u/Fantastic_Fig_2025

Vet recommendations?

Hi all,

I have been going to Mill Brook Animal Clinic for about 7 years. Over the past year, things have taken a turn for the worse. The administrative experience is atrocious. No one picks up the phone half the time. When you do, I swear it must be a call center because no one has any info. We just got a call that our dog is going to need this big procedure when our last appointment was just for some yearly blood work, which came back normal.

I'm nervous about trusting Google as Mill Brook still has high ratings. Is Porter Square still good? Or Arlington Animal Clinic? We are in need of a place that can handle dental care and dogs who are scared of vets (she tries to hide).

I feel like I made a terrible mistake going to Mill Brook, and it is costing my dog dearly.

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u/Fantastic_Fig_2025 — 21 hours ago

Is this wild violet or periwinkle?

Hi all! I read a post about wild violets being native to New England. I gleefully thought I had a reason to suggest we don't eradicate the pretty purple "weeds" in our shared yard. A kind redditor, though, warned me to double check that it isn't actually periwinkle, which is invasive.

Y'all, I googled and stared at photos for the better part of thirty minutes, and I can't quite tell what I have here. I'm assuming it is periwinkle because we have bad luck and the leaves don't seem heart shaped. I feel like I'm somehow plant-blind.

Can anyone confirm based on the photo?

Y'all: thank you!!!! I'm so happy!

u/Fantastic_Fig_2025 — 4 days ago

Be careful if you cancel your Google Home Premium

I bought a nest doorbell way back when and had been paying for nest aware ever since.

Six months ago, I cancelled because my doorbell kept going offline, would say there was no activity when I could clearly see people on my porch, and would not recognize people as people, instead marking them as motion. The final straw was when the car directly in front of my house was broken into and the door bell sensed nothing for so long, it stopped recording.

Lately, it's gotten better and I got a reminder that my subscription is going to end. Try as I might, I couldn't find a way to resubscribe. After hours with Google support, I found out I can't. I have to wait for my membership to end, and then I need to make a new account. I'll lose all of my history. There's no way to avoid this.

I now have once again lost the incentive to subscribe.

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u/Fantastic_Fig_2025 — 6 days ago

Is this tree girdled?

I'm wondering if this tree is girdled? After all of the snow melted from this past winter, we noticed that my neighbor's tree, which is next to my driveway, had a bunch of bark missing. We suspect it is from the large bunny rabbit population which took out a few other smaller saplings. Do we think this tree is in danger of falling over? Should we have an arborist come look at it?

u/Fantastic_Fig_2025 — 12 days ago