Re: smart plugs???

  On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:45:41 +0100, D wrote:
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A free range cat? Do you ever have problems with ticks? Every summer in
the country house when I was young, the neighbours cat would more or
less move in with us since the food was better than the dry food he got
at his home. But sometimes it would happen that I would read, and the
cat wanted petting. So I petted the cat while reading, then look at my
hand to discover ticks crawling there. So the cat brought us rich gifts
in the form of ticks and the occasional dead (or alive) mice.

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No, I've never seen tics on the cat. I've picked them up hiking but not
around home. The local version is the Rocky Mountain Wood Tick and true to
its name seems to prefer brushy areas. I don't think the cat goes out to
the tree line. There be dragons there.
>

 Ahh... smart cat! And very convenient! I read there's some kind of collar you can buy for cats that has some chemical that spreads throughout the fur and repels ticks. I do not know how effective it is, so caveta emptor!