On average, a 5-kg cat needs around 250 ml of water a day. 250 ml of seawater contains about 8.75 g of salt, and the fatal dose of salt for a 5-kg cat would be 20 g of salt. In other words, this ability works within certain limits, so please don’t go out of your way to give salt water to your cat.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 85 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

The fact that you need to tell people not to intentionally give their cat salt water is telling of how far we've regressed as a society.

[–] jamesjams@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Humans are naturally curious and lean towards the scientific method, that's why we always need a disclaimer, don't TRY this, they still will.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“Scientific method”?

Most people’s “method” is YOLO/HMB for lols. Thank goodness cats have nine lives.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah or when something has been proven by the scientific method and they want to feel special so they specifically do the opposite of the beneficial thing

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

HMB? How many bombs?

[–] rwtwm@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

'Hold my beer' I believe

[–] Sonor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

trump entered the chat

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, you know what they say about curiosity and cats...

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

curiosity

"Better to send a robot to Mars, than a cat" my papi used to say

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