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any cat friendly fly repellent?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:31:29 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote: John F. Eldredge wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:54:33 +0000 (UTC), Cheryl Perkins wrote: jmcquown wrote: Perhaps hanging "fly strips"? I'm not even sure they still sell those. My parents used to hang them in their garage to keep flies from coming in via the kitchen door. Flies are annoying. Sometimes called flypaper, and I think some hardware stores still carry it. There's a funny story in Pratchett's 'The Unadulterated Cat' about a cat who stared at the swaying flypaper until he couldn't resist attacking it... When I was in Europe, they had a kind of cross between camping mosquito coils and Glade plug-ins that you could use indoors and supposedly either repelled or killed small flying insects. Certainly, I wasn't bothered by mosquitos or flies when I was in houses using these even though they had no window screens. But I don't think I've seen those particular products in North America; only the more powerful outdoors versions. One thing to keep in mind is that, while some forms of flypaper are basically glue strips, so that the flies remain stuck and die of starvation, many brands of flypaper have poison mixed in with the glue. The fly lands on the flypaper and takes off again, but the poisonous glue sticks to its feet, and the fly ingests the poison when it licks the glue off of its feet. Back in the 1970s, I remember hearing warnings that flypaper gave off poisonous fumes as well, but I don't know the truth of that statement. But if the cat ate poisoned flies, it might not be very good for the cat! (One argument against poisoning rats or mice in an environment that includes a cat.) That was my point, although I failed to say so explicitly. The poisonous-fumes variety, as well as any sort of room-fogging device, risk poisoning everyone in the household, human, feline, or other. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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