05-08-05  19:18, Barbara Mcnay told James Bradley about Hello!?

 How do, Barbara?

 > 05-06-05  06:49, Wayne Chirnside told Cindy Haglund
 
 > I recall hearing something about an acidic, or baseous
 > soap. (50% chance of guessing right here, but...) We
 > use an acidic formula to dislodge our baseous sweat,
 > (Or vise versa) where other mammals are the opposite.
 > Likewise, our sweat can wreck havoc on all but wool
 > fibre rugs for the same reason. It's the fluctuating
 > change of states in a dogs skin, and on most carpeting
 > that speed up their demise. Of course, I might have
 > heard total crap, so...

 BM> I don't know anything about the soap; if I bathe my dog, I use the
 BM> same  SoftSoap that I use for myself.  In dilute solutions, it 
 BM> kills fleas on contact, I discovered.  When dogs and cats 
 BM> ingest hair, they can't digest it. They either throw it up, 
 BM> or pass it through, unchanged by the acidity and alkalinity 
 BM> of the digestive tract, so perhaps the pH of the sweat is 
 BM> not the issue, but an appropriate pH that agrees with the 
 BM> skin. Dogs and cats sweat very little, in any event, which 
 BM> is why they pant when hot.

What little I know about soap, wouldn't *wash* a flea! 

All I can do is report on what I once read/heard. Being so long ago, I
couldn't remember where I gathered so much. I have no real way to test if
it's true or not.

I know you are right though, about the sweat glands. I know dogs will only
sweat through their tongues, and paws. Although, sweating through a tongue
never made much sense to me.


... James

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