Do Not Eat

Yes, we all know that you're not supposed to eat silica gel.  Curry knows this too:

"So my mom gets a new backpack and as she's taking it out of the plastic wrapping, out falls one of those ubiquitous silica gel packets.  Only, mom didn't notice it fall on the floor.  Well, Zorro did.  Now, I love my brother Zorro.  He's my favorite brother and he's a real sweetheart.  But he can't read.  Therefore he didn't see that the packet was marked 'DO NOT EAT.'  So what does the boy do?  He chews the packet open!  That got our attention - mine and mom's.  When a silica gel packet is chewed open and all the little silica beads roll out onto a wood floor, it sounds like rain.  Yup, rain.  It took us a minute to get our bearings as the little silica 'bearings' rolled around on the floor.  They were tiny and difficult to see, but noisy!  And of course my dumb brothers start chasing them around the floor.  So mom goes into panic mode because she knows that these are poisonous.  (I know this too, so I kept my distance.)  Mom scares the boys away from the beads while she gets the vacuum and sucks them up.  She didn't get them all though.  Since that night, Grayson has been finding stray silica beads and swatting them about the floor.  I don't know how he can see them because it's like finding a needle in a haystack, but he does.  The good news is that they are loud so when mom hears him playing with one, she picks it up.  That silly Grayson kitten.  That's him in the photo; he's nine months old.  I'll share more about Grayson in the future.  For now, let's suffice it to say that he's an annoying little kitten who gets on my nerves.  Still, I don't want him or Zorro to eat the silica and get sick.  They just need to be smarter like me and Willie, and leave the beads alone."

The moral of the story, folks, is to watch out for those silica gel packets when you're unpacking new things.  Those little packets can escape, and pets can chew them open.  Please be careful!