• @roofuskit@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It’s not even a challenge, one drop of rogaine will brick any cat. All you have to do is touch them with it.

      Edit: don’t fucking do this you sickos.

      • @Grass@sh.itjust.works
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        83 days ago

        oh my fucking god. is this why when I was a kid my friend’s cat went from super healthy to extremely sickly and died the next morning? his dad definitely used rogaine

        • @roofuskit@lemmy.world
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          113 days ago

          It contains an enzyme their body cannot process and it effectively poisons them to death. I believe it attacks the nervous system.

          • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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            103 days ago

            Oh. Damn. Good thing I found this out.

            I mean, I never have actually touched rogaine, but this is kinda like when I was 4, and I was going to feed a dog a piece of chocolate. The dog wanted chocolate, I wanted to share, suddenly I’m getting my hand slapped and yelled at.

            Like c’mon! We JUST watched a seseme street last week about how good sharing is! Now my wrist hurts!

            THEN she tells me dogs can’t have chocolate! Like I’m just supposed to just KNOW a dogs digestive system! I’m still learning colors and shapes, and you’re asking me to know biology of dogs!

            So, no dogs have died from chocolate from me, and now I know if I lose my hair, and have a cat, I can’t have rogaine. Because I assume I’ll be sleeping, and you just KNOW my cat is gonna be the weirdo cat who licks people in their sleep. Suddenly I wake up with a dead cat.

            So good thing I learned now.

            • @protist@mander.xyz
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              73 days ago

              Turns out dogs are perfectly fine eating milk chocolate. I know this because I had a dog who jumped up on a table and ate an entire package of Hershey’s kisses once. We thought she was a goner, but poison control said she’d be fine and she was. High quality dark chocolate is what poisons dogs

              • @tuck182@lemmy.world
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                22 days ago

                Chocolate is what poisons dogs. There’s just a much higher concentration of it in dark chocolate than milk chocolate. Too much milk chocolate can still kill a dog, and “too much” isn’t even all that much. 8 ounces of milk chocolate for a 30 pound dog is enough to be concerned about.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      13 days ago

      A clamp (padded, preferably) on the scruff of the neck will temporarily brick a cat.

      Try this only with familiar cats with whom you have rapport.

      Don’t leave them for too long. A few minutes at most.

        • @Verat@sh.itjust.works
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          13 days ago

          But he only said he scruffed them (if I am reading it right), not that he grabbed them by the scruff, is this apparently something that is considered abusive or something? If a cat claws at my leg and I pinch there to make it stop that is absolutely not the same as grabbing them there. I would never actually try lifting them that way.

          • lad
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            It doesn’t work on all the cats, though. Also, I heard that it’s not painful for a cat to be lifted that way, but I would prefer not to.

            Edit: I was wrong

        • Pennomi
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          33 days ago

          That’s where the term “catatonic” comes from, or so I’ve heard, and it’s a reflex because mother cats carry their babies by the scruff of their neck. From what I understand it’s totally harmless.

          Someone who actually knows these things can correct me if I’m wrong of course.