Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Bathing a Cat and Other Silly Home Remedies



Just Try Bathing a Cat!

When I moved from Los Angeles to rural Illinois eighteen years ago, I learned about some home remedies I'd never heard of before:

If someone in your family is allergic to cat dander and you adopt a stray kitten, you can alleviate the dander by bathing the cat in distilled water. Have you ever tried to bathe a cat, especially a stray? How did that work out for you?


Really? I can make my cookies at home?

When baking several different kinds of cookies, first bake those calling for lower temperatures, then work up to the highest setting. You mean a person can bake their own cookies? The little elves don't bake them during the night, then put them on the shelves in the store before the sun comes up? Aha.

If you get a splinter, put a bit of bacon on it to draw it out. This might have worked fine if the splinter I acquired hadn't gone in at an angle, and if I didn't work at the front desk of a bank, where customers thought we had added to our "Super Extra Checking" by making breakfast for them!

Do you employ home remedies? What is your favorite from the list above, or one of your own?

2 comments:

  1. "If someone in your family is allergic to cat dander and you adopt a stray kitten, you can alleviate the dander by bathing the cat in distilled water."

    This made me laugh! Really? Maybe it's meant to make you stop complaining. I mean, after 2000 scratches a little sneezing doesn't seem so bad. You're just happy to be alive!

    The bacon one threw me. What about the raw pork germs getting in?

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  2. My daughter and I bathed a cat once. Never again! Scary even though people replied with "they will get used to it!" Well what about us!? HA!

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