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Post by ARENA on Sept 21, 2017 12:56:41 GMT
So that's the female of the species sorted but what kills the males? Natural causes. I think the poison just sterilises them. That might upset them a bit, but not kill them. Eventually there will be no males (or females) because they don't get born. The flea egg is almost indestructible.Trying to eradicate them in any other way, is futile. OH, tip; put a teaspoon of vinegar in your pets drinking bowl. It helps to deter the females feeding.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 21, 2017 14:00:34 GMT
When our first cat (Dingo) was run over we brought her inside for the night before burying her. We ought to have known better - you could see the fleas leaping off her even then. We spent the next few months with flea powder along every skirting board, and a constant smell and irritation from it. Oh, and flea bites: cat fleas can't live on humans, but you have to give them credit for trying. Cat fleas don't live on anything, they lurk in carpets etc. (Think claws!) I meant live on as in bite and drink the blood of: the do bite and drink, but I don't think it does them much good. But by the time they've found that out your legs are all over lumps and itching to buggery.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 18:15:59 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Sept 28, 2017 15:24:36 GMT
I bought Oberon one of these.....he loves it and mealtimes now are dog-free
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Post by ARENA on Sept 30, 2017 7:19:32 GMT
When women get to a certain age,they tend to start keeping lots of cats. This is known as the many paws.
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Post by honeybear on Mar 30, 2018 8:07:39 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Apr 2, 2018 9:11:27 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Apr 19, 2018 10:14:21 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Apr 20, 2018 8:56:50 GMT
How heart-warming
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Post by anybody on Apr 23, 2018 9:26:49 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Sept 1, 2021 6:59:57 GMT
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Post by goodlookingone on Sept 2, 2021 10:20:56 GMT
Sorry: No photy's - I'm not that "Techy". Always had a cat when I was a kid - I remember that Catfood was called Kit-e-Kat, smelt foul and was a pink colour - Days of meat rationing and I believe it was meat-of-any-beast-offcuts expanded by chalk, and a cats life was usually less than five years.
When My mum was in her last days I had to Leave work, Drive to Mum's house to feed Moggy and let him out for his ablutions, drive to collect sister, Visit Mum in Hospital, Take sister home, back to Mums to trying to induce moggy to come in, Give him his overnight food and drive home.. Eventually I took moggy home to my house, and He stayed long after Mum Died until I had to take him on his final journey to the vet...
Well of course, one cannot be catliess so I sought a new feline companion.... Sweep, the surviving twin of Sooty was found - I'm sorry to say that He left me - I had kept him indoors fot six weeks, but when I thought He felt secure enough to let him out about ten minutes before feeding time - He was never seen again (The Cat Finders peoplea ctually did a TV programme about searching for him - but some shapely actress was looking for her lost pet, was in the second half of that programme)_ so Sweep remained "unfound".
I then found an advert that another cat, 9 years old was in taken from his home when his human-person had entered a care home (I can't remember her actual ailment) so moggy was returned to The womans daughter: but the latter was found to be allergic to cats so He desperately needed a new home. Thus a late-evening foray to get reluctant cat into his basket, his toys, his food-bowls into a Taxi....
The cat was not not very friendly either to me, or his recent human, so I have pondered if He had some unhappy memories - or an unwanted even as a kitten. He hid under furniture to avoid coming near me - so I kept him in one room and but with his bed, litterbox, and food all there - but He continued to hide. SO... I ignored him, but I sat reading in that room (Biggles Flies Again from my childhood collection - since youn ask). After about Chapter ten, he did sniff around me but started if I moved. Then with all external doors and windows closed I left his door open, He would stay upstairs but watched me from the top step of the stairs. It took agesto get his confidence.
He is now 24 yrs old, is not fat but BIG, He weighs 6.2 Kilo, Now comandeers where He is to sleep and command his domain (latterly in the centre of my dining table - forpaws over one edge and the end of his tail overlapping the other side), but despite his age he is quite capable of leaping the odd few feet to leap from dining table to desktop to scatter papers and stamp on Keyboard; Certainly not shy about being in-charge of me, but scurries away from visitors.
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Post by ARENA on May 17, 2022 8:21:12 GMT
So when do we get to see Milo.....or is he camera shy?
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Post by althea on May 17, 2022 8:41:50 GMT
He is not camera shy, but it's hard to photograph a black dog and see his facial expression. I have posted a photo ,I'm almost sure. Anyhoo, here is another. And after the snip;
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Post by ARENA on May 17, 2022 8:50:10 GMT
He is not camera shy, but it's hard to photograph a black dog and see his facial expression. I have posted a photo ,I'm almost sure. Anyhoo, here is another. And after the snip; What a soulful little face, nice. BTW you did posted it before .My Oldtimers kicked in
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