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(Do you think we should explain who Sally is for non-Mundanites?)
Some brackets (((( ... )))) for all those with car troubles. Those days are not at all long behind me and I can still feel your pain!!
LOL!!! Feckin hippies!!
In all fairness, the expensive stuff you get from the vet isn't very effective anymore.
scratch scratch - I'm allergic to flea bites and so's my little boy.
we've spent a fortune on spray recently.
I've just set up internet banking with Santander - I logged in the first time about ten minutes ago. There are an awful lot of security questions.
I was going to go out for a run this morning. I'm wearing my running kit, but have retreated under the duvet because it's so blinking cold. I am being productive, just not in the way I meant...
There's nothing wrong with putting coleslaw on mackeral fillets. My lunch and I'll eat it how I want to.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. If you buy the proper preventative product for the pet in its environment (they depend on whether ticks are an issue and whether you have a mixed cat/dog house) and use the correct dose for the weight and apply at the correct intervals then it very unusual to have an animal with a flea infestation.
If you've had an infestation in your house then you need to treat with spray according to the instructions (it takes about 7 hours to do a house) and repeat in 10 days or so. That should get rid of lavae and eggs.
If you just spray the house or the pet once they've got them then you're basically wasting your money.
GFB - if you can, i recommend moving to First Direct or HSBC, they're MUCH better, esp. FD. Santander are utterly crap, and the security things are too hard to remember, lol. I've had to reset it about 3 times. I changed my current account from A&L, and I've only got a santander credit card now, but I want to transfer the balance to another card because I hate them so much.
Rant for today: period pains - F*CK OFF NOW!!! I'm sick of this shit, totally and utterly sick of it
Stop sending conversation invites, an email will suffice.
TP - I have to disagree with you. My vet disagrees with you as well. I use the correct dose for the size of animal and use it at the correct intervals. I have 3 cats, no dogs. We have fleas. one cat is on Frontline the other 2 are on advocat(sp)? (the other cat is allergic to this).
The vet concurs that these are no longer effective against fleas as they once were. Frontline esp so. The nurse said that a lot of people had gone down to 2 week intervals.
Believe me I know what I'm doing when it comes to getting rid of fleas. We use Indorex spray in the house. Plus we launder just about everything the cats go near. We have had the current infestation for months as the cats carry the eggs and lavea around. They are going through the full life cycle despite the frontline and indorex saying they should prevent this. The house gets blitzed on a regular basis. This is recent in that up until spring of this year we had been using the frontline without any signs of fleas. The spray is about the only thing that works as you can see fleas on the cats regardless of how recently or otherwise they were treated.
Put quite simply Frontline and Advocat don't kill fleas.
TP - only talking - the date on the latest script is 17th Sept and i know I dosed them then and also this weekend gone as I found fleas and was also bitten.
I need something to take my mind off the bites. Should I spray myslf with advocaat? no comments about what to do with the cherry.
Anyway, it's getting cold out so maybe the cats will stay indoors a bit more and I can control their environment. Sleeping on my lap is fav today.
USB, we used to do the same, only we used boiling (or very hot) water. The cat always had the occassional flea but the levels were low enough that they were never a problem, and she was a real hunter and explorer (often didn't eat the food we put down for up to a week as she caught ehr own, and sometimes she didn't come in the house at all for days, although we would see her out and about).
I had a serious infestation in the spring. Eventually we got rid of it after treating the whole house and the cat several times. We concluded that she was bringing fresh ones in from the garden so there was very little we could do about that other than keep her in (which she would have hated)
Dear Everyone involved in our house purchase -
Hurry up (I am looking at you in particular mortgage lender) it really shouldn't be this complicated when there's no chain involved. And to those getting sick of my chasing e-mails - if you did the job I am paying you so much money to do, you wouldn't have to read them several times a week. I don't enjoy having to spend time phoning/e-mailing you constantly. I have my own friends I'd much rather be talking to.
Also as a side note - Dear right foot, you've had almost a year to get over the stress fracture. Please pull yourself together a bit and stop causing problems for everybody else.
Phew I am a bit grouchy this morning!
Dear Colleague,
I really hope we win this work that will involve you going up north for a couple of months and standing in a field in the cold. As you seem to want the office to be at about -1 I don't know what you're complaining about, it'll suit you down to the ground, and I can spend 2 months without someone turning the heating back off every time turn it on, and not having to sit at my dek in fleece and gloves.
I'm surprised you'd complain about the cold Angel - with an avatar like that!
*note to self*
Perhaps getting a cat in the future is NOT such a good idea after all
Wilkie, my cat is outside a lot and she's never had fleas.
TP, interesting conversation with my vet this morning. She feels that, with the exception of Frontline, no over the counter stuff available in supermarkets is worth buying.
Nam, my experience when I worked for the animal rescue was the same. We only ever used Frontline from the vet on our animals and never had a flea problem.
My cat tends to sleep in the same spots in the garden. I think she had contaminated those spots, where we couldn't treat them, so although the house was clean she kept bringing them in. I wasn't saying that fleas are rife out in the big wide world.
I've had four cats over the years. One had a constant mild flea problem as she was allergic to treatment so we controlled them by combing (this was a while ago and I believe that there are other treatment methods now), and none of the others have ever had a problem until this spring. I have heard from a lot of people that this spring was a good breeding season for fleas.