u/Motor_Grocery_266

i take my 7 month old puppy on 3 20 min walks daily. there is one persons yard where she goes absolutely APESHIT in. she jumps up on the slope of the yard, sniffs at the mulch at the base of the tree, stares at me (sometimes this step is skipped), sniffs again, then starts running in circles around me, biting the leash trying to play, jumping up at me, laying down then taking off. shes 50 pounds and she is fast as hell i do not doibt for a SECOND she could rip my shoulder out of socket with how fast her reaction is. she never goes back to smell the mulch after she has that reaction. i am just so curious as to what it could be. she acts like she gets a short high from what she smells and i cant get her to listen to commands (shes so good at listening to commands she is a good girl). we have coyotes occasionally and bunnies but i have NEVER heard her bark outside before except for a couple times after she smells in front of this house. could it be a drug could it be pesticides could it be coyote pheromones could it be a dead animal WHAT COULD IT BEEEEEEE. (I also dont discipline her for this behavior because i know shes just alerting me that there is something afoot)

hi.

im transferring to my big girl university next spring. im excited. i am planning to go out of state for this. i do not feel satisfied living here anymore and i want better options for schooling. im starting applications this fall and winter.

im planning on applying to UNC, UGA, NYU, and a few other colleges on the east coast and in the south. does anyone have any experience with transferring and how exactly all of it works? i need more advice but my advisor kind of told me not to apply to schools that "arent easily transferrable" which that is the least of my concerns to have it easily transferrable, i have very high hopes for myself and my future and to be quite frank, i do not like an easy way out and i prefer to be challenged, even if it makes me crazy. im a very stubborn woman.

but again. does anyone have any pointers or any advice for a stubborn woman who wants to transfer out of state to a school that is more prestigious?!?!

i have a 6.5 month old American Pit Bull Terrier/ Great Pyrenees mix. the light of my life, truly. she is so well behaved and listens and understands me like i would have never even imagined.

Im in college full time (im going into my sophomore year, i started college at 24 years old), i have Ulcerative Colitis which leaves me feeling ill on occasion, and i also have a part time job.

i feel like i do NOT do enough for her. mornings typically look like a ten min poo/pee walk (i am bathroom bound for about two hours after i wake up due to my medical condition) and play time after that while i multitask getting ready for the day, breakfast, feeding her and all of the usual morning things. at around 9 i go to work or i start my online school work. around noonish we go on a walk thats 30 mins and is about a mile long and i let her smell absolutely every single thing she wants to smell, come back in and play while i do more homework. shell nap sometimes and then around 3-4 we go on another 30 min walk where i let her sniff. that walk is also about a mile. after that we come in and i start my dinner, shower etc etc. when i go to work (i only work all days mondays and thursdays, the other 5 days of the week she has me at home all day) she is in her kennel until i come home. i work 6 hour shifts and she holds her bladder well and the walks on those days are just one 45 min long one.

i still just feel like shes SO BORED. i know APBT are such a high energy dog, but Great Pyrenees are pretty chill. she never minds just hangin out. i just wish i could do MORE for her. i give her enrichment toys pretty frequently, and she is genuinely such a smart dog and so so so obedient and listens to me when i say something. shes still a puppy. and i have to remember that she is also a rescue. she is not at the pound anymore and she would rather spend 5 days a week with me and a few hours in the kennel a day when i go to appointments and run errands. she isnt locked up 24/7 bored out of her mind. i just am feeling so guilty like i cant do enough for her :-(

HEY!

i got my colonoscopy last week and started prednisone this sunday after they found "chronic colitis" the dr said she thinks its UC but im getting a referral to a specialist to 100% confirm because if its not "YOU HAVE _____." Ill psych myself into thinking i have a completely different diagnosis. i had a mayo score of 2 in my colon and a mayo score of 3 in my rectum :/ i dont know why she couldnt just say "you have ___" because the letter that was sent was so confusing

im feeling fucking fabulous for not sitting on the toilet every hour on the hour for 30 mins at a time. this is a dream (minus the little sleep because of bathroom trips in the night) and i feel so powerful and like i can do anything. the prednisone has me drinking so much water and my sodium intake is crazy. My mouth craves the sodium snacks but honestly im not mad after 7 almost 8 months of basically starving because my body got no nutrients whatsoever. im just thankful that i can actually eat food without having to worry about sitting on the toilet for the foreseeable future. that has been a blessing

does anyone have any recommendations for workout routines that wont tire my body out to no end? I am trying to find some bit of normalcy but i understand this is an autoimmune disease and a chronic illness and that can limit what bodies can or can not do. I dont want to send myself into a flare for overworking my body at all. i used to be so active in the gym but i think my body needs something thats not so intense like lifting heavy weights and doing a hiit cardio routine. i am trying to get back into the routine of 30 min walks with my dog and we would walk 1 mile in that time, twice a day. but my body wants more!

i finally got a diagnosis. after what felt like the longest 7 months of my life. one failed colonoscopy (it was light sedation and i fought it then it took 4 more months to get rescheduled for full anesthesia) and then the next doctor that did it finally got it and found lots of ulcers and cuts. she said i was a 2 on the mayo score? i know its bad but not sure what it means. she ran a ton of blood tests to see if its chrons or UC. i knew it all along. i was in so much pain for so long. i feel so angry and frustrated but also relieved that i have an answer. i am so scared to start my steroids. im doing the biological transfusions? im still so confused about all of this. This sucks. Im sad i have to live with this for the rest of my life. I already knew i would have to but the colonoscopy really sealed the deal. everything feels so fragile. Also why did the doctor tell me the meds are 200,000 dollars. Thats insane. Thats a load of bullshit. Who has that kind of money.

edit: my calprotectin was 1200 for the full 7 months :) how awesome