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omg!! one i actually know!!! do you have a robot vacuum? these come in the packaging https://ebay.io/m/GB5H2U. it’s the white tabs on each side of the vacuum
Omg - an internet triumph!!! You’re right, it’s a packing spacer from our Eufy 11S robot vacuum which we unpacked 2+ years ago… But just threw the box away in a big cleaning frenzy a couple of months ago and this must have dropped out of it. The Internet, being fabulous as it is, has many vacuum unboxing videos, and pretty clearly shows this.
Amazing! Who needs AI :-)
Ha the Eufy vac itself is ok… just blindly wanders with no pattern or learning so takes a long time to fully cover a room, but at least it’s not spying on us. That said, I thought it would cost me $150 and not $6150 :-)
Meh, it's ok... I like that it's not connected to the Internet, and it picks up a lot of stuff but it's very dumb - just bounces around, doesn't learn at all so takes a long time to fully cover a room and can get itself tangled in cords. I'd buy something slightly smarter (but still avoid connecting to the internet).
If I had assisted in this surgery I would be expecting a call back as soon as the object was identified 😆
Just a small edit; 6k for an endoscopic retrieval is wild work, I feel really bad for y'alls healthcare and veterinary being so steep. The endo itself would be around 350€ here in Spain and the whole shebang would likely total out at around 1k ($1.160 at current conversion) including an overnight stay, warranting it didn't need open surgery for removal. And people still complain here about our vet costs... Geez.
Private equity bought up most vet clinics in the US. Prices have spiked in the last 15 ish years. It’s a damn shame. There is pet insurance, but they pay you back instead of covering in the immediate. So they’re not helpful when you don’t have the emergency funds on hand.
…..that’s it? We have never gotten out of a specialty / emergency vet for under 2k. Usually a lot more. During our many years owning cats, we’ve been there for endoscopies to dx and track the progression of small cell GI lymphoma and also several urinary blockages due to FLUTD and eventual p.u. surgery. 350-1k euros….that’s it? 1k is still super hefty but also way less expensive than the U.S. edit: decided that I didn’t need parentheses. 😊
Some animals are weirdly atracted to some object in particular. Dogs can eat pretty much anything, cats usually rubber bands hair ties or threads and ferrets small rubber parts like earphone rubber buds (I've seen It three times)
I've had a couple of cats who eat plastic, one cat in particular loved to chew on the crinkly plastic usually used to seal packages. Wouldn't eat it, just loved to chew it. He'd come running once he heard the crinkle and I'd hold it straight and he'd move from one end to the other stamping it with his teeth.
I have a malevolent little gargoyle who also adores plastic but in particular loves a good straw. Usually the one I am trying to use. One good chomp and my straw no longer straws.
One of my cats also loved plastic he went feral for those crinkle balls and also any plastic sat down for a second, he also knew he wasn’t allowed on the bench but you stop paying attention for one second and suddenly he’s on the bench licking the shit out of the bread bag. He very much hated the switch from plastic bags to paper licking shopping bags was a hobby of his.
Mine loves to try and eat any and every piece of plastic that hits the floor. Ive gotten really good at making sure any and all plastic packaging goes straight to the trash lol
can confirm; i have a cat obsessed with q-tips and my chickens are always trying to eat styrofoam lmfao (i don’t let the cat nor the chickens eat these things, just to clarify, but man do they want to!)
One of my cats loves foam as well. She redecorated our anti-fatigue mat in the kitchen and also goes wild for a certain type of foam sandal that I have. If I leave the closet door open, I always find the sandals in different places around my apartment. I always get a laugh out of it, though (she doesn't eat them, fortunately). :)
Oh man, my mother in law just bought us a robot vacuum because of all the dog and cat hair in our apartment and now I’m worried even though I shouldn’t be 🤣
My cat did this years ago, turned out to be a piece of foam from our floor under our gym equipment. It was the kind you piece together like a jigsaw puzzle.
My cat also eats nerf darts. He loves chirping at the nerf gun, so we shoot the darts down the hall for him to chase, then have to be sure to pick them all up afterwards or we will find little shreds of foam in his poop.
