for a day or two is not the end of the world and helps them not having to experience the utter helpless panic.

  I have a real beef with the anti-medication crowd, they completely ignore how life altering it can be for those that need them, just because they don’t suffer themselves so don’t see the need for anyone to have them.

  It’s it better not to need them? Of course. Should you try alternatives first? Absolutely. Is it a failure if it turns out the medication is the only thing that actually helps? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prime Minister to create ‘smokefree generation’ by ending cigarette sales to those born on or after 1 January 2009⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it only affected the user, sure, but the reality of it is that the smoke contaminates everything around it.

  I was in my 20’s when I realised it’s not normal to mop your walls every year, also made the connection that moving out reduced my migraines. I did not realise just how much I stank everywhere I went thanks to my mum’s smoking, and coming back off holiday from smoke free relatives I felt my throat and eyes burn as I was settling back in at home.

  My neighbours a few doors down sometimes smoke in the garden when the weather is nice, so I have to shut all my windows and retreat indoors if I want to keep breathing freely.

  It’s a lot better than it used to be, but it still restricts my comfort and quality of life if someone nearby decides they have the individual right to smoke.