Laws, oral contracts, common courtesies, and childhood rules regarding 'keepsies' don't apply within 1,300' of a Dark and Unholy Creature.
For those of us keeping score at home, how many tentacles are left? The situation sounds dire.
Maybe what’s really needed is a simple glue trap. Try baiting it with some stale French bread and peanut butter.
Even if you just catch a mouse, it didn’t do any harm.
McCthulhu may be a spawn of Xagthrath the Grumbling Rug.
In which case, the shed tentacles could develop into further spawn.
If so, a steady diet of unwary dust bunnies, zombies, door to door salesmen and mimes would keep him fit and trim.
“I don’t believe your agreement not to bring McCthulhu back to the vet is legally binding, except in Oklahoma and Sectors R and Q. I didn’t take the course in Dark and Unholy Creatures Law in law school, but I’ve dealt with soft goods attorneys from New York City and have practical experience.”
That’s good to know, but the vet has shown himself to be pretty excitable and I don’t think it helps McCthulhu’s temperament. There are plenty of vets here and I think I’ll take tax-chick’s advice and get a reptile specialist. Maybe I should put an ad on craigslist?
“For those of us keeping score at home, how many tentacles are left? The situation sounds dire.”
McCthulhu started out with about 30-40, and is down to 8. But the good news is the antibiotics seem to be working, and I saw a new tentacle nubbin earlier. It hasn’t lost a tentacle in about a day now. So that’s really good. It took another bottle of antibiotics today, but chewed the bottle more slowly.
McCthulhu also seems to be a lot more chipper: it gave me a good, solid chomp on my thigh when I went onto a pro-Paul website. It was my own fool fault; I should’ve put it outside to play with the local teenagers. I think that McCthulhu really is trying to behave; it’s now actually trying to play with the teens instead of just burying them in the backyard.