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I’m still Gagging on Walmart ‘Great Value’ Mild Italian Sausage, cooked up, took a slice , tasted like Pine-sol.

So I thought, I better be sure,doubting my own taste buds, assuming the sausage was good since we just bought it and it had an expiration date of 7/14 and this was only the 8th~

So I cut & tasted a different piece from another sausage that also had a -soapy Pine-Sol type taste, but was clearly gamier, so spit it out~

Then I looked closely at the sausages I had removed from the frying pan and placed on a plate -It was FULL OF WORM 100′S OF WORMS springing out all over the encasement – long white strings~

So Disgustingly GROSS~!!!

Recapping my actions in shock and totally grossed out~!!!………

Since I had steam/boiled them in a frying pan, I didn’t see all those long thin white thread like worms that had broken through their encasements and were hanging out cooked, [ as they tried to escape being parboiled.. ] since the fat that was boiled out frothed the water.

[I always parboil/steam sausage, then take them out cut them up to add to sauce]…

Not this time~!!!

I took off a small piece while cutting them and popped into my mouth to taste.

Tasted like PineSol smells~

So I forced it down, thinking ‘agh’, just some different seasonings or maybe the frying pan was a bit soapy{?}, so I decide to test another bite from another sausage to see if they were good or not..expecting the next piece to taste right….

Stronger yucky taste~!
What the heck??

This piece I spit out immediately…I couldnt believe that I got 2 items of bad meat from the St.Mary’s Pennsylvania Walmart~!

The 5 lb roll of 80/20 hamburger that I had just opened earlier,made a poping sound when I cut the tube open and it let out a smelly gas, so it was bad and now the sausage was full of worms~!!

Earlier, before cooking their sausage, I had opened a new 5 lb tube of the 80/20 hamburger, which let out a gas hiss and had a slight odor~ I wrapped that back up planning to return it to Walmart.

It wasn’t supposed to expire til 7/14 & we only bought it the night before! So I had my son, James smell it to confirm it was funky and put it back it the bag, tied it and placed it in the freezer so I could return it next trip to Walmart.

Because the hamburger was ‘bad’, I had decided to make spaghetti & sausage~

Yuck~!

I am glad I cook sausage separately before adding to sauce to cut down on the grease, but since I steam/boil it to get all the fat out, the water gets frothy a bit, so I didnt see that each sausage had these long thin white threads popped perpendicularly through the encasements!

I had cut off a chunk from the end of one sausage [before seeing the worms] and had eaten a piece that tasted kind of like soap or pine-sol, thinking my taste buds were ‘off’…

Then I figured I needed confirmation , so I cut another piece off another sausage and it tasted even worse so I spit that one out…

I took them out of the water, put them on a plate and then saw the little stringy things. I called James to see and initially he said it looked like it was just the encasements breaking down from boiling them, but ass we looked closer we then realized that there were more, as I turned the sausages over to look at the little strings, we then realized that they were long stringy white worms!!!!!

GROSSED OUT AND OUTRAGED, I IMMEDIATELY PUT MY FINGER DOWN MY THROAT- to try and vomit out the piece I had already swallowed.my stomach still remains queezy today!

James called up Walmart immediate and they apologized and said to bring them back, we decided to take the ride 15 miles to them and show them so they could put out a recall.

So we took them back to Walmart – grossed them out too~

Told them they better recall their crap~

They said they get it all premade, pre-frozen and even though it had the label and UPC that they weren’t saying whether or not they would send in a recall~ Come on~!!

If it was like that in my package, it had to be in others~!!

They gave me a $20 Gift Certificate [big deal!] but I can still feel that lump in my throat-

Although I know the worms were dead, its still grossing me out~!

Thinking about it, makes me wonder if at the meat plant perhaps when cleaning up and scraping away scraps, that someone must have put them into the vat and processed them into sausages- since they had a soapy, pine-sol type taste…sick~!

Disgusting – How many other packages will be like this??? Who else will be affected???

I normally love sausage, but now cant consider eating any.. especially their brand.

James and I then went to buy some non-meat food products, but I stopped by their sausage, seeing some packages still icy from being just brought out.

They had a 7/18 expiration date – so they either sold out all the 7/14 or maybe did know about it and removed them all.

Out of curiosity I started looking real close at their new packages and could see that under the encasements they those too looked like there were little white stringy things…that if boiled will most certainly pop through.

Where ever this pork sausage was processed at needs to have the FDA go in and inspect their plant and make them get rid of all their wormy meat!!

DONT BUY GREAT VALUE ITALIAN SAUSAGE!!!

DONT BUY ANY ‘GREAT VALUE SAUSAGES’ AS THEY ALL LOOK LIKE THEY COME FROM THE SAME PLACE~!!

New Presidential Candidate… If you dont want either of the ones that are running..!

 

Hi,

There’s an effort to elect an unknown random person as President…so I agreed to be their candiate !

 What I would do IF I were president ?~ Well let me tell you~ Here are just some of the things off the top of my head that I would like to see happen and would work hard for.. I have alot of other ideas as well~

But to get started this is what I would do IF I were president….

 Just like in the old days when politicians would promise a chicken in every pot, so I can promise a chicken in every pot [with the help of the USDA Food Stamp Program]

Cheaper gas prices [following Sarah Palin's approach to taxing oil companies]End the war in Iraq not by pulling out, but by taking over unconditionally and if need be , imperialistically for at least one generation [like England in India] and earnestly go wiping out any known or  suspected terrorist camps worldwide]

Impose a trade Tax on countries we are outsourcing American jobs to.

Increase military strength and not succumb to world pressures in telling us how to administer our foreign policies.

Compel nations relying on our foreign aid to join ‘our union’ in order to receive funding from us, they should be one with us, instead of using our money while continuing to hate or malign US.

Cut federal spending on executive jobs, eliminate waste in government spending by reducing administrative costs of agency operations~ If they want funding, more than 70% has to go for the actual purpose that it was intended, rather than red tape.

Make term limits on ALL government positions in Senate,Congress, eliminating their inflated expense accounts and pensions.

Make Government for the people, as a public service and trust rather than for power and lifetime of benefits.

Increase spending on education with a job placement payback service for all student loans, thus eliminating loan default~ Let them work it off!!

Make a new Civilian Conservation Corps to rebuild the infrastructure of the country, thus providing jobs to all who are unemployed  but able bodied.

Overturn Roe V Wade and re-educate America on the sanctity of life. Provide counselling and funding that would make our children the prize possession of America and educate them with discipline and pride so that the next generation will not be a bunch of self indulgent couch potatoes~

Bring ‘God’ back into the courts and place criminal sentences and fines on all who use government or religion for their own selfish gain,by re-evaluating tax exempt status annually of all who apply for non-profit status.

Place limits on administrative salaries in order to qualify for tax exempt status {why should any group pay its administrators $100,000+ a year while soliciting donations and tax exemption credits to provide their services?

Bring back honor, integrity and a sense of civil duty to all walks of life.

Reform prisons by making them into factories to make products currently being made by outsourcing.Our prison system should be able to compete with the foreign markets!Funds earned can go for prison reform and salaries.Then when the inmate is released, he/she will have a skill to be able to work and make an honest living rather than having to  go on welfare.

Provide work for  welfare recipients work from home such as telemarketers and other computer data  jobs that they can be easily trained for if they can not be part of the new Civilian Conservation Corps.

Test and evaluate all students to see what jobs would meet their potential.Enforce the policy of no one left behind and make everyone who is capable, able to meet the work that will allow them to produce and make themselves and their families self sufficient.

Require everyone to register for the draft and commit 2 years minimun to civil service and national defense. Make overseas duty voluntary however.

