Book Board Chat

oh, sam, you have my sympathy. one of my dogs, buck, rescues every feral kitten he finds (no matter what age, even if their eyes are just opened) and brings it to me all wet and cold and pitiful. he is a lot like lennie in 'of mice and men'. he means well, but after being carried around for awhile and then put on the ground so he can run around them and show them how cool he is and what a good buddy he will make, they are in much worse shape, and then i have to bottle feed them with him looking anxiously over my shoulder. and he doesn't understand that he is murdering them: he thinks he is saving them after their mothers abandoned them. thank heaven most of the ferals have been caught up and neutered and it hasn't happened for several years. my own badkitty and my friend's kitty, piglet, are his last two 'rescues' and they are 7.

20 mule team borax sprinkled into the carpet, left for a few hours and then vacuumed up is death on fleas with no horrid smell/toxicity. but diatomaceous earth is the bomb; it is just harder to find.