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20 years old want a kitten dad doesn't approve...how can i change his mind?
I am 19 years old but will be turning 20 in November. I think I am old enough to make my own decisions but it would be easier if i could get my dad to agree with me. I want to get a kitten ideally, but may end up getting a cat i have never owned one before and depending on my lifestyle i may find it easier to get a cat but anyways i would Like a kitten. I have my own apartment i live alone I have an annuity from a family accident from a long time ago and can financially afford my own housing, i have my own car etc i can afford anything i need i pay for college and my bills on my own etc i can afford to have a cat and pay for its vet bills and supplies. I am in an apartment that allows cats and will be moving into a different apartment in 4 months that also allows cats and then i will stay there for the next 4 years. I am in college and only have classes 4 days a week so in my opinion i have enough time to spend with the cat and give it all the loving and attention it desires. I live a low key life. I don't host parties etc just maybe dinners and friends over. The only reason my dad doesn't want me to get a pet is because he thinks it could limit me from doing things like studying abroad or something but in my opinion i was already away for a year my first year of college and came back home. I would rather have a cat that will live for 15-20 years than go to india for 2-4 weeks etc. I understand where he is coming from but i prefer the cat over a trip anyways. I have already told people i am getting the kitten and believe i can handle it but even if my dad doesn't fully agree how can i talk him into this. I know im old enough to make decisions on my own but i still feel like i am going behind his back or trying to avoid talking about it with him when it would be so much easier if we were just on the same page. How can i tell him im doing it anyways without coming off as so rebellious or naive.

Go to your local shelter and fall in love with one of their cats or kittens. Then, tell your dad that you just HAD to save its life. You will feel better about it, and you really WILL be saving a life. You can remain respectful of your father, without him running your life.. That is a big step in growing up. Your dad will have to learn that you are your own woman, now..and that your relationship is changing. If he can't adapt to the changes, it will cause major problems in your future. This is a good first step.
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Can someone read&review my paper on rats for school exams?
(please let me know of any grammatical errors and disreguard numbers. this is for my end-of-the-year exams in animal science. i'd appreciate help to correct any info i may have gotten wrong.) 1. Many people do not realize that both black and brown rats are an introduced species to North America and Europe. Both species of rat are native to Asia Minor. They can be found in large numbers in Japan, China, and India. 2. The brown rat, Rattus Norvegicus, is the domesticated pet rat many people keep today. Their cousin, the black rat, rattus rattus, is the rat that carried the fleas which carried the plague. The rats kept as pets today had absolutely no involvement in the black plague. Very few people are trying to domesticate the more timid black rat, but they are not readily available to adopt. Rats were also used in sport. Rat-baiting was common in the UK in 1853. Dogs were placed into pits with a certain number of rats. Rules varied from match to match, but typically the dog had to kill as many rats as the dog weighed in pounds in the time allotted. A combination of the quickest time, the number of rats and the dog's weight decided the victory. A rate of five seconds per rat killed was considered quite satisfactory; fifteen rats in a minute was an excellent result. The last public competition took place in 1912. 3. Today, the brown rat is used for laboratory testing, companion animals, and often food for reptiles as well. Wild rats that were used in rat-baiting were eventually bred domestically, producing the albino white lab rat known today. Captive bred rats meant for laoratory research have become almost dog like in their temperment. Carefully bred rats with documented genetic history are often used a basis for laboratory research due to their frequent reproduction, genetic purity and similarities to human anatomy. Lab rats are often fed extremely high amounts of a new food additive or injected with large doses of a new chemical compound. Theoretically, if the test product is completely safe for humans, it shouldn't matter if the laboratory rats ingest two hundred times the recommended levels. Rats are very much like dogs, and are becoming a more popular pet in the US because of this. Unlike other rodents, rats very rarely bite. Instead of wanting to stay away from people, many rats crave attention from their owners. They can be trained to do many tricks just as dogs can, and can also be litter box trained like a cat. And contrary to popular belief, rats are actually very clean animals. They groom themselves constantly just as a cat would. Unfortunately, these lovable little animals are often bred and sold as food for snakes. 