 

Watch my online video about this surprising new turn of events:

  http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=370617&altf=Bwf&altl=Ivsmfz  

Jot back a note to let me know what you think! :)

 

And IF I dont achieve enough backing to be elected this time, I want you to know that I endorse John Mc Cain and Sarah Palin for the presidency in Nov 2008 as the next best thing and totally am against Obama as not being fit to be president of our United States and if elected, believe America would fall an become a third world nation.

Too late to try to SAVE AMERICA  not enough Voted for McCain/Palin ~~~!!

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I’m still gagging on Walmart ‘Great Value’ Mild Italian Sausage, cooked up, took a slice , tasted like pine-sol. Cut & tasted a different one that had a -soapy pine- sole type taste so spit it out~

Then I looked closely-It was FULL OF WORM 100′S OF WORMS – So Disgustingly GROSS~!!!

Since I had steam/boiled them in a frying pan, I didnt see all the long thin white thread like worms that had broken through its encasements and were hanging out cooked, as they tried to escape being parboiled.. [I parboil/steam them then take them out cut them up and add to sauce]…

Not this time~!!! I took off a small piece while cutting them and popped into my mouth to taste. Tasted like PineSol smells~
So I forced it down, thinking ‘agh’, just some different seasonings or maybe the frying pan was a bit soapy, so I decide to test another bite from another sausage to see if they were good or not..expecting the next piece to taste right….

Stronger yucky taste~! What the heck?? This piece I spit out…Couldn’t believe that the 5 lb roll of 80/20 hamburger I had just opened which let out a smelly gas, so it was bad and now the sausage was full of worms~!!

Earlier, before cooking their sausage, I had opened the new 5 lb tube of the 80/20 hamburger, which let out a gas hiss and had a slight odor~ I wrapped that back up planning to return it to Walmart. It wasnt supposed to expire til 7/14 & we only bought it the night before! So I had James smell it to confirm it was funky and put it back it the bag, tied it and placed it in the freezer so I could return it.

Because the hamburger was ‘bad’, I had decided to make spaghetti & sausage~ Yuck~!
I am glad I cook sausage separately before adding to sauce to cut down on the grease, but since I steam/boil it to get all the fat out, the water gets frothy a bit, so I didn’t see that each sausage had these long thin white threads popped perpendicularly through the encasements!Worms!!

Reliving the moment again, I had cut off a chunk from the end of a sausage [before seeing the worms] and had eaten a piece that tasted kind of like soap or pine-sol, thinking my taste buds were ‘off’… Then I figured I needed confirmation , so I cut another piece off another sausage and it tasted even worse so I spit that one out…

I took them out of the water, put them on a plate and then saw the little stringy things. I called James to see and initially he said it looked like it was just the encasements breaking down from boiling them, but ass we looked closer we then realized that there were more, as I turned the sausages over to look at the little strings, we then realized that they were long stringy white worms!!!!!

GROSSED OUT AND OUTRAGED, I IMMEDIATELY PUT MY FINGER DOWN MY THROAT- to try and vomit out the piece I had swallowed.

James called up Walmart and though they apologized and said to bring them back, we decided to take the ride 15 miles to them and show them so they could put out a recall.

So we took them back to Walmart – grossed them out too~ Told them they better recall their crap~ They said they get it all premade, pre-frozen and even though it had the label and UPC that they weren’t saying whether or not they would send in a recall~ Come on~!! If it was like that in my package, it had to be in others~!!

They gave me a $20 Gift Certificate [big deal!] but I can still feel that lump in my throat-

I know the worms were dead, but still grossing me out~!Thinking about it, makes me wonder if at the meat plant perhaps when cleaning up and scraping away scraps, that someone must have put them into the vat and processed them into sausages- since they had a soapy, pine-sol type taste…sick~! Disgusting – How many other packages will be like this??? Who else will be affected???

I love sausage, generally, but now cant consider eating any.. especially their brand. James and I then went to buy some non-meat food products, but I stopped by their sausage, seeing some packages still icy from being just brought out. They had a 7/18 expiration date – so they either sold out all the 7/14 or maybe did know about it and removed them all.

Out of curiosity I started looking real close at their new packages and could see that under the encasements they those too looked like there were little white stringy things…that if boiled will most certainly pop through.

Where ever this pork sausage was processed at needs to have the FDA go in and inspect their plant and make them get rid of all their wormy meat!!

DONT BUY GREAT VALUE ITALIAN SAUSAGE!!! Also dont buy Premio, as they are the ones who make it~!

DONT BUY ANY ‘GREAT VALUE SAUSAGES’ AS THEY ALL LOOK LIKE THEY COME FROM THE SAME PLACE~!!

There is a saying about not looking at the roaring lion, but at the ones
crouching in the grass.The roaring lion is the one who is distracting
the prey while his pride goes out and captures & brings down the
prey.They bring it back to the roaring lion who then takes the kings
portion and then they devour whats left.

I worked at the WTC in the 80′s and have family members & former
school mates that worked there up til 9/11 I remember the fire drills
and bomb drills we had where we would have to walk down the stairs from
the 96th floor where I worked, to the mezzanine at the 78th floor, where
we would wait for the all clear announcement that we could go back to
work, or if we had to leave the building.

The stairs were short steps so I would hang on tight to the stair rail
to be careful not to fall. Walking downstairs after a dozen flights or
so becomes rhythmatic but starts to give a cardio workout. As I would
descend, like others, would think it was just a drill but wonder what if
this was the real thing?

I remember my office overlooking the south seeing Staten Island, the
Statue of Liberty and the Newark Airport. Even back then when looking at
planes coming and going from the airport, watching them at altitudes
below me.The building used to sway in the wind, 6 ft in every direction.

On windy days, the swaying of the building would make me queezy as it
swayed on its 4 large sub-basement springs.I wondered about fires and
planes, most did at some point or another.

I remember 9/11 as I was in a Pennsylvania hospital recovering from
surgery. Breakfast was brought to me and I turned on the TV to see a
view of 1WTC with smoke coming out. It was unclear as to the cause at
the moment as it was caught on video from the direction of Staten
Island. My heart ached.

I remember the 94 WTC bombing where my youngest brother, John Cosgriff, a
new policeman in the NYPD , on the job for about a week, was stationed
by the WTC and that my niece worked there as well.

As my brother approached the WTC, he saw a man, badly burned running
from the smoke filled garage of 2WTC. He called backup for help and ran
into the burning building, helping victims to come out of it. He
continued battling the smoke and went up the stairwells as they were
filling with black acrid smok. His flashlight beamed no further than 14
inches before his face since the smoke was so thick. He told people to
hold hands as he led them down a dozen flight of stairs, out to safety
as other rescue workers arrived on scene. He suffered smoke inhalation
as he kept going back in to rescue more people. He was later featured on
the cover of Newsweek and received a hero’s award from the city

Now it was 9/11/01, 7 years later as I watched on TV from my hospital
bed. Was he in the building this time ? Was my niece still working in
the building? I got on the phone and called NYC – all phone lines were
down. I stared at the TV and a second plane came and watched it as in
slow motion, pierce the northwest wall of the upper floors of 2 WTC and
then it was clear.

We were under attack~ I began to cry, seeing those stairwells in my mind
from years before. Seeing the crowds trying to rush down the stairs in
that thick black smoke, as others in non smoke filled stairways were
wondering if it was another drill or if it was for real, knowing that
only those on the floors that were hit would know what was happening ~
that there was a real fire and that those who were on the floors where
the plane pierced the building, would have seen as they died.
Announcements were being made for people not to panic, some even thought
it was just a drill so they waited too long to leave their offices.

