The Tantalising Forbidden Mystery

my cat hates taking his pills. the only way we can get him to eat them is to turn it into an elaborate pantomime - we take the packet out of the cupboard slowly and hold it up, saying “oh!! what’s this? what’s this? a TREAT? a TREAT for lous????” while making surprised faces. we offer him a pill... then, before he has a chance to sniff it, we wag our fingers at him and replace it in the packet so it becomes a Tantalising Forbidden Mystery. we continue doing this until he’s so confused and excited that he will eat the pill as fast as possible, just so he can find out what it is before we can take it away from him again. as soon as he’s eaten it he looks utterly disappointed and betrayed, like a child who just ate a delicious sweet only to find it was a chocolate-coated brussels sprout. it never gets old Op this is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

A cat refuses to take his pills, so his owners turn the medicine into an elaborate pantomime and a forbidden mystery. The cat becomes so curious and excited that he gulps down the pill, only to look betrayed when the “treat” is revealed to be disappointing. This is shared as a funny reaction to absurdly elaborate schemes that work too well. EN: A cat refuses to take his pills, so his owners turn the medicine into an elaborate pantomime and a forbidden mystery. The cat becomes so curious and excited that he gulps down the pill, only to look betrayed when the “treat” is revealed to be disappointing. This is shared as a funny reaction to absurdly elaborate schemes that work too well.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 5565 2023-01-17