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Subject: Re: smart plugs???
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:04:48 +0100
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 18/01/2025 10:38, D wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:45:41 +0100, D wrote:
>>> 
>>>> A free range cat? Do you ever have problems with ticks? Every summer in
>>>> the country house when I was young, the neighbours cat would more or
>>>> less move in with us since the food was better than the dry food he got
>>>> at his home. But sometimes it would happen that I would read, and the
>>>> cat wanted petting. So I petted the cat while reading, then look at my
>>>> hand to discover ticks crawling there. So the cat brought us rich gifts
>>>> in the form of ticks and the occasional dead (or alive) mice.
>>> 
>>> No, I've never seen tics on the cat. I've picked them up hiking but not
>>> around home. The local version is the Rocky Mountain Wood Tick and true to
>>> its name seems to prefer brushy areas. I don't think the cat goes out to
>>> the tree line. There be dragons there.
>>> 
>> 
>> Ahh... smart cat! And very convenient! I read there's some kind of collar 
>> you can buy for cats that has some chemical that spreads throughout the fur 
>> and repels ticks. I do not know how effective it is, so caveta emptor!
>
> Its pretty good.
>
> But so is spraying them,. They hate it, but that works too

Could be a good punishment for when they have been naughty?