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TDJ-- Goo, Cat Sauce, Cube Chews & Tobacco Dust, 08-28-08
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Feb 28, 2008 07:34 PST
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Goo, Cat Sauce, Cube Chews & Tobacco Dust
My friend gave me this suggestion (it had worked for her) when I was at
my wit's end with a skin condition on the top of my cat's head. Even
the veterinarian's treatments were not helping. My friend told me to
get a fresh aloe Vera plant, break a stock open and rub the gooey goo on
top of her head a couple of times a day. It was amazing - the rawness
started healing immediately and within a week the condition that had
been there for two months was gone. I was fortunate that it was on top
of her head - any place else and I think you would have to use one of
those cone gizmos around the neck, or your little critter will
immediately lick it off.
--submitted by Susan Malone
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I got this tip from my vet. To bring back the shine in my dogs coat I
was told to give her cod liver oil capsules. Works great and the dog
loves them.
--submitted by Deb
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We have 2 new kittens and they are the devil incarnate, I have caught
them chewing on electrical wires, plants and anything else they can get
their little teeth on. I have tried different things to keep them away
from their favored chew toys to no avail. Recently I decided to fight
back with hot sauce. Now I sprinkle hot sauce on the wires, plants and
anything else they decide to chew and it works! I wish I had of
discovered it before they ruined my answering machine!
--submitted by Pat Hudson-Sommers
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This isn't rocket science, but worked well when my I got my new puppy:
Gave him ice cubes to chew on while teething; he loved them and they
were cheap!
Attached him to me with his leash fastened at my waist (kind of like an
umbilical cord). I could get things done without worrying about what he
was doing and he learned to move with me. Of course, now, he has to be
wherever I am and he's always around my feet!
--submitted by Brender
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During the winter in some parts of South Africa we don't get much rain
for about 5 months and then end up with a flea problem. We have
overcome the flea infestation in the grass and on our pets by dusting
the lawn and the kennels and bedding with tobacco dust. I have also
made them each a pillow with a couple of smaller tobacco-dust bags in
the big one. Keeps the fleas at bay and the pets (as well as their
humans) very happy.
Regards,
--submitted by Charmaine Pieterse
Tim says: I'm not sure what tobacco dust is. Maybe cloth bags filled
with rolling tobacco? I have no idea and this tip was from WAY back in
2001.
{{{ TODAY'S GRIPE }}}
My gripe is people who travel in posses in stores, usually friends or
families, and spread out in the aisles, walking as slowly as possible.
When I get behind a group like that and am in a hurry to move along, I
just want to scream at them to "get out of the way"!
--submitted by Marcie S. in Wisconsin
Tim says: yep! Let's stroll hand-in-hand down this very W-I-D-E aisle.
Lookit over there! Let's meander this way and that.
{{{ MR. GREEN THINGS }}}
I use white vinegar to kill un-wanted weeds... does it generally in one
or two applications.. Pour directly on plant in the morning. Next day
either all brown or most of the way. Great on dandelions, unless you
make tea from them. A gallon of vinegar is under $2.
--submitted by Jack Crisp
{{{ MR. GREEN THINGS FEEDBACK }}}
RE: reusable shopping bags.
I read the tip about the larger Home Depot bags for groceries and just
want to advise to use only lighter weight items in them, or at least mix
up heavy and light items. The smaller reusable green grocery bags can be
very heavy when toting canned goods, jars and even heavier produce.
--submitted byDebbie (Wheaton IL)
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TODAY'S CLASSIC GROAN:
The driver of a huge tractor trailer lost control of his rig, he plowed
into an empty tollbooth and smashed it to pieces. He climbed down from
his truck and looked at the wreckage, not quite sure what to do. Within
a matter of minutes, another truck pulled up and unloaded a crew of
workers. The men picked up each broken piece of the former tollbooth and
spread some kind of creamy substance on it. Then they began fitting the
pieces together. In less than a half hour, they had the entire tollbooth
reconstructed and good as new.
"Astonishing!" the truck driver said to the crew chief. "What was that
white stuff you used to get all of the pieces together?"
The crew chief said, "Oh, that was tollgate booth paste."
--submitted by Bob in Adelaide South Australia
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"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block."
--Inigo DeLeon
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MINI GROAN
Tim says: speaking of writer's block...
A lion was roaming the African jungle. He was terribly hungry. He came
across two men sitting under a tree. One was pounding away on a
typewriter; the other was reading a book. The lion devoured the man
reading the book. He avoided the writer. Even lions know that readers
digest and writers cramp.
--submitted by Sally
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