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Skriven 2010-11-03 22:56:21 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
   Kommentar till text 3395 av Nancy Backus (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Ants
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Hello, Nancy.

Wednesday November 03 2010 at 15:00, you wrote to me:


 NB> Depends on the kitty, I'd think... same probably holds for the greasy
 NB> version of the trick...  I wonder if the boric acid would be as toxic
 NB> to the cats as to the ants, too...  My guess would be that in the
 NB> amounts one is likely to use for the ants, it wouldn't do more than
 NB> make the kitties a little sick if anything...  The same caveat might
 NB> also apply if there were little kiddies around, too, though...?

Well, boric acid works by literally shredding apart their insides because the
crystals are so sharp.  I'd assume that there would be unpleasant side effects
for any creature involved with digesting boric acid.

I'd say that you'd have to tell kids not to touch it too.  Some kids can't
resist eating everything inside, edible or inedible!

My cats shouldn't have problems if I have to do that for ants.  I have dropped
some of my pills - some are quite tiny and would kill a cat fairly quickly -
and never found them.  Felix is quite good at digging things out of cracks and
crevices but he has never done anything with medicine as far as I could tell.

Felix is looking up at me rather sleepily right now as if to say, "You said my
name; what do you want?"  He seems rather irritated right now; Maura is
watching Tim Burton's version of "Alice in Wonderland" and Felix does /not/
like all the loud noise...

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Cat Poop Cookies
 Categories: Cookies, Kids
      Yield: 1 servings

MMMMM-------------------CHOCOLATE INGREDIENTS------------------------
    1/2 c  Honey
    2/3 c  Butter, margarine, or lard
      1    Egg
      1 ts Vanilla extract
           -OR- peppermint extract
      2 c  Whole wheat flour
    1/3 c  Cocoa powder
           Grape-nuts(tm) cereal

MMMMM------------------GINGERBREAD INGREDIENTS-----------------------
    1/4 c  Honey
    1/4 c  Molasses
    2/3 c  Butter or margarine, or lard
      1    Egg
  2 1/3 c  Whole wheat flour
           Ginger, cinnamon, cloves
           - to taste
           -(maybe 1/2 tsp each)
           Grape-nuts(tm) cereal

MMMMM--------------------------MIX-INS-------------------------------
           Coconut; (tapeworms)
           Chocolate chips
           Butterscotch chips
           Peanut butter chips
           Spagetti or ramen noodles
           - cooked - (roundworms)
           Corn
           Peanuts
           "puffy pastel things"; *
           -find at Chinese restaurants

  *NOTE: "puffy pastel things are to look like the cat ate styrofoam
  packing pellets-i haven't tried this

  to make: microwave the honey till it bubbles(about 1 minute). add the
  butter,(i've been told using lard makes for a more realistic texture
  and softer cookie) and the molasses, if any. add the egg, mix well,
  then mix in all the other stuff. add mix-ins of your choice to some
  or all of the batter.

   chill 1 hour in the freezer or several hours in the fridge. roll
  dough logs of random length and the diameter of cat poops. roll logs
  in grape- nuts and bake at 350 degrees till done(maybe 10 to 15
  minutes but with my flaky oven you never know).

  serve in a disposable cat litter box on a bed of grapenuts, with a cat
  litter scoop.  i hear you get lovely effects by decorating the box and
  scoop with melted chocolate or pudding.  i imagine brown sugar might
  work as a substitute for the new clumping litters, but i havent tried
  it. this recipe worked especially well at the halloween party where
  the table was already decorated with plastic flies.

  From: Anne P. Mitchell JD k

MMMMM

Later,
Sean

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