I could hear their screams when they encountered crumbled floors and
smoke filled halls, echoing in my mind, as I wept. The phones still were
off line, as they remained offline for the rest of the day. I couldnt
even get through to any of my family on Staten Island, so didnt know if
more planes were crashing.

Then the Pentagon was also hit. Then they announced Flight 93 was
hijacked. I know the military was scrambling as our nation was under
attack. It was so surreal as I lay there in my hospital bed, worrying
about those in the WTC that were fighting for their lives and watching
in horror as some jumped to their deaths.

The flames grew, the ground was smoke filled. People were running from
the buildings with blackened faces, gasping for fresh air. My brother in
law John, a firefighter stationed in lower Manhattan was there as he
worked stationed in lower Manhattan.. My brother Chris, another NYFD
captain, was on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge at headquarters
when it occurred.

He and his men put on their gear and ran across the Brooklyn Bridge
against the tide of panicking people, who were making their exodus from
Manhattan, fleeing for their lives. Running against this overwhelming
tide of people hindered getting to the scene, but may have saved his
life.

By the time the time he and his men arrived, along with hundreds of
other firefighters, who had already arrived were in the building helping
evacuate the people from within, they began doing what NYFD does,
saving lives and fighting fires. This was different though. It was of an
enormous scale.

My brother was outside the building when it began to collapse. My
brother in law had been on another fire call up town when it happened
and was also now en route to the WTC. My youngest brother John of the
NYPD was on the Staten Island Ferry on his way into work. He was told
only the night before that it was his turn to come in late as they had
staggered work hours, so he was an hour later than usual. Others in his
unit were killed as the towers crumbled.

As people desperately began to jump off the building as the flames grew
and they couldnt be saved, their bodies began hitting the pavement and
those on the ground with all t he smoke became targets of living
missiles. A priest who hung out at the fire halll my brother in law
works at, was struck by a victim who had jumped to their death, killing
him as well.

As the first building collapsed, an inverted cloud of smoke and ash
flooded the streets and was choking those who were fortunate enough to
escape. Firefighters continued to work pushing through the smoke and
debris as they rushed to save more of the people trying to flee from the
second building before its collapse.

The 2nd buidling came down faster than the first. After the thundering
roar and the inverted plume of smoke that flooded the streets
surrounding the WTC complex, a white ash covered everything. There was a
surreal silence met with a strange tweaking sound like mechanical
birds. The tweaking was shrill and constant. It was the autoresponders
on each of the firemen who were trapped and crushed during the collapse.
Every tweak was sounding off from each of the more than 340 firemen
that died that hour along with numerous civiilians, police and rescue
workers that died so valiantly trying to rescue the victims of the
attack.

More than 50,000 people worked in the WTC and estimates of how many were
killed was initially upwards of 10,000 and miraculously later with
accounts made was reduced to just under 3,000. That means those rescue
workers efforts saved up to 7,000 people that day~!!

How can America or the world forget? How can any elected official even
consider allowing the placement of a mosque near Ground Zero?? How can
moderate muslims continue following allah and their imans who support
acts of terrorism? How can we as a nation elect someone whose national
birthplace is still a mystery? How can more than 400,000 Texans decide
to convert to islam after 9/11 ? How can Dearborn Michigan become like
the new western Mecca? How can a Buffalo muslim radio station owner
enforce Sharia Law and murder his wife because she wanted a divorce? How
can it be that America is such an entertainment oriented society that
our youth have basically spent the last several years becoming more
apathetic and gullible and self serving that they profess not to care
about what is going on in Washington and are convinced they cant make a
difference when Obama was able to rally students and liberals to vote
him in allow him to ascend to power?

While islamic jihadists may be the minority in the muslim religion and
while there are many good decent muslim moderates in the world, their
religion is controlled by hate for Jews, hate for Christians, hate for
the West and hate for all who are not muslim.

This is a war without borders.This is an imperialistic religous war to
conquer the world. It has been waged since Abraham cast out Ishmael and
it will continue to the end of time. Now this imperialistic enemy
officially declared war on America, hitting what is considered to be the
god of America, our financial empire~ thus they hit the WTC – twice -
in 94 and now in 2001.

These jihadists have been doing their terrorism for centuries and are
the ‘religious zealots’ of islam~

They have leighway in how they go about interpreting the laws of islam.
They get validation from imans who bless their efforts in killing the infidels
they encounter.

They are encouraged to use any means necessary to further their agenda
for world domination.That means they will lie cheat steal deceive and do anything
conceivable to defeat those they consider to be enemies.they will say
‘allah is love’ which is not true~ allah is a demonic entity that hates
human life and hates God. They gain ground among those who are agnostic
and those who are against western religions for various reasons. They gain
ground among the apathetic and disillusioned in society, as well as among
the oppressed and the poor.Its not that they care for any of these, but they strive’
to gain temporary allegiances with the disgruntled in their host nations.

The demonic entity known as allah wants to be god and claims to be god and
so those who serve allah experience an soulful sense of satisfaction
when killing the infidel or any who break Sharia law.

They are fully persuaded and are convinced that they are serving allah and
that allah is the god of the universe.They feel justified in what they do.

They are deluded and deceived and most dangerous, since they hold no
value over human life as evidenced by how wantonly they kill even their own
and are willing to die for allah to them, is their ultimate
sacrifice – to which they believe they will receive heavenly rewards.

Jihadists dont fear dying and are motivated to kill as many they
consider to be infidels that that can kill. They have been doing it worldwide for
centuries and focused on 3rd world countries for centuries. They cultivated
relationships with England and the US to educate them in Western ways.
They traded oil leases and development rights and formed alliances with the
rich in many nations so that they could work towards gaining political power.

This is why they can not be totally stopped or reasoned with.
They have many allies underground worldwide.

They will pay lip service publicly only whilethe they dont yet have the power need
to be in full control of the lands they occupy. They are growing and there are over
1.5 billion of them worldwide as they increase their numbers and gain allegiances.

They have learned western ways and while they despise us they are using our own
laws to conquer us from within. They have overrun Europe and England,now that they
have secured presence in the middle east and far east. the methods they are using
are working as they gain political power whereever they go by manipulating and
empowering the poor of each nation to side with them against the ruling powers.

By utilizing socialist reforms in the nations they occupy they set the stage for
their eventual takeover of nations.They will stop at nothing less than world domination!

Once given mutual rights with each nation’s hosting infidels,
they then continue on to effect the sublte changes needed
that will enable them to gain an upper hand, such as using
national laws to gain entry that then gives them the foothold they need
in order to conquer their enemies from within as well as without.

Wars and terrorism are the smokescreen, the roaring lion they use. Then while
a nation’s resources are focused on dealing with the roaring lion, they have
their pride of lions in the grass, infiltrating and herding the public to the
position they want them into so they can strike~

Less than a year before 9/11/01, I was back visiting in NYC at a family
reunion and brought my grown children and grandchildren to the WTC as I
was showing them the city. WE walked through the undergroundWTC mall
from building to building and considered going to the top. It was $13 a
ticket at the time. I had brought them there when they were younger, but
since our group Sept 2000, as no one expected that a year later it
would all be gone.

The aftermath of 9./11 will never escape me nor lessen its impact. How
it has lessened in impact for others is beyond me. This is a war on
terrorism and it has hit our shores, but goes on daily around the world.

I am not against he muslim people.

They are born into their national religion just
as everyone is born into their own.

They dont know any better.Many feel trapped within it since to renounce islam
invites a death sentence through Sharia law.

I am against the demon they serve, who lurks in the shadows
enraging the hearts of the jiahadists to kill through terrorism.

I am not fooled by their Qu’uran that cloaks its words with inuendo and
lies.

