Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Body electric

There are those who will look at this photo and start laughing:


Those people do not live with a cat.

Yes, it’s amusing to illustrate the principles of static electricity by letting a feline jump in a box of little Styrofoam pellets. But that amusement wears off as you watch the animal race around the house trying to rub them off, and you realize that you are going to have to vacuum the entire place. Possibly after you’ve woken up the next morning with little Styrofoam pellets in your nostrils because Fluffy walked on your pillow while you slept.

Also consider the phenomenon of hair balls, and what those pellets will look like in a soggy caterpillar of substance that emerges from either end of Fluffy’s gastrointestinal system.

Just sayin’.


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