I was thinking that about sliced apples, but felt too shy to postulate honey-dipped kitty right now. Although honey is kind of antibiotic in its properties (notice how it goes bad sitting on the shelf at room temperature), I wouldn't think it's good to submerge an open wound in it, especially not Perrine's. I love that cat 2nd only to my own. And she's had it rough enough.
Mine is currently watching the hallway for intruders. From the safety of under Sheila the table. I like the rabbit's foot or fake fur concept.
One must think also of the built-in dehoneyfication system that a kitty has. Although a full-body immersion is likely to give a excessive workload and result in detriment to the continued well-being of the kit.
"I wouldn't think it's good to submerge an open wound in it"
Interestingly enough, I've heard that people have done exactly that with it, as a primitive-conditions way of protecting a wound from infection. (When I heard about it, it was unclear whether this was an "emergency, caught short, what do we have on hand?" thing (the same conditions under which one might wash a wound with urine (I imagine that stings) due to a lack of clean water), or a "modern antibiotics haven't been invented yet" thing. ISTR soldiers being involved. And I guess it'd probably be sometime after folks figured out germs cause infections.
I know that stuff already. But we live in one of the most ersatz civilized places on earth and have access to antibiotics and neosporin. I think of honey as something to be used under duress.
What is ISTR? I wish people would quit abbreviating so much. Just a general gripe.
Hmm. Must remember to visit the "which netspeak abbreviations do I use when, and why" thing after the pattern-matching analysis that just started in the back of my head resolves a bit.
(Urk. Having serious problems with the "stay asleep long enough for it to do any good" thing.)
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(Actually, we could test this with something like a rabbit's foot or a scrap of fake fur...)
I haven't done the ecperiment, but I know which way I'd bet.
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Mine is currently watching the hallway for intruders. From the safety of under Sheila the table. I like the rabbit's foot or fake fur concept.
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Interestingly enough, I've heard that people have done exactly that with it, as a primitive-conditions way of protecting a wound from infection. (When I heard about it, it was unclear whether this was an "emergency, caught short, what do we have on hand?" thing (the same conditions under which one might wash a wound with urine (I imagine that stings) due to a lack of clean water), or a "modern antibiotics haven't been invented yet" thing. ISTR soldiers being involved. And I guess it'd probably be sometime after folks figured out germs cause infections.
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What is ISTR? I wish people would quit abbreviating so much. Just a general gripe.
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Hmm. Must remember to visit the "which netspeak abbreviations do I use when, and why" thing after the pattern-matching analysis that just started in the back of my head resolves a bit.
(Urk. Having serious problems with the "stay asleep long enough for it to do any good" thing.)