Your Questions About Bug That Looks Like A Twig

I pulled a long, “brown” worm like bug out of my dog, what is it?

I was petting my dog and noticed something.
I looked at it and saw it was “something” that was stuck to her. In her.
I pulled it with my fingers, nothing. She became agitated. I continued, despite her telling me not to.

Anyway, it was bothering me that this “something” was in her. I assumed it was a tick, my brother dismissed the idea of a tick and assumed it was just a twig or something non-insect like. I got a tweezer, grabbed it and pulled it. Screamed my head off, as it was a REALLY long (about a quarter inch or so (it was longer than it seemed)), worm-like THING! And smashed it.

What was it? After I calmed down. I continued to inspect her entire body and didn’t find any other vermin.

What should I do? Is there something I can give her to protect her like Frontline Advantix(?) or a shampoo/conditioner to bathe her with?

Thank you for your assistance.
It was on the side of her tummy.
She’s been dewormed a long a time ago.
No worms from her butt, thank goodness.
She did not bleed after it was removed. She actually stayed on my lap despite me trying to get up to get the “thing” away from both of us.

This question is geared toward the men…?

I’ve been wondering about something for a long time…I grew up in the 60s and 70s when a voluptuos woman was considered attractive. I’m not talking obese, just not this anorexic look of today. Twiggy, the ultra thin model came in during the late 60s/early 70s, but the “twig” look really didn’t fly and the voluptuos, curvy woman was desired as always. After Olivia Newton-John’s hit single and video, “Lets get physical” came out in the 80s, everyone caught the fitness bug (which isn’t a bad thing), but it seemed to snowball from there and now it’s almost as if one is a leper if they have any shape at all. So I’m curious to know what body type the men of today find attractive the most? Does the boney, scrawny look *really* turn you on?? If so, why? I’m a healthy woman, with some meat on her bones, but I don’t look like the Michelin Man, either (for those who dont know who the Michelin Man is, he’s a tire company icon with “rolls”) so I don’t know if I should stay the same or diet. Help?

Anyone think this is a good intro?

Sitting high up in a tree, Bug sat kicking her nervous legs as she waited for David to walk by. Bug has been following this kid named David ever since the beginning of summer when someone had mysteriously left a three year old boy on top of a building. The weird part was, the kid lived like, thirty minutes away, which means he couldn’t have walked. But the part even weirder then that, was that there was no way onto the roof without a ladder and there wasn’t a ladder out there.
But Bug figured it out—it was this David kid, kidnapper, vandalizer, destroyer of property—this kid had the, I’m-going-to-steal-a-tiny-kid-and-put-him-on-a-roof look all over him. So, Bug decided to catch him in the act. School only broke off a week or two ago, and she still couldn’t scrape any dirt on him. Did he know she was following him? No, of course not, she had been well concealed in trees and bushes and behind cars the whole time she was following him. A drop of disappointment nestled itself in her chest, how long would she have to wait to catch him? At the sound of twigs snapping Bug pulled up her feet and hugged the branch, being extremely careful not to move.
After a moment David ran past, Bug only seeing a black blur flee below her. Curious, she reached her head forward and let it fall, hands holding the branch, her head was completely upside and staring after a very fast David. Why was he running? Bug held the pose for a moment until her head started to feel dizzy and then swooped back upward going over what she had just saw. Running away from the scene of a crime? Maybe… but he’d only been gone a few minutes—and Bug had followed him all the way to the clearing where he normally sat on a flat rock that baked in a stream of light. The small car sized clearing was smacked up against a cliff side and the only area you could easily walk through was the path they had come. Knowing it might be a while, and too risky to hide with him so close, Bug hiked back and found a nice tree to hide in, so when he passed she could just climb back down and follow him out back to the roads.
Too blundered up in thought, Bug completely missed the large fat brown mound that crawled across the ground. Its bristly face and snout sniffing the dewy ground. A bear. As Bug finally saw it a shrill cry escaped her thirteen year old mouth and the bear looked up. His eyes coal black and his snout and face was red, juice dripping from some bristles. Bug clamped her mouth closed and pulled her legs as high up as possible as the huge bear stood on two legs and sniffed up at her.

its kinda weird but (a story where people gotz powers… again) this girl Bug (:D i wanted to name her June but then i was like, why not her name be June and everyone call her Bug?? wants adventure, to be liked, known, a hero(how cliche;) so she wants to figure out this mystery. David, little does she know, can fly. And as she finds out, she realized that he was trying to save the kid and that David is in deep trouble with this villian. She wants to help… but David denys and, well, she helps him in the end. SOUND GOOD? lol critism, suggestion, critiques the works.

email me for questions:p

I think my son may have some sort of weight disease?

Ever since I adopted my 14 year old son when he was 13 I’ve been noticing that he is much skinnier than all of his friends. I’ve known him throughout his middle school years because I was his teacher but I always figured it was none of my business but now that he’s my son, I feel like I should know. He doesn’t know why he’s just always thought he was naturally skinny but I’m starting to get more and more worried because for whatever reason he seems to be getting skinnier and skinnier. I’ve really been bugging him about trying to keep his weight up but he still weighs the same as he did before. As a matter of fact he lost half a pound. We’re going to take him to the doctors sometime next week but until then I just wanna make sure that he’ll okay for the time being. Thanks!
More information:
he has a…
-fast metabolism
-always been naturally skinny
-has promised he isn’t anorexic and wants to gain weight so he’ll “not look like a twig”
-digestive disorders…we think (it doesn’t take much for him to throw up and diarrhea is common with him)
-often stomach aches that seem to be very painful
Thanks again!
-Jason
Sorry forgot to add the actual question, is this a disease and if it is should I be worried and what’s it called?

Are there categories of typical problems in programming.?

Is this example a typical problem in programming?

Problem:
There was no risk management of the project.

Programmer was approving his own changes to weapon control (L/R steer).

Programmer was approving his own changes to alunch software for salvoes of cruise missiles.

Programmer was alerted to a problem that showed up in a simulator at simulated high sea state. Programmer didn’t twig that there was a bug in the launcher code. Programmer set a “deadline” to fix the problem, which amounted to saying “Don’t fix anything. I don’t think you’re up to the job”.

So if “programming” means “devising a credible program to release a seaworthy system” then very little programming seems to have taken place.

So to me it looks like some category of programming problem.