Kittens, Fleas & Things To Do During Detox

OR SHOULD I SAY DURING WITHDRAWEL.

I don't know, I was watching House & detox sounded so much nicer.

Anyway- my wife, who I have concluded is a certified cat person, 'acquired ' an additional kitten last year when I was working out of town for a few months and I had the weird experience of checking this board after being absent and finding out I had died. ---BUT THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE POST--

So, it wasn't too bad when I got back to our little $hit apartment we had gotten stuck in due to unforseen circumstances. (Every now and then I think God looks down, Sees things aren't going too bad for Old Harold, so he figures its probably time to stir things up lest Harold get.....ummmm, well lets just stir things up)

We only had 2 dogs & 2 other cats, & maybe some birds and miscel. reptiles.

Well the earth spins (or whatever it does) a few hundred times, & lo & behold this cat gets knocked up. Anyway, by now after moving maybe 300 times or so, we have a decent place & the monthly rent is probably about as much as the landlord originally paid for the house.
BUT THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE POST

Well we just had to keep most of the baby kittens & now we have: 2 dogs, 6 or 7 cats, 3 birds, 2 rabbits, 1 boy and 1 girl away at college.

SOmehow, I got to be the one to take care of the animals as far as flee control.

Not having grown up around cats I wasn't sure how much a rumor it was about them hating water until I talked my son into trying to help me bath 4 cats at the same time- in the bathtub. I would, of course hold onto the main one I was going to wash first.

Well we were in the bathroom with the door closed & my son advised me that it was a very bad idea. He had the audacity to not put the other 3 in the tub till we saw how the first one acted. What a coward.

ANYWAY, CATS REALLY DO NOT LIKE WATER..

But that too, does not have much to do with this. I have run out of time as my free poker tournemant has started. I'll finish this after. Who knows, I might win first place and be the proud winner of $14.00.=--That , too is anotheer story-



BUt
oh how true!CATS HATE WATER!! i found that out the hard way, one day into my release from a 16 day stay at rehab, i was horrified to come home to a house infested with fleas! bombed the house for flea control before i left and while i was away those suckers hatched! i have 3 dogs, one kitty and a bunny, never in 15 yrs of owning animals had i had a flea problem.
my mistake was trying to flea dip kitty, he turned into the exorcist and i was pretty injured when i attempted this.
so this is the antedote: orkin needs to come in and de-flea the apartment. then the animals will need a monthly application of frontline, you get it at your vets office.
i will need to start this asap for my critters. fortunately the rabbit never got infested as her cage is on hard wood floors and fleas love carpet. ggod luck, jewels, also the animals will need to be kept indoors because if they go outside again they will become infested.
Anyway, if u were able to suffer thru that first part of my post, bless yooou. I will get to the point after I tell u that I believe when my wife is old and grey and I have moved on to a better place, she will probably become one of those crazy old cat ladies you hear about--You know , they have a couple hundred cats and die leaving their fortune to cats.

Well , now that i think of it, maybe she is close now, except for the money part.

But, before i get into THINGS TO DO DURING WD''S,, i HAVE a question. Can someone, anyone, please tell me what purpose fleas serve in this wonderful creation.

Now, I understand they are good for carrying disease (like the black plague) - and I guess some of our terrorist buddies might think it is good offing all of us infidels, but other then that. WHAT GOOD DO THEY DO. TELL ME ONE THING.

Also, I have a plastic baggie with about 100 living fleas that I combed off my animals today. Before I kill them, anyone have someone the dont like. (thats a joke people.)

SO, FINALLY, we all know withdrawels suck. My opinion is THAT WITHDRAWELS DONT TEACH ANYONE ANYTHING & are of no real value.
If someone disagrees, edify me.

If there is any safe way and legal (maybe) to get around them, I reccomend it.
It seems to me that the STUPIDIST OF ALL THAT I EVER HEARD WAS this one detox place I read about where the Dr let the people be mostly sick and feeling $hitty-----I mean really, if there is no health issue, y bother with the hospitol. I can stay home and be sick.

I think the best detoxs are where the hospitol takes u down easy, or almost knocks u out with BP opiate blockers for a few days.


So, besides sitting around feeling sick, and going to the bathroom & stuff, ddoes anyone have any ideas of things they can suggest. Matter of fact--so it doesnt get lost in all this quagmire of many meaningless words, I think I will post it under a new topic & maybe leave this open for suggestions on the value of fleas.
Hey Dog, good to see you around. The withdrawels serve a purpose for me, when I play that tape all the way through, thats one of the many things that scream out at me to "dont do it ya moron". (my inner voice doesnt have very good manners)

Regards,
Tom
Oh, man that has to be the worse.......like all ya want to do is get rid of your sickness and ya have to deal with fleas.

I love the way you write......that's good stuff.....you turn something lousy into something funny.

Hope you feel better quickly and get rid of them horrendous fleas.
LOL..fleas. Excellent comment Tom. If only we would all play the tape all the way through...
Bryn, Im not sick, sorry if I mixed it up a bit. Thanx for ur concern, but no WD's for me & I hope never again.

I guess Tom it would help playing the tape threw and remembering, but when i was trriggered that machine didnt work.

But that is probably the only good thing about WD's---if your inner voice can yell at yyou and u listen and remember-----yeah, I guess thats good.

I do notice now, I seem to automatically remember a lot of the bad things without even trying. If there was such a thing as a 'normal person' who somehow was aware of all those crummy things we felt, that is probably the way he would feel about using without even using. Hope that made sense. (and cowgirl when i say he i do mean he or she, because sometimes i think even girls can be normal=though a smaller ration)
lol.I know what you meant.