Thread: Fleas!
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Old September 19th 12, 02:07 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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Default Fleas! Have you tried this?
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:43:09 -0700, Mack A. Damia
wrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:34:13 -0500, (See you in the
funny papers.) wrote:

Get a flea comb and comb Pookie several times a day. Have handy a glass
of dawn-laced water for them - as they come off on to the comb...dunk
the comb.

Just passing thru...hope you don't mind the suggestion.

I'm pretty sure I have a flea comb - the teeth are very close
together, but I have not been able to get any fleas at all while using
it. They slip through the teeth. I'll look for another one. Thanks!

Hah, when I was much younger (much much younger) I once managed to
catch a case of crab lice. I got some poison from the drugstore along
with a comb, and realized that that's where the expression "going over
something with a fine tooth comb" comes from. I remember laughing out
loud as the thought popped into my head. Until then it was just words
without context.

It's also where the expression "nit picking" comes from.