If you have to share a house with a dog, you need to be smart. He’s got you outgunned in nearly every way: He’s bigger, he’s cuter, and he sucks up to the humans every chance he gets. Your one chance is to drive him so crazy that they keep him outside. I put salt in his water bowl this morning, and right now I’ve got him convinced there’s a mosquito in the room that keeps biting him.
via Andrew Y., from this list of cute cat posts from BuzzFeed.
Stripes loved hair elastics. Luckily he never learned to shoot them.
Boy it’s almost as if their paws are purposely designed just for such mischief.
mildly amusing, mildly related story. One of my. mom’s co-workers was a bow hunter. He practiced by shooting flies with rubber bands in the office. my mom’s predecessor was not particularly well-liked. so when said former secretary picked up a rubber band that had been used for target shooting and *started flossing her teeth with it* no one said anything. 😬
Is it just me or is the thought of flossing one’s teeth with a rubber band (clean or otherwise) kinda disgusting? 😕
It seems like it would be impossible. Rubber bands are soft. Also N. Fritz’s mother’s place of work sounds like a looney bin. A bow hunter – there’s someone with emotional problems. Who would think that snapping a rubber band at a fly could have the remotest chance of reaching its target? I guess a bow hunter. Flossing your teeth in public in the office?? How would you even wedge a rubber band between your teeth? Oh wait, N. Fritz is joshing us!
Nope! really happened, ca 1980. to make matters worse, it was a university Air Force ROTC office (my mom was the civilian secretary). Her predecessor was, shall we say, a bit odd.
I’m sorry, but I did downvote this one. My late kitty Mookie once swallowed a piece of ribbon, and only by a miracle did he not die from it, instead passing it through his system after a loooooong anxious week. I’m afraid I’m with all the folks who pointed out that “you could put someone’s eye out” where this one is concerned. Strings, ribbons, rubber bands: Very, very dangerous to pets. (I will admit that when he passed the ribbon, the poop-on-a-rope effect was pretty funny—but only because he survived an experience that many cats don’t.)
All that said, Kitty is awfully cute, and I truly do think Mike’s commentary is funny. I just can’t forget how scared I was during the wait to find out whether Mookie would recover. So, yeah, I’m the buzzkill rather than buzzfeed.
I understand your concerns. Rubber bands are banned in my house for the same reason.
Dental floss is dangerous, too, and best disposed of in a closed receptacle.