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Gummy Plight (16) : During the Star Festival, seasonal pop-up shops are everywhere. StarSweets is a new candy shop that touts a variety of ‘healthy’ sweets in addition to old classics and new favorites. Their reviews are great, and for good reason! Except, when you go, something’s wrong with your order. As you chew, it suddenly gets gummy, and then it gets tacky, and then you can’t chew at all. It’s so sticky that you can’t open your mouth. The only consolation is that the flavor stays fresh and delicious the entire time. Maybe it takes a few minutes, or a few hours; you can try whatever remedy you want, but if you wait it out it will eventually soften and you can free yourself. Overall it’s harmless, just massively inconvenient, and maybe a bit embarrassing.
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Did you know there are some things that cats should never eat? There are even less things that Guardian cats should never eat. But for Mel… Mel just found something he really should never eat again. Then again maybe he should, it depends on what is going on at the time. There were some who would want to feed him nothing BUT the treat that put in his current plight. So what exactly happened? What did he eat and what happened to the poor kitty? It all started when the toddler offered Mel her candy. Or at least she stuck her hand out in his direction so it wasn’t his fault that she started to cry once he gently pulled the treat from her sticky grasp. She was the one to say ‘ear, ear’ while shoving the candy in his direction.
He had been having a wonderful day really, with the festival going on there were people everywhere. Plenty of people to ‘accept’ food from and even a couple who gave perfect scritches. They were the ones he really liked, they had even giggled as they clipped a dangly little amber star charm to his collar like necklace saying it matched his fur color. Sadly he had to move on, such was the life of a wandering Guardian cat. Didn’t have anything to do with the lady with short hair angrily pointing at him while muttering to a guy in an Animal Control uniform. He didn’t want to deal with one of those people, they weren’t terribly nice. Didn’t even give him pizza! Let alone any good fish whenever he was shoved in one of their crates. So he ran and ran and ran some more until he couldn’t run anymore. The large cat found some water to drink and soon he was just chilling outside of this candy store when this lady and her toddler came outside. The toddler was munching on something but when the little girl spotted the Guardian she giggled and started to babble.
Well one thing led to another and there Mel was, now even further away since the little girl started to cry as soon as he accepted her offered treat, tired and thirsty. But there wasn’t anything he could do about his thirst since he couldn’t open his mouth!!!
The candy he had been given had gotten super soft and gummy and now he couldn’t do anything but mumble through his stuck together teeth. This would not do! It just wouldn’t! What if he could never eat again? No more pizza! No more ice cream! No more SUSHI! The guardian cat practically wailed in sadness at the thought of no more sushi, his muffled cries just sounding like a poor kitten whimpering. Finally, unable to take the thought of no more fish EVER the guardian cat started to search for things that would help!
First he tried water by shoving his face into a puddle… no go. His mouth was still glued shut and now he was wet. Then he tried peanut butter, well a tossed PB&J sandwich. Still no good. Item after item, try after try. Still no luck for the now mute cat. Mel now sat outside of a pizza joint dejected and looking worse then he ever had before. Covered in all kinds of stuff, fur matted and bedraggled. If he could never have pizza again at least he could enjoy the smell.
“Awww poor fellow. Here you go.” Mel glanced up when a human approached and let out a little merrrr, just about the only sound he could make since his mouth was glued shut, but quickly perked up when he spotted the small piece of pizza that was offered to him. He sniffed at it and overcome by the urge, he tried to take a huge bite out of the offering. It was only once he was munching down did it occur to him that he could open his mouth again! Heck yeah!
That's the power of pizza for you!
