• Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If my pets are any indicator of attempting this with animals they’ll gobble up the meal and leave the medication on the ground.

  • TellusChaosovich@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They dropped these in my mother in law’s suburban neighborhood. In her back yard. With no warning. My dog found and ate one, so it had me googling what the hell my dog had just eaten and wondering if she was going to die. Luckily we didn’t have any toddlers playing in the back yard.

    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I doubt many people actually pay that much for their meds.

      They’ll go broke instead, eternally in debt, unable to save up enough or get a credit for, say, buying a house to save on horribly inflated rent prices, always living in fear of being fired and ending up homeless until they get arrested for not having a home to sleep in, sent to for-profit prisons at the expense of other taxpayers, possibly even put to work as a legal slave…

      …but I can’t imagine the pharma company does actually get all of those 60k on average. Maybe 20k-40k - hardly enough to pay their shareholders, let alone their insurance subsidiaries’ employees for the soul-crushing job of listening to patients breaking down because the insurance won’t cover their child’s life-saving treatment for some reason rep, patient, doctor and executives all know is bullshit.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    While i do think humans caring for nature is best done by not touching it, this is one thing humans can do for nature.

  • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Much of Europe (ie the rich parts) is free of terrestrial rabies because of such programs. Bats really get around, though.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah the raccoons eat the fishmeal then peel back the protective backing, retrieve the pill and don’t wash it before eating it.

      NO! Everyone knows those things are unopenable without scissors or a hammer or an RPG or something.