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[aaronjb]

Well, it's not really their fault, entirely ours, but..

Probably thanks to the leftover cat food, I took the top off the bin tonight to empty it only to be confronted by hundreds of little wriggling white things.

The wheelie bin, kitchen bin, half the driveway and quite a lot of me has now been liberally treated to bleach at high concentrations…


… oddly enough I don't much feel like making dinner now!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Well, it's not really their fault, entirely ours, but..

Probably thanks to the leftover cat food, I took the top off the bin tonight to empty it only to be confronted by hundreds of little wriggling white things.

The wheelie bin, kitchen bin, half the driveway and quite a lot of me has now been liberally treated to bleach at high concentrations…


… oddly enough I don't much feel like making dinner now!

Mmmm......a rare culinary delight.

[chrisgixer]

Gota be quick picking up un eaten car food too. Flys will lay eggs on cat food the instant the cat walks away. The cat will happily return to the food and and continue eating as well. Eggs and all.

TIS the flys. Might be worth some worm tablets for the put puts.

[aaronjb]

Mmmm......a rare culinary delight.

*heaves* Usually I have a strong stomach - certainly for gory medical details.. but the little squelchy noises they make moving around if you listen closely make my stomach turn!

Gota be quick picking up un eaten car food too. Flys will lay eggs on cat food the instant the cat walks away. The cat will happily return to the food and and continue eating as well. Eggs and all.

Yeah, and there's been a lot of flies around this year

TIS the flys. Might be worth some worm tablets for the put puts.

They're about due that again now anyway after the vet visit last month (6 mo checkup, flea treatment etc etc)  Time for Aaron to lose a finger again!

[chrisgixer]

Vet visit? My we are posh


How do you get one of them then

[aaronjb]

I mean us visiting the vet rather than t'other way around..

They send us a reminder every six months that they're due booster jabs and we get them Program treated at the same time so no fleas to worry about

Plus it was good to have the vet tell us we haven't stunted them, they're just small cats..

[chrisgixer]

Ah I see, sorry

We do front line and tablets. We do enough vists to the vet for Maisie's blood pressure tbh.

Btw, H had the maggots thing. Bottom fell out the bin all over her feet. Brrrrrrrrwwwwww. 

[aaronjb]

Ah at least it's not just me .. I don't feel quite so much like some kind of disgusting slob now

They fell off the lid onto the floor for me - I had to stomp a bunch and sweep the rest up.. by heck they move fast for something so small! Ended up pulling carpet tiles up to get the remainder as they'd wandered off while I wasn't looking..

.. wonder how many have managed to crawl out of the wheelie bin now - they seem to be next to impossible to kill!

[andyc]

Ah not a fisherman then otherwise they would have been collected in a bait box ready for the next session, free (pinkies) bait.

FYI in the winter when fishing the maggots go lifeless due to the cold and to get them to wriggle again just pop a couple under your tongue to warm them up before there bit

Andy

[chrisgixer]

Awww Andy your a wrong un.

[aaronjb]

just pop a couple under your tongue to warm them up before there bit

You probably can't hear me retching from there but it sounds something like "huuuughhh"

Nope, not a fisherman My other half, however, used to go fishing a lot with her dad so she's no stranger to pinkies - still not sure she'd want them wriggling all over the kitchen floor, though

[Sir Tigger KC]

They use maggots these days in medicine to clean up septic wounds and ulcers.  They pack a few in, wrap a bandage round and let them chomp away all the rotten meat till it's clean and healthy again. 

[cem_devecioglu]

was that dry food Aaronjb ?

[aaronjb]

Nope, wet food .. well, wet food remnants in the bin. There's been a lot of flies around recently (very hot, dry weather, and it didn't help that the builders left a bowl of dog food outside all day which did rather attract them!) so I guess some of the leftovers that the cats weren't touching had gotten flyblown before it went in the bin.. and it sat just long enough for a bunch of them to hatch.

I said thousands but I was exaggerating Probably only 50 or so in reality.. but might as well have been thousands when I was going "euurgggh!" and hopping around the kitchen with a bin full..

[omega3000]

Soon as we put down wet food the flies are in  So once the cats have eaten the bowls are washed clean , im surprised they have not designed a feeding bowl with a lid to seal on top to stop the flies getting in 
Or what we have done recently is dry food in the day and wet at night when less flies around