Current mood:

Dramatic

lesbiums_lover posts a picture of her rat holding and chewing on a razor blade with a lame caption about the rat "being emo because his sister died.

ratties explodes.
167 comments at the time of posting.

Bonus second mini-wank is buried in the comments.

In there, we find out that lesbiums_lover isn't the brightest crayon, as she let one rat (Spektor's sister) die slowly after she used dog flea spray on it and the chemicals slowly ate through the rat's ears and skin.
To her credit, the rat was taken to a vet and given antibiotics for the systemic infection that resulted. This rat also had a "big tumor", and eventually slowly died at home.
She refused to have it euthanized because it would cost too much.
Of course, she also couldn't bear to kill the suffering rat at home because that would be cruel.
As though letting it die slowly from chemical burns and stress isn't cruel enough.

oneintheyarbles decides to beg to be banned from stupidpetowners (one of the comm rules is that 'tattling' about entries being featured there is an insta-ban).

There was also a call to have lesbiums_lover banned for bragging about taking pics of her rat in dangerous situations and calling it cute, but that comment was deleted.
Whether one of the mods or the OP deleted it is unclear.

We also learn from several comments that it's okay to let rats chew on razor blades because rats are smart.
Unfortunately, hers isn't smart enough to know that it's not a good idea to chew on razor blades.
I'm still hoping that the blade end had a clear plastic cover on it and the OP has just been too daft to mention it.

Not posted to i_wank because I wasn't really wanky in my single comment.

Edit: Damn, that was fast. It's gone already. HOWEVER, you may still read about it over on stupidpetowners.

The mods of ratties have posted this, in which a "wave o' bannination" was announced due to ~~people calling the OP on her high level of stupidity~~ "harrassment of members."

Remember, nobody can ever do anything wrong when it comes to pet care and telling them that they ARE doing something wrong is rude and horrible. ;)

Scariest thing is that lesbiums_lover is evidently a-hankerin' to go to vet school.
For the sake of your own pets, pray that she gets denied.

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	footsie 2006-04-04 06:16 am UTC (link)
	"She refused to have it euthanized because it would cost too much. Of course, she also couldn't bear to kill the suffering rat at home because that would be cruel." Holy shit. (Hugs his cat, and makes reassuring noises: "Don't worry, booboo, I won't let lesbiums_lover anywhere near you, it's okay, it's okay...") (Reply to this)(Thread)

tviokh
2006-04-04 06:28 am UTC (link)

There have been times when an old rat of mine has decided it's time to go after vet hours or on a Sunday or some other time when the emergency vet would cost $100+ to have it euthanized.

In those cases, though it sucks to have to do it, I know how to quickly break necks or if that's not possible for some odd reason, how to aim a shovel and hit hard enough for an instant death.

That should never be the first resort, but in a pinch it's still better than letting the animal linger for hours or days in constant pain or suffering.