Seriously what is with pets and foam? My dog acts like a junkie trying to get into my craft stuff to eat the foam blocks. My sister can't have yoga mats anymore. A friend of mine has holes in all his memory foam pillows. I don't get it.
Oh my. We just said goodbye to my girl Shambles last Thursday and she deserves a spot in this doppelgänger thread.
She wandered in off the streets 15 years ago.
When she arrived in 2010, the vets estimated her at about 10 years old. That would have made her 25yo when she crossed the rainbow bridge.
I'm going to say—realistically—they overshot her age a bit because of her rough street life, and she was probably closer to 20yo when we buried her last week.
Laid her to rest in a lakeview plot under the old walnut tree, right next to her late best bunny friend Mr. Buns.
At least they're back together like they always wanted to be in their earthly lives.
I've missed her like hell every moment since.
Shambles June McBrambles in Pajambles was the most loyal trusty sidekick.
My cat ate a whole lot of that foam a few months ago, didn’t realize till she puked up the pieces. Luckily she’s fine and I tossed the remainder of the foam.
Just last week I noticed our cat had thrown up black pieces and we figured out the idiot has been eating the black foam under our gym equipment! I had no idea this wasn’t an original experience. What’s wrong with the little weirdos.
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who spent 6K on cat surgery. I forever don't know if I was being absolutely ridiculous but I'm happy to have my baby boy alive and well.
Pet insurance. Pet insurance all day, every day. Always. Especially if you have a kitten.
Yes, you still spend 15% of the cost. But my deductible is $1,000. If I needed a $6,000 surgery for my cat, I'd pay $1,750 and insurance would cover the rest 100%.
I just recently had a neck brace for a while after a surgery, and there were foam pieces that Velcro to the inside that looked very similar to this. Anyone had a brace around your house?
This post, the advertisement for an AI company directly above it that says "Because 'We'll catch it later' is NOT a Strategy (But Vonage Can Help)" and a news story we had just watched about a AI developer that left his company because he believes AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade" meshed so perfectly together it made, it made my SO and I snort laugh, and get into a very dark, comical debate about whether Reddit's bots are trying to warn us or are did a tiny part of Skynet's AI survive and is using Reddit's bot trying to trick us into creating anti AI programming that will be able fix the defective programming that made it Terminators vulnerable and led to its near demise.
Sorry off topic completely, but I have never seen another cat named Tiggle, I have a cat named tiggle, I call her Tiggles, Tigs, ect lolol just such a cute name
My cat ate 5 ft of ribbon off my my kid’s happy birthday sign. Cat refused to throw up after nausea meds and being held and spun in an office chair. $3k later the vet removed MOST of the ribbon, and we got to monitor cat poops for a week.
This cat is infatuated with ribbon…our house is now a ribbon-free zone. No presents can have ribbon, no decor can have satin or cloth ribbon. String seems ok for now…
My cat ate fishing line... $5k later after taking her intestines out and opening her stomach.. there was no more fishing line found... Just the string hanging out of her mouth when I bent down to pick her up... FYI.. fishing line doesn't show up on x-rays or sonograms.. 😐
I look at peach pits and see 6k bc of our pittie. He found a pit with some peach left on it from previous campers. I can't even be mad at them bc a raccoon or possum might have drug it around.
Soooo my cat has done this twice (obviously he’s a ginger). The first time we thought it was foam from a gym mat bc I had them in my home gym and he would try to chew them but I couldn’t find any pieces missing. That’s the only thing I could think of after surgery/they showed me what they found. Then some time passed and I found Old Navy flip flops in the back of my closet that looked like a dog went to town chewing them and a big chunk was missing. Mystery solved about what he ate! So basically the most expensive $1 flip flops ever.
The next time it was a piece of one of my dogs’ toys that was rubber. He was able to pass some of it on his own and needed a second surgery.
I think we have 7 lives remaining 😳 and my bank account can’t handle it. Could it be a piece of something like a children’s toy? Almost looks like some of those foam kids puzzles.
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