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Re: Random, Random 2.0

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dryrunguy wrote: Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:46 am
ti-amie wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:27 pm They started early with the fireworks here. My daughter gave her cats calming treats as soon as it started.
I'm sure y'all have seen this already, but just in case you haven't...

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How to give a cat a pill ... and a dog, too
How to give a cat a pill:
Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.

Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.

Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.

Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.

Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse from garden.

Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.

Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.

Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil, and blow down drinking straw.

Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.

Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door onto neck, to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band.

Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of Scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw T-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.

Call fire department to retrieve the damn cat from tree across the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil-wrap.

Tie the little @!!@#@#$%'s front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy-duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of steak filet. Be rough about it. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.

Consume remainder of Scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and remove pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table.

Arrange for SPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.

How to give a dog a pill:
Wrap it in cheese.

(Submitted by Dr. John Delack, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... PMC372253/[/url]
:lol: :lol: :lol: I'd use ponchi101's laughing until I cried emoji if I could find it.
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Hilarious, but makes you wonder if they've ever had a dog. Our dog would pick off the cheese, eat it, and spit out the pill. Same with peanut butter - she'd just lick it off and spit out the pill. It is NOT that easy to feed a pill to a dog that refuses it.

Basically we'd have to force the pill down her throat by keeping her mouth closed while she stubbornly sat with the pill in her mouth, and once she finally swallowed, check her mouth for evidence of remaining pill. Then of course give her a treat as if she'd done something right.
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Re: Random, Random 2.0

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Shadow was like that, too. We'd put a pill inside a slice of hot dog, and he almost always figured out a way to eat the hot dog without the pill.

Polly is a different story. She'll eat anything without batting an eye.
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dave g wrote: Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:51 am ...

:lol: :lol: :lol: I'd use ponchi101's laughing until I cried emoji if I could find it.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

(and it is
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Together, of course).

I read it ages ago. Still a classic.
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dryrunguy wrote: Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:46 am
ti-amie wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:27 pm They started early with the fireworks here. My daughter gave her cats calming treats as soon as it started.
I'm sure y'all have seen this already, but just in case you haven't...

::

How to give a cat a pill ... and a dog, too
How to give a cat a pill:
Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.

Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.

Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.

Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.

Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse from garden.

Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.

Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.

Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil, and blow down drinking straw.

Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.

Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door onto neck, to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band.

Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of Scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw T-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.

Call fire department to retrieve the damn cat from tree across the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil-wrap.

Tie the little @!!@#@#$%'s front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy-duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of steak filet. Be rough about it. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.

Consume remainder of Scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and remove pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table.

Arrange for SPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.

How to give a dog a pill:
Wrap it in cheese.

(Submitted by Dr. John Delack, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... PMC372253/[/url]
She put it in their food.
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Growing up, my golden retriever once swallowed a hard boiled egg whole. He would devour a hot dog with just one bite. Basic food inhalation. We could hide pills in food for him easily.
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Finally bought flight tickets to Riga to visit parents and sister beginning of August. Surprisingly cheap, only ca 290 $ return. I haven't been there since last June... Getting my second vaccine shot just in time this Sunday.
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Hope you will have a great time. That is not a bad fare.
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Some people, including fabulously rich ones, are a bit odd. Was just reading that Elon Musk has sold all his properties (worth 100 million or so) to be free of an attachment to any concrete place and now stays in a house worth just 50k next to his Starbase in Texas.
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Seeing how he could go and buy 1,000 times that amount of real estate, he can live wherever. I wonder how long he stays in one place.
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ponchi101 wrote: Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:20 pm Seeing how he could go and buy 1,000 times that amount of real estate, he can live wherever. I wonder how long he stays in one place.
I have a feeling he plows an enormous amount of time and personal money in Spacex which after all makes no money and won't for some years still. Of course Tesla also still there and the actual source of his wealth.

I think both are among the most innovative engineering companies on the planet. Stuff what Spacex is accomplishing compared to old space companies is just :notworthy: Having said that they also take a lot of risk and one large accident can damage them permanently. That would not be the case for Boeing.
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I view Elon Musk as part mad genius, part charlatan. I don't know what he's angling for with this, but I'll be watching to see how the dots get connected.

Also, I'll believe he's truly living in that shoebox and nowhere else whatsoever with his partner and many children when he sets up a 24-hour 360 degree live stream for at least a two-week period and proves that's the case. Not remotely buying this unless there's a mansion 2 acres away in the middle of construction that he's waiting on being completed.
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:rofl: :thumbsup:
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Where he's living is just a fun speculation, the really important part of his career is the electric car revolution. There is little doubt it would have come anyway, but Tesla conceivable might have brought it forward by 5-10 years. Without a serious industry disruptor car manufacturers would still be at "all talk" stage. It's extremely expensive to retool from internal combustion to electric (or any other new propulsion) and not at all good for the stock price.

Spacex is another story of this type. The promise is enormous and the latest rocket in development is taller than the statue of Liberty and 2x more powerful than the old Saturn.

Not all ideas makes sense of course. For example I think the hyperloop one will die a quite death soon enough.
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This wonderful multi-talented kid is proof that the rest of us are using only about 2% of our brain...
(Watch the video until the end)

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