so Saturday when my dad went to buy a 12 pack of sodas. he grabbed the box handle and like the cardboard easily ripped apart. we thought it was weird but whatever, bought the 12 pack, went home. today I go to grab a soda. I open the box and I'm like. huh. th ebox feels weird like there's texture on it? I turn the light on. COATED in tiny fucking bugs. so many like white specks
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Top ten imaginary bugs?
A tree dwelling cockroach that lights up like a firefly
A big spiny predatory katydid that lights up to lure the cockroaches
A freshwater mantis shrimp I could just find at the average creek like I can crawfish.
A "giant" (like 2 inches) flightless lousefly that can thrive on any vertebrate blood and bites things at night like a vampire bat, wouldn't spread disease or infest homes or even be any more painful than a mosquito but you know it'd freak people out real bad anyways. Just something extra to keep humans on their toes.
A giant (like 1 inch) snout mite because they're really fun carnivorous mites with pointy noses, I wanna be able to keep them as pets too, or an even more giant tick but it's a non-biting scavenger. I want a big friendly tick.
A freshwater goose barnacle that can grow on land and catch insects like a venus flytrap.
A fully terrestrial crab that lives positively everywhere just so we'd have a culture in which crabs have to be recognized as common woodland creatures instead of mainly sea or beach creatures. I just think that would be fun. Might be neat if it's also super spiny all over.
A positively colossal (half an inch) tardigrade. Some tardigrades are predators, it could be one of those. A ferocious mega tardigrade that eats worms and termites and things.
One single small, plain species of trilobite that survived extinction by coming onto land but it's a petty nuisance to us, like it loves to eat stucco or something.
A biting vampire butterfly. Vampire moths exist, but they're rare and nocturnal. The vampire butterfly should be common and act like any other butterfly except that it will bite you if it gets the chance. As with the woodland crab I just wanna see what cultural impact there'd be if one butterfly was scary. It should look really distinct among all butterflies for ease of artistic use. So nobody has to explain what kind of butterfly it is if they got it for a tattoo or put it on an album cover.
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Clean bill of health for both of the ladies! Except that they have a severe ear mite infestation. I thought they were itching and scratching because they had fleas but these poor ladies had the yuckiest crustiest ears I’ve ever seen. An easy fix. No congenital issues, good heart and lung sounds, no worms, no fleas, no worries. They were given their initial vaccines, an ear mite rinse and a preventative treatment for fleas, roundworms and ticks.
Philomena reacts to stress by meowing, trembling and panting. Odette reacts to stress by shitting. Like father like daughter, I guess. I thought she was doing so well in the car in comparison to her crybaby sister. Then she emptied her bowels all over the carrier. Not her fault but it was a mess. Philomena tired herself out with her little panic attack and was mostly well-behaved at exam. Odette fought tigerishly. I have to say, I always thought Philomena would be the problem child…
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