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[–] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (24 children)

We feed our cat a little petroleum jelly to get his insides lubricated. This was prescribed by a vet after he was very constipated. That was an expensive vet visit

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    The inventor of vaseline ate a spoonful every day. He promoted it as wonder goo, fit for everything and anything. NGL it is pretty great, on the outside. Well, and a fistful of inches deep as well but no farther.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (21 children)

    Does that work with humans this is not a medical question this is a personal experience question

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

    To be clear this is not just straight petroleum jelly it's formulated for cats, but the tube says 98% petroleum jelly with maple flavor

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Interesting they went with a sweet flavour; I always figured since cats are obligate carnivores that sweet things wouldn't be very attractive to them.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

    My cats will drink flat soda or energy drinks if you leave them out. My dog hunts down chocolate knowing it will make her puke. Animals are weird.

    Also deer are known to eat mice and birds and eggs and even dead rabbits.

    I once had a friend in school who had a rabbit. He took the vegetables off his burger and threw it in the cage with a couple strips of bacon. The rabbit sat on the tomato, devoured the bacon and then nibbled the lettuce a little bit. I still wonder to this day how a rabbit even digests bacon, let alone gets an appetite for it.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    That rabbit was very lucky to have had such a strong stomach, rabbits in general are unable to digest foods high in protein and gastric upset in rabbits can be fatal. Its one of the scariest things as a rabbit owner.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. I don't know how long it lived, at least a year since then, after that who knows. Rabbits aren't very long lived to begin with, and even less so when they sell them at the fair as tiny bunnies not neutered or spayed. Once you know how much work they are it seems kind of criminal.

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  • Rabbits aren't very long lived to begin with

    A domestic rabbit has an expected life span of about 8-12 years which I'd say is decently long

    Not neutered or spayed

    But yeah, that will shorten their life span for sure. Rabbits are a lot of work too and they're not for everyone! Most people don't really know or care about the work that's required to really take proper care of them.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting, I thought cats couldn't even taste sugar/sweet

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Well, the inventor of Vaseline thought so

    Chesebrough lived to be 96 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Petroleum jelly would work, but it's not intended for consumption. If you do want petroleum products intended for consumption that will do exactly the same thing, get some mineral oil

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