Bill Lewis told Ruby……

At least weekly, more often if your puppy is a water dog, squirt a mixture of 50/50 white vinegar & rubbing alcohol in each ear. Rub from the outside, and/or swab with a cotton ball. Expect a head shake! The alcohol loosens wax & gunk, and dries the ear. The vinegar changes the pH, making that dark, damp place hostile to bacteria.

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Canned meat for dogs is usually 4 D meat - Disabled, Dying, Diseased, or Dead. It's unfit for human consumption, but OK with the USDA & the packers for our critters. Then it's packed in either tin-coated steel cans, that are soldered at the seams [solder contains lead, among other things], or in aluminum cans, and then heated to 'kill the germs,' which also kills the enzymes needed for digestion, and helps leech toxic tin, lead or aluminum into the food. Sound like what you'd like for dinner? Can't believe an alleged Vet is actually advertising for this stuff!

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I had heard years ago that banana peels, as described below, really worked. I think it was on the radio, but that doesn't matter. ALLEGEDLY, one can take a fresh banana peel, and leave it in the offending outdoor venue overnight. In the morning, one simply takes a number of Ziplocs equal to the number of banana peels along, picking up a-now-flea-covered peel, popping it in the Ziploc, and disposing of the pesky critters. As we've never [knock on wood] had even a flea, much less a flea problem, I was dying to find out if this worked. I can assure you from a very LARGE chunk of bandwidth last summer that, at least for one person, it DIDN'T work! But I'm still hopeful to find someone to try it, and prove that it DOES!!!!

A member of the List had an outdoor flea problem, so I related the "cure." Her husband and his friends were all made to eat a banana each, laughing uproariously, telling the lady she was on a "snipe hunt." Well, you guessed it - no fleas!!! All the grief she took from the snipe hunters got passed straight along to Sweet Ole' Bill!