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trinityvixenSo I decided to clean up a bit last night. Actually, a lot. Having ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cagexxx over for the past few days, we've accumulated a bunch of OJ boxes--not to say these are the worst, not when we've got just as many 2L of Diet Pepsi in the recycling, just that it's the straw that breaks me into finally taking out garbage and recycling (you know, after the tower on the can looks perilously close to toppling).
While I was at it, I figured I'd scoop the kitty litters, since no one had in a while. I started to sift clumps when I noticed that the clump of litter-caked poo was still moving even after all the dry litter had run through the scoop.
Long story short: THERE WERE MAGGOTS IN THE LITTER
So gross. I immediately dumped all the litter in both boxes because if the one was a crawling nightmare of HORROR, the other probably couldn't be too far behind.cagexxx and David K (whom I've not seen in soooo long) were kind enough to actually take the shit down to the basement. I dunno that I could have even risked dragging that heavy-ass bag of litter and having it spill open. I would have just screamed and screamed and screamed.
Trinity? SHE DOES NOT LIKE MAGGOTS. She does not, precious. She does not like creepy, crawly, squishy, slimy bugs. Never have. Give me a fly, and I'll sooner kiss it than hold a jar that has its little worm babies in it. Seriously. This is all to do, methinks, with the time that my friend got a turtle, and her aunt (who has a farm), scooped her out a bunch of mealworms into a jar from a container (filled with kitty litter, funnily enough) she kept in her fridge in order to feed the new pet. This "friend" being who she was at the time, gave me the open jar (no lid! NO LID!!!) to hold on the car ride back while she cooed over her turtle and otherwise generally ignored me. I was fine until the little stiff bugs started to wriggle around. Only the fact that I froze before I freaked out kept me from throwing the jar out of my lap. NO ONE TOLD ME THEY WERE STILL ALIVE!!! WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SAY THEY WERE ALIVE AND JUST FROZEN!?!?!
And, of course, there was the time I got back from a tennis lesson and felt something scratchy on my neck and I reached to itch it and came back with something squishy WHICH WAS ONLY HALF OF AN ENORMOUS GREEN CREEPY CRAWLY OF SOME KIND THAT WAS STILL MOVING OMG WHY THE FUCK DO THESE THINGS FIND ME!?!?!
::pant pant wheeze wheeze::
I guess I can just count myself "lucky" that I found the bugs before they hatched into flies. Because I'm not happy about the four-five-twenty buzzing around our apartment now (nor do I care for their ability to avoid the fly paper I've strung up EVERYWHERE). If one third of those maggots had turned into flies, we'd have had an infestation that would be incompatible with sanity.
cagexxx over for the past few days, we've accumulated a bunch of OJ boxes--not to say these are the worst, not when we've got just as many 2L of Diet Pepsi in the recycling, just that it's the straw that breaks me into finally taking out garbage and recycling (you know, after the tower on the can looks perilously close to toppling). While I was at it, I figured I'd scoop the kitty litters, since no one had in a while. I started to sift clumps when I noticed that the clump of litter-caked poo was still moving even after all the dry litter had run through the scoop.
Long story short: THERE WERE MAGGOTS IN THE LITTER
So gross. I immediately dumped all the litter in both boxes because if the one was a crawling nightmare of HORROR, the other probably couldn't be too far behind.
cagexxx and David K (whom I've not seen in soooo long) were kind enough to actually take the shit down to the basement. I dunno that I could have even risked dragging that heavy-ass bag of litter and having it spill open. I would have just screamed and screamed and screamed.Trinity? SHE DOES NOT LIKE MAGGOTS. She does not, precious. She does not like creepy, crawly, squishy, slimy bugs. Never have. Give me a fly, and I'll sooner kiss it than hold a jar that has its little worm babies in it. Seriously. This is all to do, methinks, with the time that my friend got a turtle, and her aunt (who has a farm), scooped her out a bunch of mealworms into a jar from a container (filled with kitty litter, funnily enough) she kept in her fridge in order to feed the new pet. This "friend" being who she was at the time, gave me the open jar (no lid! NO LID!!!) to hold on the car ride back while she cooed over her turtle and otherwise generally ignored me. I was fine until the little stiff bugs started to wriggle around. Only the fact that I froze before I freaked out kept me from throwing the jar out of my lap. NO ONE TOLD ME THEY WERE STILL ALIVE!!! WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SAY THEY WERE ALIVE AND JUST FROZEN!?!?!
And, of course, there was the time I got back from a tennis lesson and felt something scratchy on my neck and I reached to itch it and came back with something squishy WHICH WAS ONLY HALF OF AN ENORMOUS GREEN CREEPY CRAWLY OF SOME KIND THAT WAS STILL MOVING OMG WHY THE FUCK DO THESE THINGS FIND ME!?!?!
::pant pant wheeze wheeze::
I guess I can just count myself "lucky" that I found the bugs before they hatched into flies. Because I'm not happy about the four-five-twenty buzzing around our apartment now (nor do I care for their ability to avoid the fly paper I've strung up EVERYWHERE). If one third of those maggots had turned into flies, we'd have had an infestation that would be incompatible with sanity.
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Date: 2007-08-01 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
We all have things that get us, though. I overreact to moldy food.
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Date: 2007-08-01 06:58 pm (UTC)I feel you on moldy food. And your fiance on mushrooms. Gross.
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Date: 2007-08-01 06:02 pm (UTC)That reminds me of a time that I was on a time study ride and we made a delivery to a dock that seemed abandoned (we later found out we parked on the wrong side) and there was a CASE of pasta sauce, with some busted containers, and maggots all in the container wrapping. Ugh! Just... UGH! I wish I remembered which company this was, b/c I would NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM. (It was a food distributor.)
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Date: 2007-08-01 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-01 06:05 pm (UTC)I'm going to be thinking about this all day, you understand, and I didn't even experience it.
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Date: 2007-08-01 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-01 07:01 pm (UTC)On the up side, I supppose, I will be cleaning kitty litter more often.
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Date: 2007-08-01 06:14 pm (UTC)heeeeeeeeeeee
hehehehehehehe
*runs off giggling*
I'm going to that special hell.
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Date: 2007-08-01 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-01 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-02 09:18 am (UTC)Ironically, intestinal worms are far more dangerous to human health.
Unless you have screwflies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution).
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Date: 2007-08-02 02:14 pm (UTC)No, I'm a hundred percent positive that these were maggots from litter left out too long. It'd been a week since it was changed, and the second litter, though used, ended up not having any growing there. If they'd been worms, they would have been in both boxes.
Also, I've studied a lot of invertebrate zo' so I think I'd recognize the difference between the slimy roundworms and creepy-crawly bugggggz. But yeah, our kitties are otherwise pretty healthy, so I don't think this is the problem. Also, maggots are about 1000X bigger. If I could see them, chances are good that that's not what it was (not with all the flies we've got buzzing around). All signs point ZOMG FLIES.