Our children are dangerously talented

[jducoeur]

[Happy (belated) birthday to osewalrus!]

A month or two ago, one of the guys brought a handful of Slim Jims to poker night. They went onto The Table of Snackery (along with 95k other snacks that have accumulated there), and I promptly forgot about them.

I just found a wrapper on the floor. Neatly gnawed open at one end, and empty.

Really, I'm impressed -- those sealed plastic doodads aren't trivial to open even if you do have opposable thumbs, and sucking the meat stick out of the wrapper takes real skill. But I think they need to go into a sealed container -- Slim Jims aren't exactly on the approved kitty food list. (Heck, they're not even particularly on the approved human food list...)

Comments

Clever Jezzie

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Use one of the glass pasta jars that's empty. And put the rest of the jerky in there too :)

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

You might have some fun devising difficult containers for them, and see if they solve them.

[corwyn-ap.livejournal.com]

mmm, slim jims...

Cigars for people who hate tobacco. Or cats.

[siderea]

Why? Are they made of cat?

[serakit.livejournal.com]

I can't even open those things with my hands. How did the cat manage it?

[cellio]

Wow, that's impressive. Is it time to trim some claws, perhaps?

We have a snack cabinet for buffering stuff between games days and the like. Fortunately, it's an overhead cabinet. :-) (No, it's not really reachable from the counter below -- weird geometry in the kitchen.)

[jducoeur]

We haven't needed to worry about the snacks heretofore -- the cats simply haven't shown any interest in them. I shouldn't be surprised that the Slim Jims are an exception (especially since they *have* shown an interest in beef jerky), but it hadn't occurred to me that they would even notice it inside its plastic casing. Sensitive noses...

[dauphin1974.livejournal.com]

I was the one that brought them to poker. This posting caused me to laugh out loud - for real. What a hoot! They are spicy beef and pork, so unless one of the spices is specifically bad for kitties, I think they are "ok". But you are the proud papa of those kitties, so I won't bring anymore to poker so as to save you the concern! What a laugh!

[jducoeur]

Oh, I'm not terribly worried about it hurting them -- whichever one did it has shown no ill effects, and I wouldn't expect any save maybe an upset stomach from the spices. But we're trying to maintain a discipline of keeping them out of the human-food, so I'll have to keep Preserved Meat Products under closer guard in the future. (They're now in a sealed jar; I don't think even Jez can get into that...)