u/fenrirsbasketball

Hey all,

I've had my iPhone 12 pro for a while now, and I haven't had any issues other than recently my screen protector and case I had from when I first bought the phone finally started to give out. My screen protector is cracked to the point where it's beginning to shatter and is becoming sharp.

Basically, I'm due for a replacement.

I know shops used to do this for you, but since we're in iPhone 16 at this point, whenever I go into an Apple store or a Verizon store, they won't replace it for me, which is annoying. They don't even carry cases or screen protectors for older models! Dumb.

So I want to buy a good screen protector, but I'm not sure how much has changed. I think I used to get Gorilla Glass for the screen and then Otterbox for the case itself. is all that still legit? Anything better come out? I want to make this baby last

How's it going lovely cat people of reddit?

Full disclosure, I'm a licensed vet tech who works in nutrition and pet food, but my own damn cat has me and my bosses stumped, and I'd love the input and possible testimonial insight from you all. This is a very long post. Leave now if you are not in the mood for a rollercoaster medical mystery of all things poop and cat food. You have been warned.

My sweet, scaredy cat guy had a near FLUTD blockage in 2017, a mess of struvite crystals upon urinalysis, and was on Royal Canin urinary SO, both moderate calorie and regular depending on his weight, for years without issue. His poops have never been optimal, but he never really had diarrhea or soft serve stool consistency, so we just let his poops be ~special because he didn't seem to have any issues otherwise, and it never worsened. UNTIL THIS YEAR.

My wife and I and the cats had unexpected travel trauma, needing to move from one county to another with an unbelievable amount of stress (lots of things going wrong trying to move as well as family dying left and right), and then after that we were unable to find a permanent place to live, so we had to stay in airbnbs for one month at a time for an additional year. None of this is ideal, and our other cat did end up with some stress cystitis and a little UTI. She's fine now. :)

My 12y male suddenly decided not only that he didn't like the Royal Canin SO kibble, but also that it was going to give him diarrhea after years of semi-regular poops. I tried adding pumpkin, I tried adding fortiflora, I tried Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Fiber Response (believing it could be fiber responsive GI upset), I tried Hill's GI Biome, I tried the wet and dry versions of all of those. He actually ended up with megacolon from all the fiber, so we put him back on Royal Canin SO for a while, and he seemed to be fine and his poops were acceptable temporarily.

Fast forward, and he has full blown diarrhea on the regular, but will also fully starve himself if presented with anything other than crunchy brown rocks. He dropped a pound in weight in his personal protest, which scared the shit out of me, so I brought him in for full bloodwork and a GI panel (folate, cyanocobalamin, etc) to see if any chronic enteropathy could be pointed out. CBC/Chem/UA/T4. ALL BLOODWORK WAS COMPLETELY NORMAL LOL. The only thing I haven't shelled out for is an ultrasound, but the sudden move has me strapped for cash, and given the normal bloodwork, I'm not convinced an ultrasound would tell me much else.

Soooooo where I have arrived with my vet was that he just didn't want to eat this food. We've tried every single Royal Canin urinary flavor acceptable in wet food, same with Hill's, same with Purina; he won't eat it for more than one or two meals before going on a hunger strike again. We even have him on Mirtazapine, which I know is working because he screams at me 24/7. He STILL won't eat wet food for more than a few licks and then will just stare at me and scream until I give him kibbles.

I've tried every trick in the book to get him to eat more. Every single one. I've even tried to hand feed him boiled chicken, and he turned it down. Chicken!!! What cat doesn't eat chicken smdh. I've sat with him on the floor while he eats in case he was scared and needed company. Nothing works for long.

He has currently been on Hill's C/D wet and dry oceanfish, which has been okay aside from the fact that he just really doesn't like it. We tried the chicken flavor, and he liked that even less. I considered Hill's C/D multicare stress to help with his possible stress issues, but it has less calories per can, so I didn't want to set him to up to eat even less calories in a day when he's already a skinny boy.

We also tried a calming supplement, Purina Calming Care, to see if that would help. It has not. He rarely eats enough of the wet food to get most of the supplement.

So listen, thanks for getting this far. The sleep deprivation has me approaching clinical insanity. Here are the theories:

1. Stress related pickiness and possibly stress induced colitis or even IBD (though the GI markers for IBD were all within normal limits on the GI panel, so likely not IBD. We're not doing a biopsy to officially find out.)

2. Fiber responsive GI upset -- his poops are picture perfect a very low fiber diet, typically in wet food, which is next to impossible to find in a kibble, especially one that also addresses struvite prevention

3. (Less likely) Sudden onset of protein allergy, specifically chicken or pork. I have considered switching him to something like Royal Canin SO + Hydrolyzed, but hydrolyzed diets are notoriously less palatable, and if pickiness is his prominent issue, I don't think hydrolyzed is the way to go. I'd rather go novel protein.

4. He wants me to suffer. I have considered this every time he wakes me up at 2 or 3am with an absolute cannon blasting liquid diarrhea, even more so when he steps in it after. (I don't actually believe he wants me to suffer. He is the sweetest boy in the whole world, and if anything I think he just thinks it's cannon blasting time and goes on with his day after like nothing happened.)

Foods I'm considering

• Farmina N&D Duck for Urinary Tract Blah Blah kibble

• Tuna out of the can mixed with boiled rice. It's clearly not nutritionally balanced, but if solid-ish poops are the focus, this would be low fiber, and the white rice would be a phenomenal low fiber starch to bind the shit out of poop without offending the intestines or bulking up the stool like insoluble fiber.

• That's it. I'm fresh of moves and mental energy, and I've got an apartment full of half finished bags of food he won't eat and I can't donate because they're opened.

If you made it this far, thank you for your patience, and feel free to say whatever you want. I am not at the end of my rope, because that was 20 yards ago. I am well beyond that and bordering on delirium. Help me, please. Any tips, tricks, insight, diets that worked for your stubborn picky scaredy cats, I will take with eternal gratitude. <3

Hi there!

I'm a 264ilvl prot warrior who has been greatly enjoying t11 delves and blasting through heroics, but I want to up the challenge a bit and get into mythic dungeons. I've got some great guildies to help me out and be patient, but I wanted to see if there was any way to make the routes more obvious without needing to study a 30 minute video for each possible dungeon we do.

The current soft glow of the outlined mobs isn't really that noticeable when there's a million other things going on, so I'm hoping for something more obvious.

Like many of you, I've got a family and a full time job, so I'm not interested in having "homework", really. But if there's a bright glowing arrow or a series of pings, I can follow that happily. I am a warrior with a warrior zug brain, after all.

Anyone have any tips to help make the route more obvious? I'd love to somewhat shut off my brain and just zug with my buddies. I'd appreciate some advice other than git gud or roll dps. Our group needs a tank, and I like tanking. :-)

Thank you in advance. <3