-=> Quoting Jo Peshek to Walter Luffman <=-
 JP> Actually...we lost an excellent flea cure when the fleas
 JP> became immune to Sevin.  Flea infestations are at an all-
 JP> time high and people who have *no* pets are finding their
I used to work at a place that was infested with fleas
(squirrels got into the heat ducts, and brought the fleas
with them).  A woman who worked with me must have been
especially tasty, because they'd practically eat her alive.
She finally stopped them by wrapping around her ankles
sticky-side-out.  (Duct tape works especially well.)
Believe it or not, it worked.
Afterward, she'd double the tape back on itself, encase
the fleas in tape, and stomp them to death.
The fleas never bothered me, for some reason.
 JP> homes infested.  The new flea-handlers are excellent, but
 JP> I wonder how long it will be before fleas develop
 JP> resistance to those products.  It's NOT easy to get rid
Sounds like the problem we're having with antibiotics.
The ones that used to be so effective are now useless
against many forms of bacteria; the newer ones that still
work are very expensive by comparison, but the bacteria
are becoming resistant to them too.  
 JP> Gosh, imagine:  You have no pet to put ADVANTAGE or TOP
 JP> SPOT on, you have fleas in your carpet and bed and easy
 JP> chair, and the sprays don't work.  What do you do?  RENT
 JP> A CAT!!  ;>
I can see it now.  Shelters everywhere will rent cats for
a weekly rate that's carefully calculated to be just
slightly more than one-quarter of the adoption fee.  "Of
course, you'll probably need to keep Fluffy for at least
a month to make sure you get the new fleas as they hatch
out...or, if you want to save a little money...."
Walter, wluffman@usit.net    CompuServe: 74721,3464
... Humans are hard to train, but most cats manage to do so eventually.
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