It is the true islamic’s goal and purpose in life to dominate the world
and eradicate their opposition, all others that dont become part of them.

They are a parasitic wandering international society and a global threat.

They are dispersed world wide settling in other nations and have been
intermingling with infidel nations of people [converting them to islam] to
gain acceptance and political clout~
They become part of the nations they intend to
conquer but reject everything that nation represents..

They use their own muslim people as sacrifices to effect a shield for
themselves as they plan and plot their moves over the course of generations.
Any of their own people that convert to other religions or just want to
reject islam, become targets of retribution by Sharia Law, they become
like the infidels and are rejected by their families, communities and nation.

Islamic jihadits will destroy and do kill their own just as fast as
they kill those they consider infidels, any who oppose them.

They use their ‘moderate’ members, as a buffer to gain acceptance while the
ones in control, the jihadists are encouraged and sponsored by their
imans, who run the mosques and collect the donated money from the
moderates in order to fund more terrorism.

So to put a mosque up at or near Ground Zero is, in itself another
attack on the WTC~ and the USA!

Communities where they propagate, they increase in population and then
form gangs that keep pushing others out of the community so that they
can control the section of each city or town they occupy. They claim the
area and put up a mosque~ which becomes their headquarters and a symbol
of their victory over those they consider to be their enemies.

Anyone who is not one of them, is an enemy.
Anyone that doesnt obey Sharia Law is an enemy .
Anyone who is not one of them is in danger.

Now as we approach 9/11/11 , 9 years after their devoted jihadists
sacrificed their lives to allah and blew up the WTC, Pentagon and were
responsible for Flight 93 being shot down, have declared victory over
the US since while we were occupied focusing on the wars in Iraq &
Afghanistan, they have been busy funding propaganda within the US ,
brainwashing youth and liberals, put a blood muslim into the Presidency
who is lobbying for the muslim cause, by socializing America and
bankrupting the government.

We have a chance to save America and need to beat them at their own
game.

We need to clean up our own government~!
We need representatives in office that will protect our national interests and
our free American lifestyle.
Too long corruption has been rampant in government.Now it threatens
our very way of life in America and the US as a nation is in peril of being
financially ruined and forced into socialism which will break our standing
in the world and reduce us to a 3rd world power. Once this happens America
will no longer be the home of the free, but be subjugated by the islamic world.

We need to educate and wake up America and vote out all those who
are influenced by their islamic roots or deceived by the message of
islam into being complacent and letting islam’s foothold to grow here in
America, as they plan on populating and gaining footholds in politics
and counting on American apathy to vote them into office and turn
America into a socialist regime, which they then can introduce Sharia
Law to become the new law in America and worldwide.

America is still great, but the current government is weakening us as a nation.
We need to instill a sense of patriotism in our youth and elect officials that will
serve the people and ideals that America was founded on.

We need to end apathy and get involved in saving our own nation from the
enemies now within our borders. Our laws should first and foremost protect
our nation and our way of life and not become the enablements for foreign
powers to come in and take over and destroy our way of life.

America may not be perfect but it is the best nation on earth and now is
a target of those who hate us and are jealous of us and of the God we choose
to serve. Islam hates the Christian, the Jew, along with all other religions and
lifestyles. They kill those they consider to be less moral than they hypocritically
claim to be. Its happening in Europe and now its infiltrating our borders.

America needs to wake up. We need politicians like Sarah Palin who are
intelligent , sensible and not easily fooled.

Hi~

Seems like summer is finally here. Time to stop hibernating and go out and do some things.I have been in most of the winter and spring, so began to venture out on little projects.

Well last week on Father’s Day,  I had a sign to paint at a church in Addison, I worked til late Sunday night.  When I headed home, Kyle & I  had picked up some groceries, but as my arms were aching from painting upright, Kyle put the groceries away for me. Then hearing a hiss from inside the fridge, called me into the kitchen and sure enough the freon was escaping and the fridge died.

I spent the next 2 days contacting every ad within 150  miles to locate another fridge before the food all went bad and by Tuesday night we had a new ‘used’ fridge – bigger and better than the one we lost. I had questioned every fridge owner about their fridge for sale and had one lined up that worked good but because it was over 20 years old, the lady only wanted $60. I wanted to get that one but my son didnt, as he said it was too old and my friend said he agreed. Well there was another friend that knew someone in Corning selling one for $350 [ indicating it had to be good, right?] but that they were willing to drop the price to $250 since we were in a bind. I never got to ask any questions about it other than it was big – at least 25 cubic feet, maybe 27~

We got there , paid and loaded the truck and headed home. The boys got some friends to take off the doors to get it into the house. Did I say, it is a big fridge? Well they get it in and put together and hooked up- nice and cold works great~! only thing I noticed from the labelling on back was that it was old – perhaps 20 years like the $60 one I had wanted to get…oh well as long as it works, right? .. afterall its now a done deal..

At least we were able to save most of our groceries and I transferred them into the new fridge.Most of the food was okay still. That which thawed too much,  we cooked and gave to the dogs, so losses were minimal.

Only catch with the new fridge, we found out is to not touch it, if your hands or feet are wet…you’ll get a good jolt as James found out first, several times already…no one believed him at first. 

We checked the ground, looked okay, but still  its a shocking experience, that both Kyle & I found out as well. James won’t touch it now without holding something rubber.  I think I can maybe get a wire to put onto a screw on the back and maybe attach it to a nail on the wall or something like that to ground  it. I will research a bit first to see how to go about it. I will try later this week…[with it unplugged of course]

So tonight I planned on going back to that church to finish up edging the sign.
I never should have left the house~ jus one of those days~ As evening approached, I decided to just go and get it done.

I got up & got ready and left to go finish the sign. I only had to trim off some letters, backwards on glass.  It should have taken 1-2 hours tops.

I stopped at Walmart, 4.5 miles away from home and on the way, got a paint pen and an ‘exacto knife’ to trim the edges of the letters I already painted..

The pastor had called earlier and  said it looked good as it was, but I am a bit of a perfectionist. I said I would go today and finish touching it up.

So I pull out of Walmart making a right hand turn my subaru stalled~ first time ever.

I coast it to straighten out on the side of the road but was still about 2.5 ft from the curb, so first I put on my hazards & then open the hood.. go back try a few times, cranked like it wanted to go, but a new strange ‘whine’ like metal on metal or a ‘thirsty gear’ somewhere… so I stop as to not overdo the starter…wait a few then try again….wait a few longer and try again….battery strong, starter okay, but this obnoxious whine and almost grind sound like a flywheel or something, so I stopped trying,  as it was obvious it wasnt going to get better by my wishful thinking…

Fun , I am 56  & fat!! No tarzans out there to help this Jane~!!…. so I start to put it in neutral gear and steer it to the side pushing towards the next driveway…another church lot….not the one I was heading for… but they had a lot so in I pushed the car. 

2 young guys stopped and helped push it the last 12 feet, but part of me wondered if they were pulling instead of pushing as it seemed heavier for some reason.[slightly uphill] I turned the wheel to diagonally parked and stopped. I tried to turn the motor again, to see if they could identify the strange sound, but it mystified them as well, so they let me borrow their cell phone to call home.

My son was home the whole time, but both my phones are in my room and unless he is using them, doesnt hear them ring. So I called his cell, but it was turned off.

The guys were on their way to work, in the opposite direction, so the one said he’d come back after dropping the other guy off and if I was still there, he would give me a ride home.

After they left, I tried to check it out further and noticed how narrow the path was coming into the driveway and that my car was still blocking it too much, so I put it in gear and began pushing and straightened it out.

I had to push it nearly 20 ft til it was lined up with the edge of the driveway lot, out of the way of the Sunday church goers, expected in the morning. I wrote a note stating it broke down & I had to push it there to get it off the road and would be back to get it .

