purplehorseshoe get out of my head! That’s the first thing I started mentally singing. Calmeacham, thanks for introducing “kid kibble” into my lexicon. And the laughs.
Those cardboard scratchers often come with a packet of catnip, so maybe the warning is more for the nip than the cardboard.
Nope. This one’s just a thick slab of pure cardboard.
No catnip either. Just. Cardboard.
Maybe the cardboard is stuck together with glue that isn’t certified to be non-toxic.
On nearly everything.
Willie and Frankie hate when that happens.
Humans don’t respond to the chemical (nepetalactone) that is psychoactive for cats, so for us, catnip is basically just mint. It’s commonly claimed that it has a mild sedative effect on humans, but I have not found actual studies supporting that–the closest I’ve seen is an abstract for a paper mentioning that a toddler became unusually sleepy after ingesting “a large quantity of catnip”.
So, a warning for catnip would make about as much sense as a warning for a slab cardboard. Since they stuck the warning on a slab of cardboard, however, that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t compound the silliness with a catnip warning.
You know what I hate?
Cat scratching posts?
Cat scratching posts, the kind with sand glued on. I bought one o’em a while back, started rubbin’ it on my face, suddenly I’m missing skin and my face starts burnin’.
Sounds painful!
Yeah, so next I grabbed some hot sauce…
~Max
Strictly speaking, complaints about warnings should go in ATMB…
I haven’t had an opportunity to whip out my sig-line in quite some time.
(ignore the Carls jr. thing … I was making some sort of point)
With a dremel tool.
#10
Maybe they meant the cat’s children.
My best friend is an attorney who specializes in suing insurance companies. From listening to decades of stories, those warnings are rarely preemptive. That means that some one had to do something stupid to get the company to include the warning. I know that’s why Nair has a warning not to use it on your genitals.
What I want to know is why those little packets that come with your shoes say “Do Not Eat”. Not because they’re poison. But because who the fuck would think of eating one of those?
Yeah, just like who would eat a Tide Pod?
They look just like those little salt packets that fast food places give you with your meal. Imagine opening your box of new shoes in the kitchen and throwing the packet on the table.
I think you are referring to silica gel desiccant packets. Those are also put in food packages, and it’s conceivable that someone will think it’s supposed to be eaten with the packaged food.