I mean, in theory, yes? But…a hockey rink won’t actually turn into a swimming pool all that well. The base is usually a piece of plywood, with some plastic for the landmarks and logos and such, and then a couple inches of clear ice over top of that.
Also, the sides of a rink are not waterproof, and also-also you don’t want people swimming around with sharp blades on their feet. Nor do you want people trying to skate in slushy ice, it’s a safety hazard.
There are certainly muzzles designed with a more brachycephalic head in mind, as it’s a growing issue as these breeds become more popular and many of them have no manners, anxiety disorders, painful conditions or outright aggression.
Some of them are basically cat muzzles, which have a bit of the ‘Hannibal Lecter’ look going on.
Which have the advantage of preventing the animal from seeing what it’s doing, but it can’t pant very well.
Or there’s the ‘air muzzles’ which take particular care to preserve airflow with the ‘fishbowl look’.
Though I haven’t had a chance to try these out yet.
Brachycephalic dogs present a particular challenge as there’s a fine line between muzzling the patient and having it pass out because it can’t breathe. Sometimes if they are small enough I will place an entire anaesthetic mask over its head and then just restrain the front legs so it can’t get it off, or cover the head in a towel and hope for the best.
If I don’t need to access the head, sometimes I will try rolling a towel up like a sausage, wrapping that around the neck as a squishy way to aim the bitey bits away and restrain the head that way rather than with something firm.
Solid E-Collars (elizabethan collars) can also be used sometimes, though they’re not as comfortable for the holder.
The ‘air muzzle’ also has the benefit of making it look like this is a canine astronaut.
There are certainly muzzles designed with a more brachycephalic head in mind, as it’s a growing issue as these breeds become more popular and many of them have no manners, anxiety disorders, painful conditions or outright aggression.
Some of them are basically cat muzzles, which have a bit of the ‘Hannibal Lecter’ look going on.
Which have the advantage of preventing the animal from seeing what it’s doing, but it can’t pant very well.
Or there’s the ‘air muzzles’ which take particular care to preserve airflow with the ‘fishbowl look’.
Though I haven’t had a chance to try these out yet.
Brachycephalic dogs present a particular challenge as there’s a fine line between muzzling the patient and having it pass out because it can’t breathe. Sometimes if they are small enough I will place an entire anaesthetic mask over its head and then just restrain the front legs so it can’t get it off, or cover the head in a towel and hope for the best.
If I don’t need to access the head, sometimes I will try rolling a towel up like a sausage, wrapping that around the neck as a squishy way to aim the bitey bits away and restrain the head that way rather than with something firm.
Solid E-Collars (elizabethan collars) can also be used sometimes, though they’re not as comfortable for the holder.
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i told everyone i was going to vacuum the kitchen and to stay out for a few minutes, and literally in the time it took me to go get the vacuum cleaner someone accidentally left their glass in the water dispenser and flooded the entire kitchen.
How…?
i know this isn’t a legit question but since i’m at maximum petty at this moment let me just describe the level of ennui in my house. my dad doesn’t like to stand there and hold a water glass under the fridge dispenser for the ~8 seconds it takes to fill a glass so he macgyvered it so you can just jam a glass in there and let it do its thing.
and by macgyvered i mean he took it apart, removed the spring mechanism, and bought a whole set of new glasses that are the perfect size so that they wedge in the dispenser.
that’s what i’m dealing with. my dad surgically altered the fridge and bought an entire glass tableware set so that he wouldn’t have to hold a glass in the dispenser for 8 seconds.
he’s done this with almost everything in the house. he was tired of having to latch and unlatch gates so he cut off the latches and taped industrial strength magnets in their place. he hooked up the chicken coop door to a circuit board and a solar array so it opens and closes automatically. years after he divorced my mom, one of her toilets broke and when the plumber opened it up it was full of corks that my dad had somehow tied into a functioning flush mechanism, presumably so he wouldn’t have to go buy real parts at the hardware store we lived next door to. we’re talking a walk of thirty feet from toilet to hardware store counter, max. it was literally just operating on cork power. for all those years. we never knew.
anyway that’s how.
Is your father a software engineer? Because I’m getting a very distinct whiff of “software engineer” from this post.
I mean, in theory, yes? But…a hockey rink won’t actually turn into a swimming pool all that well. The base is usually a piece of plywood, with some plastic for the landmarks and logos and such, and then a couple inches of clear ice over top of that.
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