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Ed,
Last year, I remember that you advocated a technique to "build trust" in
your ferret that basically involved suffocating the animal with its
harness for a brief period of time. That kind of made me wonder.
Then earlier this year, I remember that you implied that Totally Ferret
was made of actual ferrets. That made me wonder, too.
Now, you are advocating that people put a household insecticide which is
labelled as POISONOUS to animals directly on their pets. Well, I'm still
wondering.
In answer to your post:
>Remember that I emphasized that only the 5% carbaryl powder be used for
>heavy flea infestation control and that any sensible person who uses an
>insecticide has got enough 'twixt his ears to read the handling instructions
>on the container before using the flea powder.
Ed, carbyrl (Sevin) is not a "flea powder". It is a household lawn and
garden insecticide, sold in the garden section of hardware stores. It is
labelled as HAZARDOUS to domestic animals. When I called the manufacturer
of Sevin to ask them about applying it to pets, they were aghast that this
would occur to anyone. It's for killing insects in your garden.
>I should hope that the FML readers will realize your negativity on this
>subject is straight out of the literature
Actually, the literature my "negativity" came out of was:
1) a major medical encyclopedia (Mosby's)
2) and the *manufacturer* of Sevin's own label warnings (from the MSDS)
>and not based one wit on your personal experience.
I should hope not. I don't spray Raid on my pets, either .. but I wouldn't
hesitate to tell people that it's a bad idea.
>Further not once in your alarmist discourse is the word ferret ever
>mentioned. What you have posted applies to human beings and not ferrets
>... am I correct?
Of course, ferrets aren't mentioned! Sevin is not a flea powder for pets,
Ed ... it's a household insect killer. The manufacturer puts a label on it
telling you it is POISONOUS to pets!
>By the way, what do you use? You didn't say.
Nothing. We are lucky enough not to have fleas here.
- Ela
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