my cat hates taking his pills. the only way we can get him to eat them is to turn it into an elaborate pantomime - we take the packet out of the cupboard slowly and hold it up, saying âoh!! whatâs this? whatâs this? a TREAT? a TREAT for louis????â while making surprised faces. we offer him a pill⌠then, before he has a chance to sniff it, we wag our fingers at him and replace it in the packet so it becomes a Tantalising Forbidden Mystery. we continue doing this until heâs so confused and excited that he will eat the pill as fast as possible, just so he can find out what it is before we can take it away from him again. as soon as heâs eaten it he looks utterly disappointed and betrayed, like a child who just ate a delicious sweet only to find it was a chocolate-coated brussels sprout. it never gets old
Op this is the funniest thing Iâve ever read
op how could you just hide this from me in the tag this makes this objectively 10000000% funnier
50 First Doses
You trick Louis? You trick Louis like a common fool? Oh jail, jail for owners ONE MILLION YE-oh whatâs this? A treat?
Real talk though has anyone else just thrown away a whole Tupperware container bc you left food in there for way too long and now youâre afraid to open it?
All of you are so valid
FYI, that is generally speaking a safe protocol.
Couple of notes. Fungi and bacteria are the first lifeforms discovered to eat plastic. They both use a technique of creating biofilms on and in things to establish colonies; even bacterial and fungi that donât eat plastic will burrow into it. Visual inspection is not generally good enough to preclude fungal ârootsâ in plastic. Though if the plastic has separated (forming like a bubble or a peeling away film) then microbials have almost certainly established ârootsâ in the material. The metabolism of microorganisms denatures plastic even if they donât eat it; this produces toxic biproducts similar to burning plastic.
If something has grown in the tupperwear from it being left along in the wet and the dark with a growth medium for who knows how long then opening it is a bad idea. That will almost certainly aerosolize spores or bacteria that have had long enough time and sufficiently isolated conditions to evolve their own special adaptations.
âCleaningâ and reusing the tupperwear is ill-advised in that case as youâd need a lab to guarentee the plastic isnât compromised and playing host to some nasty biofilm that is resilient against typical cleaning practices, and the plastic itself likely is coming apart in a way that will perpetuate toxicityâlow grade at bestâ even if you did manage to santize the surfaces. Best case scenario, youâre eating microplastic and the tupperwear is shedding as it breaks down over years.
It ainât worth it.
^^^^^^
@venomtots what used to be a random post with no real direction is now actually validating and educational,
I already feel so much better about myself and all the Tupperware bowls Iâve sacrificed
Itâs either death by bacteria or wrath of my mum
I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.
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my brother started calling our cat âdoobie brotherâ which he then lengthened to âdubious brotherâ and has since morphed into âbrother dubiousâ like heâs some sort of fucked up little monk