I locked it up covered the things in my back deck and  began to walk. I am not a good walker. I lean on shopping carts when walking so this was going to be fun.[not]

I got about a block away already my back was aching and I was huffing, so I put out my thumb to hitch…cant be that hard right? …4 passing cars later, I started to make goals of the next set of lights in the distance and began my journey.

Now I knew if I could get to the end of my road, that someone would stop, as there are no street lights, but bear , deer & coyotees, so anyone seeing anyone walk, usually will stop and offer a ride,  but that was nearly 2 miles away.

I gave up on putting my thumb out, just no way anyone was going to pick up a fat lady after dark —- you know how dangerous they can be~!

So I prayed…. I asked God to send someone to give me a ride…. a few minutes later, a truck stopped and pulled up beside  me and it was one of my sons friends with  2 kids and another friends girl ,giving them a home, in the opposite direction and out at a time they usually arent out~!! Now that was an answer to prayer~!!!

He didnt have time to check out my car, which was about a whopping 1/2 mile away…after all my walking~!!! but said he would come to tow it if I get a tow dolly. I thanked him for the ride home, but said that I would call my car insurance as it covers towing…

Timing is everything…My mechanic & good friend, Jerry who also does my towing, just left yesterday for 10 day vacation in South Carolina…It was also his church, I was going to paint.I know if he was still home, he would have my car in the shop already.

Figures, now I will have to get someone else to tow it but wait til he gets back to get it fixed.

Well I haven’t driven my van in months, since my sons said something is grinding in that too.. Maybe I will just stay home the next 2 wks til my mechanic comes back…

My back is now aching.Not sure if it was from pushing the car as much as I think it was more from walking.  I am still a bit hot and a little cranky, but glad to be back home. Good thing it happened nearer to home than not. Since it died while driving, it could have happened on the highway or up in Addison! That would have compounded the problem. Better that it broke down nearer to home.

The phone just rang and one of those nice guys, who tried to help earlier, called me to see if I got home safely. My number was on his caller id from when he let me call home . He said had I not answered, he would have told my son what had happened. Very nice of him to follow up like that~!!

Well for now,I just took a few pills and cranked up the AC to try and cool down and let my heart relax after all the cardio it got tonight .  Great prelude to summer.. Glad it didnt happen on my way out west~ The more I think about it I think it may be my serpentine belt as I was going to get it changed. I will have to look in daylight to see for sure. I have a spare in back of my car. If that is all I should be able to get my son’s friend Richard to put it on.Otherwise I will have it towed to Jerry’s so it can be one of his first jobs when he gets back from SC.

Guess it just gives me another excuse to stay home. I do mostly anyhow, as I am always online :)

:)

Ave

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I am now having Zazzle use some of my artworks to print on clothing and coffee  mugs and a whole lot more… It looks pretty good~ I  want to buy my own coffee mugs~ !

Unfortunately,when someone confronts you after you have done something in the Spirit of God’s calling on your life and praises you with “Oh my God you’re so annointed”, it can be that very attitude in well meaning people, who think they are encouraging you, that actually are setting you up for a spiritual attack!

If God uses you specifically on occassions to minister any of His gifts, such as healing, people who misunderstand the way God uses you/us tend to want to label you/us as healers or prophets etc ,which while it is true that God has worked through some of us that such statements can begin a personal spiritual battle within, targetting us with a ‘spirit of religion’,or a ‘spirit of pride’, or ‘spirit of elitism’ and ‘others’ that can become the ‘fly in the ointment’ to our ministry over time.

Many men of God have at times been given gifts and used to do marvelous things only to later on become victims of hero worship and some feel inwardly isolated or that they begin to feel pressures to have to perform for others even when the annointing is not upon them.It can place a heavy yoke on them.

Although God does not repent of His gifts, He has mercy on whom He has mercy and there are times when a gift is used that is specific for a situation and yet some then misconstrue it and attempt to make a method or formula to cause the ‘gift’ to be operated on demand, which can and often leads to ‘showmanship’ and what can turn into a ‘sideshow act’.

I have seen men and women of God who when they first started out and gained some notoriety for specific gifts bestowed on them or miracles they have received, go on to later on present ‘stale manna’ in place of what God had done for them maybe decades earlier.

I have also on specific occasions been used by God to do some marvelous things to others on His behalf yet not something to be repeated on any grandscale levels.

Even men like Benny Hinn who said many years ago that if he could he would walk into hospitals and heal the sick, but he knew that God didnt always bestow action of the gift of healing simply at a man’s will or man’s desire.

He set out in growing worship services and during that worship it was asked that the Holy Spirit come upon them and sometimes did. Later his ministry grew and things changed.People came from all around expecting to be healed .Some were, some weren’t.

Betty Baxter was miraculously healed by Jesus as a child and had a great testimony of how Jesus visited her often only to later on when her ministry became more like a travelling side show where people expected a miracle every time she spoke, but again God doesnt work like that.

We are not to become like some Gehazzi’s, seeking reward from those who received the gift’s benefit such as healing as did Naaman the leper who willingly gave good to Gehazzi for what the prophet did. He receieved a curse in exchange for that blessing.For our actions here on earth as we obey the calling of the Holy Spirit, we are not to seek a share of the profit, which would become a stumbling block to many who start out to sincerely serve God.

People often want to give to someone they see as really operating in the gifts of the Spirit,and want to elevate such a person, holding them in high esteem, which often causes oppressive spirits to speak thoughts of self rigthteousness, elitism,grandiosity,false witness,pride,religion,self validation,defensiveness,evasiveness,spirit of doubt ,spirits of revelry,deceits,depression,despair,idolatry and so on that can actually separate us when others begin to say things like ‘you are so annointed’.

It is only in true humbleness before God and meakness before both God and man, balanced by being bold in the spirit before the Lord, like the apostle Paul, who was strong in the faith and not afraid to speak his mind~ yet he reminded whomever he was confronted with, that it was Jesus, His Holy Spirit that was at work through him and that he of himself was nothing without Christ.

Likewise we too must not set ourselves up through a sense of emabarrassment, when receiving such accolades, but with thanksgiving in our hearts, that the Lord chose to operate through us, to keep our own spiritual house swept clean and to be like Samuel the boy, sitting and waiting to hear from the Lord~ and to speak only what the Lord has given us to say.

“Speak Lord,your servant listens~!”

We can not put God into a box and pull Him out when others expect us to perform, nor when we seek a private interpretation for ourselves or someone else.

Paul had a thorn in his side,God’s grace was sufficient for him, as we all who serve the Lord also have that spiritual or physical thorn in our flesh, there to remind us of who we are and not attempt to use the gifts of God which were made manifest in us for our own personal gain.

Like Daniel operated in humility and his trust in the Lord, or Esther when she confronted the King, or even when Jesus was before Herod, who demanded him to perform ‘tricks’, we are His servants and are to perform as He did and then can do the things He did.

When He wants to speak through us, when we keep our vessels clean and our inward man is right before God, we can be prepared in our hearts to do His works purely and not as hirelings who are rewarded for such here on earth.

The Lord speaks through whomever He will, even the rocks would cry out, if He commanded or even speak through Baalam’s donkey, we need to teach others how God is ministering through us and how they too should prepare themselves to become vessels fit for honor before God and not just men.

Jesus said His burden was light and so it should be for us.

When someone tells me that I am so annointed, I can only reply that it isn’t me, but God choosing to work through me as being receptive and waiting on the Lord, not by anything I am or do, but by what He is, when He chooses to work through me.