4. In the wild, rats eat almost anything. They are scavengers by nature. Rats in the wild will eat animal eggs, fruits, vegetation, smaller animals (including mice), and many bugs. In captivity rats are also fed a wide variety of foods. Fresh fruits and vegetables are part of their daily diet along with a specially formulated lab block diet made for rats/mice. 5. To own a rat, it is necessary to have a large wire cage ideal for proper ventilation and climbing opportunities. Many wooden objects should be provided inside the cage to aid the rats' natural chewing instinct and to help keep their teeth at an appropriate length. Many toys should be provided for the rats to keep their minds stimulated. These are very smart animals and, when bored, have been known to self-mutilate. 6. Rats, like all rodents, need a constant supply of things to chew on. Rats' teeth grow constantly throughout their life. Without something to wear their teeth down on, their teeth can become overgrown and cause them to starve. Eventually, if left untreated, their teeth can grow into their brain and kill them if they haven't died of starvation yet. 7-8. Rats are very prone to respiratory diseases. Every rat, aside from lab rats, has mycoplasma. Mycoplasma is a microscopic organism related to bacteria. This can generally be harmless, but when additional infections and irritants are added to a rat's environment, this could cause a myco flare-up, commonly referred to a pneumonia. A rat's condition will go downhill very fast and many will die even with veterinary treatment. To prevent this, rats should be kept in a mold and dust-free environment. A proper diet will also greatly improve their health. Rats are also notorious for being host to many different parasites, most commonly mites and fleas. Both mites and fleas can find their way into store-bought bedding and will start to infest your rats and home once added to their cage. Freezing bedding for 2 days before use is a good way to prevent this from happening. Also, keeping your rat away from other animals that may carry external parasites is always a good idea. Many rats, especially females, are prone to tumors. It is rare for a male to develop one, but most females will die of a mammary tumor. Although a veterinarian may be able to remove the tumor, it (7-8 cont.) Although a veterinarian may be able to remove the tumor, it will most likely come back. This can be prevented by providing a diet with the proper nutritional values of rats. A diet very low in fat and protein is ideal. 9. Rats are very good at keeping themselves clean, much like a cat. They will groom themselves periodically throughout the day. Keeping rats in a clean environment greatly helps them. A rat kept in a feces-ridden cage will become dirty, smelly, and unable to properly clean itself. Providing rats a small dish of water may help. Most rats will dip their hands in the water to clean their face. Rough surfaces in their cage should be provided, such as rocks, to help keep the rat's nails trimmed. Wooden objects should also be provided to aid the rat in keeping their teeth at an appropriate length. 10. Rats reproduce very quickly. They breed during all seasons. A rat's gestation period is from 21-23 days. Litters are typically from 8-12 babies, but as much as 20 is possible. Once babies are born, they are hairless, earless, and eyeless. They will stay with mom, feeding off of her, for the next 3-5 weeks of their lives. At 2 weeks they will have a light coat of fur and open their eyes. At 3 weeks they will start to nibble at food. At 4 weeks most, if not all, babies will be eating on their own. Between 4-5 weeks babies leave mom. At 6 weeks babies become sexually mature. Female rats can become pregnant within 24 hours after birth, therefor making it possible for them to have litters of babies almost constantly. Of course this is very unhealthy though and the mother rat will not live long if she has to nurse babies constantly.

Good info for the most part, there are a few errors. Paragraph 3, line 4, laboratory, not laoratory. Paragraph 7-8, line 4, myco flare ups can lead to pneumonia as a secondary infection, but this is a separate thing. Paragraph 10, line 2, they can have as many as 20 pups, not as much as. Line 4, they are not eyeless, their eyes are sealed shut and open around day 12 or 13. Line 6 They can actually eat solid foods just a couple days after birth as their teeth finish developing very quickly, but they are not able to get enough easily digestible nutrients from solids until 4 to 5 weeks old. Hope this helps!
