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Re: Flea Eggs 2 :-)

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On 8/14/2022 1:54 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> Some years back I posted a message here about this subject. I 
> can't get to it now cause my news server only goes so far back in 
> time.
> 
> So here is the good news at last! Table salt. As available and as 
> cheap as it is, as effective it certainly also is! :)
> 
> But my floor is hard everywhere in the house, I don't know how 
> effective it would be on carpeted floors. Somebody out there 
> should try it.
> 
> My entire house always begins to get full of fleas when last cold 
> month has passed. I do not use any of the commercially available 
> flea killers. Over the counter as well as vet prescribed ones. 
> Years back I tried them, all made me and my cats very sick. Also, 
> cats should not be bathed, it hurts them more than it helps them. 
> So flea shampoo is out of the question, plus never solves the 
> flea problem.
> 
> So this time, when flea season began and got to its highest gear, 
> I took my table salt shaker and splashed salt on all floors, all 
> desks, all counters, top of microwave ovens, top of refrigerator 
> and freezer, all appliances, all over my bed and on all cat beds 
> and cat litter boxes, on my chairs and sofa, and on anything that 
> has a more or less horizontal surface to it. And over anywhere in 
> the house that my cats ever go. My salt shaker holds 7 ounces of 
> salt, and I emptied it two times, so a bit more than a pound 
> covered all areas.
> 
> Then, as before, I continued using flea comb on my cats daily to 
> at least catch and drown some of them directly from the cats, 
> using a more fine comb that comes with good quality lice 
> treatment for humans. Usual combs catch only some of the largest 
> ones. The lice comb catches some of mid-sized ones as well. But 
> combing never catches enough fleas to even make the cats 
> comfortable enough.
> 
> Then about two weeks after, I noticed floor fleas have reduced in 
> number. Cats who only would run fast on the floor before letting 
> too many fleas jump on them, now just walked on the floor! But 
> still would not sit or sleep there.
> 
> Two more weeks after that cats began sitting and resting on the 
> floors :-)
> 
> Now I can hardly see any of my cats scratching themselves. There 
> are still a few fleas on them that flea combing cannot catch, but 
> they don't interfere into their lives and sleep and general 
> comfort during their sleep and waking hours.
> 
> Very effective indeed.
> 
> But a few notes to make sure:
> 
> - I happened to be using Himalayan salt when I decided to try 
> salt. I don't know for sure whether it was the salt itself or the 
> extra stuff in Himalayan salt that did it (stuff that gives a 
> pink color to it). So to be sure, use Himalayan salt instead of 
> regular salt. It is a little more expensive.
> 
> - As I mentioned above, I don't know how effective it is on 
> carpeted floors. On hard floors as you walk around you are 
> smashing the salt to a finer and finer degree. It could be that 
> this step is necessary. If that is indeed the case, then you can 
> make saturated salt water and spray it on the carpeted floor. 
> When it dries, it should leave much smaller crystals of salt just 
> about everywhere.
> 
> - although you'd feel the presence of tiny particles in your bed, 
> all you need to do to stop that annoying feeling is to ware 
> something very light before going to bed. You won't feel them 
> anymore.
> 
> - every time you mop the floors or change the bed sheets and 
> comforters and cat beds, you need to splash salt on those 
> surfaces again.
> 
> - I have no idea what the long term effect of having salt on 
> those stuff is. I don't see any decaying in the material. So I 
> guess will have to wait a few more months to see if it damaged 
> anything.
> 
> - when flea season is over you can safely resume a salt-free 
> floor until the next flea season begin :)
> 
> So here it is, the solution to a very nasty problem for those who 
> have pets, especially multiple pets :-)
> 
> 


Oh, I forgot. As before, fuck you Jewish chemists :-)

Fuck you indeed. You're a bunch of Bozos and you know it.



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