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      Well, the inventor of Vaseline thought so

      Chesebrough lived to be 96 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day

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      To be clear this is not just straight petroleum jelly it’s formulated for cats, but the tube says 98% petroleum jelly with maple flavor

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        Interesting they went with a sweet flavour; I always figured since cats are obligate carnivores that sweet things wouldn’t be very attractive to them.

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          My cats will drink flat soda or energy drinks if you leave them out. My dog hunts down chocolate knowing it will make her puke. Animals are weird.

          Also deer are known to eat mice and birds and eggs and even dead rabbits.

          I once had a friend in school who had a rabbit. He took the vegetables off his burger and threw it in the cage with a couple strips of bacon. The rabbit sat on the tomato, devoured the bacon and then nibbled the lettuce a little bit. I still wonder to this day how a rabbit even digests bacon, let alone gets an appetite for it.

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            That rabbit was very lucky to have had such a strong stomach, rabbits in general are unable to digest foods high in protein and gastric upset in rabbits can be fatal. Its one of the scariest things as a rabbit owner.

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              Yeah. I don’t know how long it lived, at least a year since then, after that who knows. Rabbits aren’t very long lived to begin with, and even less so when they sell them at the fair as tiny bunnies not neutered or spayed. Once you know how much work they are it seems kind of criminal.

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                Rabbits aren’t very long lived to begin with

                A domestic rabbit has an expected life span of about 8-12 years which I’d say is decently long

                Not neutered or spayed

                But yeah, that will shorten their life span for sure. Rabbits are a lot of work too and they’re not for everyone! Most people don’t really know or care about the work that’s required to really take proper care of them.

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      Petroleum jelly would work, but it’s not intended for consumption. If you do want petroleum products intended for consumption that will do exactly the same thing, get some mineral oil

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      I don’t know about petroleum jelly, but I know you can drink mineral oil as a laxative, and that’s basically the same stuff just runny.