Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• medgremlin@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Careful with that one. Big pharma killed my cat once.

  My cat came down with Feline Infectious Peritonitis which is a coronavirus that is lethal to cats when the virus mutates and becomes FIP. FIP is 100% fatal without treatment, and there is now a treatment (originally developed at UC Davis) that is now owned by a big pharma company. They shut down the feline clinical trials in 2020 because they also make Remdesivir, and there was a concern that any problems with the feline drug trial, the FDA might not approve Remdesivir for COVID. You can buy the drug on the internet from China, but it’s a 12 week course of twice daily injections, and you’re gambling on whether you got a good batch every time you get a shipment.

  By the time we found this out, it was too late to save our kitty, so he crossed the rainbow bridge.

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  • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • medgremlin@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      FIP Warriors is who we went through, but it progressed too quickly because the fluid accumulation was in his lungs, not his abdomen.

      That medication is quite new to the market and wasn’t available when this happened about 4 years ago, but I will mention this to our current vet so that she knows about it.

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• semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  not even doom music

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• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Catnip

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• greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you can’t brick my cat

  Have you tried putting socks on it?

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  • FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kitten Mittens!

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you can’t brick my cat

  Is this a challenge

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  • Lennny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A clamp (padded, preferably) on the scruff of the neck will temporarily brick a cat.

    Try this only with familiar cats with whom you have rapport.

    Don’t leave them for too long. A few minutes at most.

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    • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What The Fuck?

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      • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s where the term “catatonic” comes from, or so I’ve heard, and it’s a reflex because mother cats carry their babies by the scruff of their neck. From what I understand it’s totally harmless.

        Someone who actually knows these things can correct me if I’m wrong of course.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would you try that with any cat, especially one that you’re close to? The fuck.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not even a challenge, one drop of rogaine will brick any cat. App you have to do is touch them with it.

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    • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      oh my fucking god. is this why when I was a kid my friend’s cat went from super healthy to extremely sickly and died the next morning? his dad definitely used rogaine

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh goodness, that’s really sad and probably.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m unclear, and I’m not going to do this, but what does that do? Is it poison to them?

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It contains an enzyme their body cannot process and it effectively poisons them to death. I believe it attacks the nervous system.

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🤨

    Somebody call SPCA!

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