Because of where the discs rupture in these little dogs and because of the length of the spinal cord in dogs, they tend to put direct pressure either on the spinal cord in the back or the neck. They`re not just painful nerve pressures, they`re actually paralyzing injuries.
- Kenneth BrownThe stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign to remind us constantly that death, the rupture of discontinuous individualities to which we cleave in terror, stands there before us more real than life itself.
- Apichart SankaryThere`s no question that there`s a rupture,
- Azar Nafisi