Posted by Ric on August 19th, 2008
People are giving drugs Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac to their dogs and other pets to calm them down. To stop them barking for instance. Blows my mind.
Can you imagine?
I was buying some tea at Tealish at 198 Walnut Ave. just south of Queen Street here in Toronto. I bought some Rooibos (also known as Red Bush, or Red Tea) a herbal tea that grows wild in South Africa and it is naturally caffeine-free. I’m enjoying some now. Yum!
So back to barking dogs.
I started chatting with another customer whose dog started barking as she walked into the store. Apparently Jake, a one year old puppy, had just started doing this. She was looking for ways to help him stop doing this. In the course of our conversation she mentioned that she was doing a film about Dogs on Drugs. I said your’re kidding. She said no she wasn’t.
Apparently some people have begun to give their dogs drugs such as Prozac to calm them down so they would not bark.
Are these people brain dead?
And who is selling them the Prozac?
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Posted by Ric on August 16th, 2008
It was very good to spend the evening with Mandaza at the Spirituality in Healthcare Network event.
He shared his wisdom and commented on a wide variety of issues.
The evening began with us connecting with the Spirits being lead by Larry Nussbaum and his drum. Larry invited those of us who wished to go to a table that he had setup and retrieve an Instrument of Mass Percussion - a wide selection of drums, rattles and so on.
We started with silence. After awhile someone began to shake a rattle. Voices sounded. Rattles and drums and so on and more voices joined in. We were connected.
Mandaza was introduced and welcomed by a number of speakers.
Mandaza spoke. He had a list of topics that had been presented to him that he had been asked to speak about. I won’t go through the whole list. I can’t remember them.
But two things, two things stuck in my mind.
One was that we need to look to the future and care for the children. All the children everywhere. We the adults are responsible. That the child who today we are throwing in prison for shooting someone with a gun was using a gun designed and produced by adults. The guns were there when s/he was born. He spoke at some length about the importance of we as adults are responsible for what the children become - all children and all adults. Worth thinking about don’t you think?
The other thing that really landed on me was the idea that while we need to take care of Mother Earth by stopping what we are doing to hurt Her through pollution and so on, that at the end of the day if we do not stop hurting Her we could all be dead BUT Mother Earth will still be here.
Mother Earth does not need us but we surely need Her. Worth thinking about I think.
The other one that really struck me was
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Posted by Ric on August 11th, 2008
Over the past few weeks I have been I have been taking stock of my life and looking at where I have been and where I am going.
Part of this process was the realization that I hadn’t been following my bliss. Sure, I had been doing that in part but not wholeheartedly. And part of this realization was that it was time to sell the job boards that I had created a few years ago. There are 4 of them:
I had been approached a few months ago by a large marketing firm who wanted to know if I was interested in selling the job boards. They made me an offer but the offer wasn’t large enough to make a huge difference in my life so I declined. I have been working at increasing revenue on the boards and things are moving ahead - a little ahead of schedule. So I decided last week that it was time to formally let the Universe know that I am ready to sell.
IT Headhunter Job Board Network For Sale
I’ve listed the websites as being For Sale with sedo to begin the process.
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