The important bit:
the pets escaped through a dog door and were not harmed
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Thank fuck
I came for this. No interest in the article but wanted to know the dog was ok.
thank goodness!
Arfsonist
Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.
Well hows that untypical?
Well, there are a lot of these dogs chewing things around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that pets aren’t safe.
But maybe lithium batteries aren't safe...
It's a reference to a famous funny video. Even the guys username is from it
Absolutely ludicrous, these are very very strong batteries.
Senator Collins, can you tell me about your government's tax plan?
It’s a complete void.
Well, there are regulations governing the materials they can be made of.
What materials?
Well, cardboard’s out.
And?
No cardboard derivatives.
Like paper?
No paper. No string. No sellotape.
Would like to see "dog chews don't cause it to catch fire" to the regulations requirements
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
My only thought was that the pet owners are idiots
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
My cat exclusively choose USB cables, other cables are not tasty apparently. Is difficult to plan for everything.
Well, some of them are built so that they aren’t chewed on at all.
Cable plastics are derived from soy. They are designed to break down in landfills but the side effect is cat pasta.
Oh, very rigorous accessory engineering standards.
It was outside of the environment
It’s beyond the environment. It’s not in an environment. It’s been thrown beyond the environment.
August 8, 2024
coulda sworn I'd seen this before
Same, honestly I'm surprised that it wasn't older than that. Hell of a year amirite?
keep portable charging devices out of pets' reach
Realistically, I suspect that a smartphone battery is enough to start a fire. I doubt that there is any chance that every dog owner is going to keep smartphones out of pet reach.
Dogs have been chewing cords, starting fires, and electrocuting themselves since home electricity was a thing.
When my dog, Fester, was a puppy, he was chewing power cords and I am still surprised and grateful he never harmed himself in the process, at least not that warranted care.
He's more constrained to his own toys and chewables now, but for a while nothing was safe. He has the epithet Fester The Destroyer for having chewed through over $1K of shoes in a week. His grand total it significantly higher.
Alexandrite doesn't allow image downloading so ~~I don't know how to provide pet tax.~~
Here we go. Jackie on the right; Fester (The Destroyer) on the left.
For cords, IIRC you can make them taste bad.
hits Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Cord-Protector-CritterCord-Protect-Hazardous/dp/B000EH2I5O
Maybe it'd be possible to make something similar for phone cases.
Yeah, how else are they going to play flappy bird?
Apparently mice used to do this with old matches, before the invention of safety matches.
Look we have become man
Dog: dare you to go out without me, you motherfucker
Can we train dogs to do this to fascists?
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