The wind blows where it wills and you can hear the sound of it,so it is with everyone who walks in the Spirit of God and not walking in the spirits of their own self worth or pride or any other vanity that they do.
GBU~!
Ave

UPDATE : BEFORE READING THIS , PLEASE NOTE THAT CAT IS NOW WELL & LIVES AT MY DAUGHTERS TO ENSURE NEVER CATCHING FLEAS AGAIN.
WE HOWEVER STILL HAD THE WHITE CAT & THIS YEAR [2011] SHE CONTRACTED FLEAS SO WE BOUGHT THE HARTZ ULTRA GUARD PLUS Collar at Walmart and it slowly killed her over the course of a month. I thought she was getting a urinary tract infection so was going to bring her to the Vet, but then by her behavior I remembered what happened to other people cats from drops & collars.

By the time we removed the collar and were going to bring her to the Vet she died.

So here we go:

It’s flea and tick season, again.

My dogs already got fleas and brought some into the house. 2 of my son’s cats also got out and caught some. Last but not least MY cat, who has never been outside, got some too~

My cat , who never goes out, caught the fleas despite her relatively new flea collar and was itching terribly to get them off and spreading them as she went from room to room.

I found her on top of my bed and saw 3-4 fleas hop off so I caught and killed them immediately.It was the 30th, so I had one more day to wait for my check so  to buy her another flea collar.

Last  month I picked up a single dose tube of Sargents Cat Flea drops at a discount store in Big Flats NY to try on my cats, but had just put flea collars on each of them, so didnt use the drops right away. 

I also have a 3 pack at home of Hartz for the dogs, but my son said he didnt want to use them as his vet had some sort of pill he wanted to get for his pups & dogs as we have 7 and I planned on treating them all at the same time.

Now we will never use any flea drops ever again. They are not safe! All the over the counter {OTC} remedies by Sargent, Hartz, Bansect &  smaller brands, use insecticides that poison the pet  while killing the fleas. Pets may become lathargic or irritable, vomit or shed fur or scratch causing sores or fur loss. While the majority of animals do not die from this slow poisoning, it shortens their lifespan, as it enters their sebaceous glands & actually causes them continual pain til the stuff wears off~

Vets have safer brands~ Advantage, Frontline, Advantix – The ones for cats is based differently than the ingredients for dogs. Dog Flea Drops are lethal for cats & also for sensitive dogs. Problem is you cant judge how sensitive the dog will be.  Last year a healthy Labrador Retriever had a flea bath with Sargents for dogs~ Over the next several days he lost his appetite and strength & though the  pet owner took him to the Vet, all they could do was watch the poor dog slowly die as the poison in the bath destroyed him from the inside out~

The Government doesnt set the regulations good enough to protect our pets. Sargents Customer Service told me they need the Vat #s of the bad drops since they ‘outsource’ them abroad and sometimes get a bad vat~!!! Some vats can be too strong and thus more lethal.

Sargents asked me to send in my Vet Bills as though they were going to reimburse me but all they did was weigh out their liability since I told them the tube was discarded at the Vet’s so I couldnt return the carton or tube.  I did let them know which store I got it from and also contacted the store to see if any more from that vat were there, but unfortunately they sold them all.

Many owners dont even associate their pets sudden illnesses with the application of these products since often the reactions slowly start and take days or even weeks til the animal dies. In my cat’s case however, the reaction was severe & life threatening withing 2 hours~

 They can and do kill pets~they aren’t just repellents, they are poison!

They enter the fur and go into the sebaceous glands of the animal and that is how they get rid of the fleas but they also affect the animal’s central nervous system! Any animal can have a reaction at any time too .

So even if you used it before and didnt notice any harm, doesnt mean it isnt having an accumulative effect on your pet and the very next dose used could be the lethal one~!

Meanwhile at the time I didn’t know how devastating Flea drops and other Flea products are . I was under the impression that the same medicine[which I now know is a poison] worked the same for cats and dogs as they get the same fleas.

I thought the medicine was only toxic to the bugs and not the pets! Many people are under the same assumption I was. It is almost kinder to shoot the pet than to put Sargents or Hartz onto them making them suffer~[not really shooting, but by example its quicker than letting these supposedly safe flea products on them that cause pain , suffering & even death in many animals]

I thought they were sold based on size of the animal, so that smaller doses were for cats and puppies and larger doses were for dogs. I thought when my cat reacted that I may have used the dog tube by mistake, but later my son checked all the tubes in the draw and the Hartz dog ones were unopened, so he told me that I did in fact use the cat drops…. Regardless, both are toxic to animals~!!

I believed that was the only difference was volume of drops to be applied, but even ones designated for larger dogs, can be quickly lethal to puppies and smaller breeds of  dogs.

I didnt know that some dog doses even have something different in them that the dog’s liver is supposed to be able to process but that the cat’s liver can not process.

So why sell toxic pet products?? 

PROFIT~! SARGENTS & HARTZ ARE THE BIGGEST CULPRITS~!

 I later learned about this at the Vet’s when it was already too late!

So, on that night, I then had this single dose tube for the cats,  but since we have 3 cats,initially I was waiting to get more of the drops to treat them with at the same time, since their flea collars weren’t as effective as they should have been as they each were scratching with fleas~ I DIVIDED A SINGLE DOSE TUBE FOR 1 CAT AND PUT JUST 2 DROPS ON EACH OF OUR 3 CATS….SO if anything it should have been less effective, but never lethal~

 Two of my son’s  cats had recently gotten outside and so they too, were  bringing in fleas, even though they had on relatively new flea collars! That was why I was going to try  the flea drops.

My cat however was  never outside, but between the traffic of the puppies being taken out for ‘walks’ and the other two cats having gotten out, my little cat wasnt immune and her collar obviously wasnt working either.

She was scratching nonstop and over the last few weeks was  losing fur down on her back by her tail. Her coat had lost its luster.

I told my son that I was going to make an appt to get her  neutered this month so she too could start going out like the others.

I thought her sudden hair loss was from some displacement activity as she goes into ‘heat’ so often which was why I didnt let her out either as I didnt want her to get pregnant.

It didnt occur to me that the hair loss was from from the Bansect flea collar that  I put on her just  over a month ago and yet there were fleas on her anyway so what good was that collar doing? It was not keeping the fleas off and so I thought I had to try something else.

I then decided to divide the one tube I had,   up over the 3 cats and would just get more in the morning.  [so I thought]

The other 2 cats each got a few drops each as they were the ones going out the most.

Then I squeezed the last 2 drops of the open flea drop tube medication  and  put them on my cat’s neck, thinking it couldn’t hurt using so little and hoping it would  bring her some relief, if even  for just the night. 

2-3 hours later she was writhing in pain seizing and convulsing, foaming at the mouth!

I went to pick her up, she bolted and ran into
things crashing her body all over the house and ran into the
bathroom.

My son  caught her and  placed her into a cage , while I  began calling vets in our area.

Our regular vet was out of town and it was night.

Another Vet called back and arranged for his Vet tech to meet us at his office and she began the treatment to try to and save my poor little cat.

 She cut off the Bansect  flea collar and said she was going to give her a bath in Dawn Dishwashing detergent, to remove any residue of the flea drops. I  gave her the empty Sargents Cat Flea Drops tube, in case she needed it for determining what antidote to give or to call their company. I didnt know I should have kept the tube for proof of what it did to  my cat~!!

 She said the standard proceedure was  to put an IV  for fluids in her [to prevent dehydration] and give her  a variety of meds to stop the seizures [ methocarbomal & valium & 1 other med]  and whatever else the Vet may determine as necessary and would call us the next day.

We left and went home worried as she looked like she was going to die.

She remained in the animal hospital 2 days on the  IV for 1 day and then observation & then allowed to come home to recover.

