Really wish I’d known that sooner, previous owners had a rabbit and the smell didn’t go away until I used TSP on all the walls and had the carpets and furnace cleaned thoroughly. Of course I only got the paint done in the living room, so it wouldn’t have helped much then as the rabbit was kept in the dining room. I have plans for that area though.
Hope Maggie feels better Chimera!!
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I’m a bit of an… um… difficult body shape to find smart clothes for. Basically if it fits in the waist, it ain’t going to do up over the boobs. Luckily, there’s a clothing company in the UK which caters for us booby wimmins, but they’re waaay expensive.
I’m not getting anywhere near enough hours at work at the moment, so I’m trying to get an entry level office job as well. I’ve been trying to get some vaguely professional looking clothes with very little money, and found one of this company’s really smart looking shirts on ebay- new, in my size, dead cheap, just what I’d need for interviews, yay!
Won the auction, it arrived today, and… wha? The label says it’s the same as I normally get off them, but I can barely do the damn thing up. There’s hardly any more extra boob room than in a normal high street size, and it looks ludicrous on. I think someone stuck the wrong label on. A complete waste of time and money. Bah.
Hey, Chimera. Very sorry to hear about Maggie. Let us know how she comes through this, okay?
All you people talking about bedbugs and fleas are making me itchy. Stop that.
Chimera, I paid off my cc in December and then started using it as a gas card. I still use it, but it’s paid off every month. I understand that makes me look better to credit-type people.
purplehorseshoe, I’m sorry but real barbecue comes from a pig, not a cow.
What are you spraying with?
They are happy with all upholstered furniture. Beds are just convenient feeding spots because you spend so many hours in them, lying more or less still. Ditch any cushioned office chairs ASAP…
You’re so, what’s the word? Funny? No, that’s not it…
You might end up having to yank the carpet out. I don’t think you can clean it thoroughly enough to get an embedded smell out. We don’t have any carpets here - our problem was the closets. Once I Kilz’ed the closets, the smoke smell in here dropped significantly.
Wow, Chimera, your post was quite the roller-coaster! My fingers are crossed for Maggie, too.
Eventually. The carpets are upstairs only and the smell seems to be gone now. I haven’t noticed it at all since I scrubbed and I would notice it when I walked in the house.
Found some non-toxic spray on Amazon that had decent reviews.
Interesting active ingredients. Will be super easy to make more.
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate* 3.7% (1.18 oz per quart)
Sodium Chloride** 1.0% (0.32 oz per quart)
Peppermint Oil 0.15% (0.05 oz per quart)
Potassium Sorbate*** 0.11% (0.035 oz per quart)
So for $25-28, including shipping on the SLS and oil, I would have enough to make about 13 quarts of the stuff, with a little left over of the oil and PS.
I would like to pit this cat.
Why? for his habit of finding long stringy things to chew on, and for indulging that habit every chance he got until he finally managed to choke to death today.
We rushed him to the vet while he was still wheezing and struggling, but to no avail. Lil’ Miss Sous-Chef was holding him on her lap in the car when he stopped breathing and then stopped moving. She’s really messed up about it. The vet tried to revive him, but it was too late.
If the stupid fucking furball had to off himself, why couldn’t he at least have done it TOMORROW when the kids weren’t right there in the damned room? They’re not going to be able to just shake off this trauma.
My poor boy. I only had a year with him.
Edited to add: By the way, thanks to the commenters upthread who warned about getting cat bites treated immediately. Dorito bit me quite hard on the hand. I’ll get it looked at.
Oh noooo… Chef Troy, what a pretty cat …
So very sorry for this horrid news.
So sorry, Chef Troy. I nearly had a ferret kill himself on a rubber band that snuck in with the mail, even though I did my best to ban all rubber/foam things from my home. Some pets just seem determined to do the worst to themselves, regardless of how hard you try to protect them, and that’s not your family’s fault.
{{{Chef Troy}}}
A buddy of mine lost a cat to a hairball like that. I think he and his wife were able to herd their kids out of the room, but they had to say in there with him.
Lil’ Miss Sous-Chef got one of those rubber-band looms for making bracelets with for Xmas, and she had a bad habit of leaving the little rubber bands on the floor. I fussed at her just a week or two ago about the risk of Dorito finding one and choking on it. She was TERRIFIED that this was her fault, so I told her I’d ask the vet what the cat choked on. The vet told me there was no way to tell.
So I told Lil’ Miss Sous-Chef that it was definitely NOT a rubber band, that it was a piece of string. I do not feel bad at all for lying to my daughter’s face. She’s only 11, she doesn’t need to think there’s the slightest chance this was even partly her fault.
Even though I am a fan of supporting small businesses, I will no longer be going to the local hardware store around the corner from my house because I’m tired of old men in aprons talking to me like they’re just killing time until the husband who lost me and (gods forbid) allowed me to open my mouth comes to find me. I have thus far received the same treatment when asking about wall anchors, wire cutters, and now truck rental. Fuck you guys. Just because I have boobs doesn’t mean I don’t understand that a full gas tank means (direct quote) “the needle is pointing at F.”
Oh, Chef Troy, I am so, so sorry about your kitteh. 
Damn, Draelin, that is messed up. I remember an old guy who made me go get my husband to rent a truck, because I couldn’t possibly know how to use a stick shift, but that was back in 1975.
Sorry you had to put up with that. Some people just aren’t meant to live in apartments.
The tupperware and ziplocks for sure. Hadn’t heard of the eucalyptus balls. I’ll try that next time. And there’s always a next time.
Our last infestation was big and recurring. We eventually had to remove all drawers to clean the bottoms, because they were pasting cocoons there, and dismantle the movable hutch. They had set up nurseries on the undersides of several parts of it.
Sad to hear that so many kitties have died recently (this thread and others). Sympathy to all the families.
I hates hates HATES that sort of stuff. I don’t know much about hardware, so I don’t mind it so much when I’m asking simple questions, but when I go into a Harley shop and ask for a specific part for the bike I’ve been riding and maintaining for 10 years…don’t give me that shit because I will take my business elsewhere AND I will shoot the store manager an email telling them why and naming names.
Now, I will give a shout out to the Prescott Valley Ace Hardware. Those guys were awesome. Anytime I went there with questions, they patiently explained how to fix whatever it was, what I needed and demonstrated what I needed to do. They never acted like I was stupid because I had boobs and blond hair. They acted like they thought I was ignorant because I hadn’t learned, so they would teach me. When I was fixing my sink, one of them gave me his cell phone number so I could call him if I had problems.
I sent his manager an email as well. Businesses need to hear compliments when their people are doing things above and beyond.
Chimera, I hope Maggie is better soon and that your CC won’t take too much of a ding.
Chef Troy I don’t blame you for lying to your daughter and I’m sorry you lost your kitteh so young. He was a very handsome guy.
Thankfully, just a common garden variety UTI. Got pills and some pain meds for her. Going to grab her right now to administer the first dose.
Use Pill Pockets. They are a godsend and a miracle.