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Is Graduate School Worth It?
More and more graduate students are forced through post-doc after post-doc because of the lack of enough opportunity in academia and industry. It didn't use to be like this. Academic inflation is outrageous and it leads most every other measure of inflation. The value of an education is becoming questionable, in this age where a B.S. is yesterday's equivalent of a highschool diploma - and almost as unemployable. Regardless, you're paying much more for it today than ever before. Jobs in key industries are being offshored. This used to be true only of manufacturing jobs, but it is now true also of R&D, as major corporations have begun to establish major R&D centers in cheaper countries, like China and India. In addition, for those jobs within our borders, you have to compete with the many foreign graduate students who come to study in the U.S., and who are granted citizenship upon completion of a Ph.D. The result is even greater difficulty securing a job at the Ph.D. and M.S. level, and a dilution of your compensation at that level. Growing up, the only thing we ever heard was that we needed to go to college. They showed us cute images and videos of the space shuttle, atom colliders, nano-materials, lasers, and told us that we'd get to work with cool technologies like those by going to college. And in the middle of it, it was very implicit that you'd be living more comfortably than the kid next to you who didn't go to college. Oh, the irony of it all. Being at the end of this education trainwreck, it's become clear that I'm unemployable, that I will never get the chance to work with anything that's remotely cool, and that I will probably never even get to own a home because I sank myself into a debt that will follow me for all my life - my education debt. Somwhere along the lines, our educational system failed us, and I'm deeply convinced that education simply does not make sense anymore. Academia has become a mere cashcow for university officials who build their careers on the backs of graduate students - who do the teaching for introductory courses, and who do the actual lab work that provides the basis for their publications, so they can further their careers. The higher university officials get corporate-style fat-cat compensation packages that hover around $1million/year, and continue to focus more on making the campus look cute by building outragesouly expensive buildings than in improving the actual quality of education. ...and that is not even getting into the obvious fact that the best researchers make the worst teachers. But universities only want the best researchers - leaving students out in the rain when it comes to actual learning. In many cases, these researchers can't even speak english, and discourage students from even bothering to ask questions. It's so much easier to just change to a non-science field where professors still speak a little bit of english. In all this, the educational lending industry benefits; the textbook publishing industry benefits; academia benefits - all by virtue of the higher revenues that arbitrarily incereasing student enrollments provides. And industry benefits because the supply/demand balance of college graduates gets so tilted, their worth is watered down. Welcome to the world of "new worker deflation" - probably the only thing in this country losing value year after year. And in the end what do they do? They try to save their skin by telling you that the real value of college is "gaining knowledge for knowledge sake". Yeah, but it doesn't have to cost me 100K to gain that knowledge. If it's "knowledge for knowledge sake", how come *they* keep charging you more and more and more? Clearly they can't wait to get their hands in your pockets - but somehow you have to be a good neutered little boy and agree that it's ok, because you're "gaining knowledge". 1. I can learn on my own 2. I'm as unemployable with an M.S. in Engineering as I was without any education 3. I'm deeply in debt 4. I'm 7 years short of time that I could have spent learning a real trade Is graduate school worth it? Thank you, college.

College has become big business. You will study your ass off to do a boring job 40-50 hours a week and the compensation isn't even that great. 100k is crap money compared to what all those "entertainers" make. My Dad is a retired engineer and was moderately wealthy but never a rich man. You need to understand the reality of the situation and accept it. Life is too short to be pissed off. You know how I got back at my college? I stole all of my textbooks from the university bookstore, like $4000 worth of books over the course of 4 years. And I don't feel bad at all. Yeah $4000 is nothing to really hurt them but it was enough to buy me the motorcycle I wanted : )
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