We are lucky since many pets die  from over the counter flea remedies, since the government doesnt properly regulate them.

Many owners don’t even know that these flea products can do what happened to her. My son said she looked like she had rabies with all the convulsing and foaming at the mouth~

 The Vet  bill however was $485 payable immediately with no payment plan available! I live on disability but it was the beginning of the month, so I hadnt yet paid my bills and diverted the money to paying the Vet.

We were very grateful that they saved her ,but unprepared for such a large bill, which forced  me to stay home all summer as I couldnt re-register my car til August as I had to catch up on my own rent & household bills first.

These poisons used in pet care products should be illegal.Anyone who has had a similar experience should blog about it, write to their Congressman & Senators as well as their State Representative’s offices ~! The more people who report these  reactions will eventually force the government to look into it and ban the cheap  toxic ingredients that the manufacturers are still ‘legally’ allowed to use. Sargents claimed that only 1 in a 1000 animals have the reaction, but there is no way to prove that since many owners are unaware that it is the flea products making their animals sick~!!

Since they are sold over the counter everywhere, Hartz and Sargents & Bansect are well  known brands,  many  people assume them to be safe but they aren’t~They are all toxic~!!

They use pesticide based poisons in  their ingredients because it is cheaper to make and they make a great profit on them, but they could use safer ingredients that will work, but corporate greed prevents them.

Sargents Customer Service Representative said to me on the phone ’only’ 1:10,000 die, but after reading so many horror stories of adverse reactions in pets and the lengths and expense owners have to go through to save their pets, I bet the fatality rate is much higher. Other victims agree.

I  joined HartzVictims Org and am now  joining with other organizations in making other pet owners aware of the dangers of flea drops on cats.

No cat or dog should have to suffer this way!

Its hard to believe that only using 2 drops  was so devastating to my cat!

 Worse now is all the stories I am reading online of other pets dying terrible deaths from owners not only using  flea drops, but flea shampoos and even flea collars cause illness , allergic reactions and death.

 I will not put another  Flea Collar  on any of my pets  ever again as sure enough the spot near her tail is already starting to grow new fur and her coat is softer again- that fast! – only a few days~!

So the flea collar was causing her fur to fall out since she was a kitten, but it didnt seem like the collars fault to me since the fur came out at the base of her tail  and not around the collar area, because the poisons used in them enter the sebaceous glands just like the flea drops do and can cause hair loss anywhere on the pet’s body.

Since she didnt lose fur around her neck I didnt associate the fur loss to the flea collar.

The Vet recommendes Advantix Flea Drops and so treated her before she was discharged from the hospital. Vet offices sell the safest products, Frontline, Advantage  & Advantix and can tell you which one is right for your pet~ It will cost a few dollars more, but save your pet alot of misery  & maybe save their life. It will also save you a fortune on Vet bills should your pet have a violent reaction.

She said Advantix and Frontline are the only ones they feel are ‘ safe enough’  for animals and that none of the over the counter Hartz or Sargents products are safe! She said that  most Vets already know this and do tell their patients but many people assume that all pet products sold are safe, when in fact they are not.

Why then are they still allowed to sell them and use the ingredients that prove time and time again to be so dangerous to pets? Not enough complaints have been filed with our politicians to cause them to do anything about it~!!  WE all need to let them know that this is not acceptable  & these products need to have their toxins removed from their products and be replaced with the safer ones.

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I didn’t know better but should have~ I picked up a single dose tube of Sargents Flea Drops .They were placed in a drawer that we keep pet products in. WE also had a 3 pack of Hartz Mountain that we were saving to use in August when more fleas are out around  here  since we already put new flea collars on each of our cats and dogs, but on that night my small grey cat started scratching like mad and even with the 3  week old flea collar,fleas were popping off her and onto the bedspread. I caught and killed those fleas and then went to the pet drawer and took out the already opened white tube  of drops and though I knew it was a single dose, I put only 2 drops on back of her neck and then ontop the other 2 cats thinking it would help if the flea collars weren’t.

I had no clue that using so little could do so much harm! Had I used a whole tube she would have died for sure.

 Well, I had also used them on the other cats so there were a couple of drops  for each  one and  I  squeezed out the last 2 drops to put them on the back  of  my little grey cat’s neck.

I could not read any of the microscopic fine print on the card anyway, as   the vial was attached to as it was too blurry for my eyes but thought it might not be enough so planned on buying more the next day. The card it came on had already been discarded.

IF YOU USE ANY FLEA PRODUCTS ON YOUR PET, SAVE THE WRAPPING AND RECEIPT IN CASE YOUR PET HAS A REACTION!THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE WILL HELP YOU AND POSSIBLY PAY YOUR VET BILLS~!!!

I was only looking to give her some relief as her flea collar just didnt seem to work well enough. I assumed they were the small dog/puppy drops but also honestly didnt think there would have been much of a difference either way, since alot of meds  like worm meds have similar ingredients just larger amounts for dogs.

Still I knew my cat was about 6 lbs and she was scratching terribly from the fleas that the dogs & other 2 cats  brought into the house had  found their way to her.

She had been extremely itchy & when sitting on my bed several fleas had popped on my bedspread, so I caught & killed them quickly  and then looked for that open tube of  flea poison for her as I had already had put some on the other 2 cats since they were the ones going outside. I was only able to squeeze out 2 drops on my finger and rubbed them on the back of her head.

 3 hours later she suddenly was convulsing and writhing, foaming at the mouth and bursting into fits running and crashing into things. My son saw her first and called me saying he thought she had rabies .

My son caught her when she ran into a bathroom closet & we caged her. I told  him since she had never been outdoors that it was  impossible for her to have rabies & that she had a rabies shot last year anyway.

I said it had to  have something to do with the flea drops I used on her, so I began looking up online symptoms and found that the drops could cause those symptoms. 

We began calling vets , all closed ~ but the one located at Animal Crackers former building outside of Wellsboro was familiar with flea drop poisoning, so the Vet told us to come right down and a Vet Tech, Hillary met us there, took our cat and began treatment immediately.

There is a different flea killing ingredient in dog flea drops than in cat flea drops which when used on cats attacks their liver and central nervous system~ highly toxic to cats~but some are also toxic to dogs ! I wasn’t sure which one I had used as I had a tube for the puppies too and both were out of the cartons so I brought the tube that  I  used  and gave it to the tech so that it might help in diagnosing what meds to give her.

 So it isn’t size and weight issue, its an actual chemical poison used in flea drops that is the issue and my cat has almost died from it.Now I see dogs too are dying from it.

I just called the vet and she is still alive and may recover thankfully. She is still being treated. It will be a very expensive lesson on my part and is extremely traumatic and life threatening for my poor cat as she is less than 2 years old and trusted me to take good care of her!

Treatment includes bathing off all the residue of the drops immediately with a soap based shampoo.

Intravenous fluids are important to stop the dehydration and to admininster muscle relaxers since the poison attacks the cat’s central nervous system.

Other meds including sedatives and pain relief are also needed.

Although some cats/dogs can survive this poisoning , some owners decide to ‘ride it out’ without veterinary care, the cat/dog will most likely die~ the pain involved as well as the involuntary writhing and convulsing is extremely painful to the pet –

SO VETERINARY CARE IS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY~

DON’T WAIT IT OUT~Your pet is in excrutiating pain,convulsing,seizing,vomiting and running into things~!!

THERE IS NO HOME REMEDY TO SAVE YOUR PET~

YOU HAVE TO SEEK VETERINARY HELP IF YOU WISH TO SAVE YOUR PET~!

So an ignorant but well meaning action on my part, I caused my dear little cat to suffer horribly~ I called the vet today and she is responding to treatment since I got her there right away~ and she might be able to come home tomorrow~Thank God~! I didnt want her to die.

So I may be late with my rent this month, as the treatment is expensive, I am sure, as I have not received the billing yet~and will have to of course, pay for my mistake before bringing my cat home.

Included below is articles I found today, that explain what this poison does to cats~[since my cat was the one affected] so be aware that  Flea Drops instructions have to be carefully followed but looking for signs of a reaction is very important as the toxins build up in the animal and may work  one time but the next time could be the amount needed to be toxic.

Also it isnt merely a marketing issue that they mark some cards for puppies, dogs or cats as there can be other ingredient strengths that are not safe [none are actually 'safe'] or that just because something is safe  on dogs or other animals doesnt make it safe for cats or puppies !! I just saw a video of a full grown labrador retriever dying 3 days after a flea bath~!!

I am so sorry that I put my poor cat through this and will always look to check safety of a product in the future.My Vet says none of the over the counter flea products are safe and since many outsource to other countries that they may even have some mixtures stronger than others so they can not be trusted~

Now why these flea drop companies do put a some small warnings like do not use on cats -[if you can find the warnings hidden in the fine print] it should of instead been emphatic “WILL KILL CATS“  Or Dogs~!

Or  better Warning  “Just  ONE DROP CAN KILL  YOUR  PET ” would have been more to the point- STRONGER WARNING LABELS ARE NEEDED~

Naturally then no one would buy them~! So they hide the danger in how they word things on their packaging , so most people assume they’re safe.

The Vet  & also blogs show this is  a common mistake many pet owners make. I am not the first fool to do this~

Safety of Flea Drops
As mentioned above because topical flea treatments utilize modern drugs targeting insect nervous systems or growth hormones they are much safer for your pet than older flea poisons, or so they claim!

There are endless amounts of  cases of side-effects but they are few and far between and usually extremely mild.

The most common form of side effect is an allergy to the non-active components in the flea drops. These are usually very mild vomiting or temporary hair loss at the site of administering the product. Animals with such allergies are obviously better treated with a different form of flea control in future.

The widespread fear of flea drops comes primarily from incorrect use of the products, according to those selling them, but the toxins used can affect each animal differntly so they should be banned.

For example giving a small animal a dose specified for a much larger one, or even more dangerous, giving dog medicine to a cat, but they dont know what to say to the person who used the medicine according to directions and the animal still dies~

 Cat’s are highly sensitive to one ingredient often used in dog flea control products so should never be given anything other than a cat flea treatment, but then again ones designated for cats specifically still can kill cats.Likewise ones made specifically for dogs are still killing dogs ~ so there is something else the manufacturer is not doing right. It’s easier for them to blame the grieving pet owner and try to confuse them by saying they had to be the ones who did something wrong, when a pet owner can not always recognize the signs of an allergic reaction or of a toxic reaction.

For some more information about your cat flea treatment click on the link.

 Some ingredients are meant to render female fleas unable to lay viable eggs. If an insect is affected it is unable to reproduce so drug-resistant offspring should not be a problem, according to those manufacturing it, but this ingredient also enters a cat and dogs sebaceous glands through the skin, so as a poison will have some sort  of accumulative effect and while one dog or cat may be more resisitant to side effects another one may not as is the case in all those who have reactions and all those who die from the flea products.

Longer Lasting Flea Control
With most flea killing products there is also opportunity for a residual effect. Because flea drops are actually absorbed in the animal’s oil gland network the active ingredients remain at the surface of the skin for a relatively long time.

All the leading topical cat flea treatments will remain effective for at least a month. In practice some such as Frontline will actually carry on providing complete flea protection for six weeks and while Frontline and Advantage are more expensive to use, they are safer than Hartz or Sargents, since they use cheaper ingredients which are more dangerous.

Safety of Flea Drops
As mentioned above because topical flea treatments utilise modern drugs targeting insect nervous system or growth hormones they are much safer for you pet than older flea poisons.

There are cases of side-effects but they are few and far between and usually extremely mild to severe and to fatalities that often go unreported.

 The most common form of side effect is ‘said to be an allergy’ to the non-active components in the flea drops, but some reactions are to the toxins in them and not allergic but actually  lethal to many pets.

Manufacturers dont want the bad publicity so sometimes pay off victims as it is still cheaper than changing their product ingredients to something safer.

The manufacturers say reactions are usually very mild vomiting or temporary hair loss at the site of administering the product, as they downplay the danger of their products  and exploit the owners need to be rid of the fleas.

 Animals with such ‘allergies’, they will concede,  are obviously better treated with a different form of flea control in future, should the owner be lucky enough to recognizze the milder reactions.Or if the pet survives ~

They claim that the  widespread fear of flea drops comes primarily from incorrect use of the products according to the manufacturers, but thats a lie since  many die from correct usage as well !

 For example giving a small animal a dose specified for a much larger one, or even more dangerous, giving dog medicine to a cat, are their obvious arguments , but what about the larger dogs who die suddenly from accurate dosing? What chances do the smaller dogs and cats have when big dogs also die from it?

How many pet owners who are not doctors, vets or scientists, rely on and  trust the manufacturers to supply a safe effective product?

It is already known and admitted that cats are highly sensitive to an ingredient often used in dog flea control products so should never be given anything other than a cat flea treatment, but they are also sensitive to other ingredients and so there is still a problem with keeping these products available for public use.

 Ingredients that are toxic to animals should not be used~!There are many nontoxic ingredients available but Hartz & Sargents are too greedy to use them and rather let pets die.

Toxic ingredients need to be banned and made illegal.

They should be removed from the shelves of stores.

For more information about your cat flea treatment click on the link which has some info but may be jaded by the special interest groups .

I wish I read this  and other articles before applying those drops to my cat~! I never would have used them at all and now will only use what the Vet recommends~

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/understanding-topical-cat-flea-treatments.html

Here is another case & people also trying to raise awareness:

http://www.hartzvictims.org/2004/07/27/flea-medicine-poisoning/

Symptoms  of one ingredient in many flea drop remedies: http://pethealth101.com/poison/PoisonSigns&Symptoms.shtml

Permethrin poisoning Cats is another one for example: http://www.petalia.com.au/templates/storytemplate_process.cfm?specie=Cats&story_no=2147&pafid=2349

Flea poison ingredient for dogs is different than for cats but both can still kill your pets~ http://www.nearlydrferox.blogging4life.com/?p=436

Cat owners accidentally poisoning their cats ~!http://www.cats.com.au/articles/486/catownerspoisoningtheirpets.shtml

while many products do say not to use on cats, many owners assume the ingredients to kill the fleas wont kill their cats but that it is merely stronger medicine, so think applying smaller amounts would be safe ~ when in fact it isnt safe and can often be deadly~

BEFORE YOU CAN FIND A VET : IMMEDIATE FIRST AID FOR CATS and Dogs is to wash them thoroughly with Dawn dishwashing detergent to remove the oily base holding the poison in the fur and on the skin of the animal [not to be instead of vet care ,only if a vet is unavailable]http://www.bigcatrescue.org/poisons.htm

Even some flea collars can kill your cat~! http://www.getipm.com/articles/letters/flea-collar.htm

Manufacturers need to stop using ingredients that are toxic to animals and meanwhile make stronger stated warnings on their products and not simple benign statements such as ‘DO NOT USE ON CATS’ – because buyers are not aware of how deadly these products are  and assume they are safe since they are sold over the counter in supermakets and pet stores.

My cat is expected to recover. The bill is going to be very high and I can not afford it , living myself on disability~  All I can do is hope to raise awareness to prevent this from happening to others.

Ave Hurley

Http://AveHurleyIllustrations.ning.com

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