Weekend Update!

[skwashy]

So, kayaking in Elkhorn Slough. I stayed ashore with the dog and we walked around and collected burrs in our paws and failed to poop for almost a whole day. We were actually staying in Capitola, which is a pretty little resort town with its share of tiny quaint shoppies, in a hotel that had a miniature fenced porch for each ground-floor room and a

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[gothchick_marie]

I don't believe in purple-striped jellyfish.

[skwashy]

Heathen girl.

[gothchick_marie]

Photoshopped!

[skwashy]

"Parasites are common in and on raccoons. Fleas are common on urban raccoons, ticks on wild ones. At this age, they are best picked off with tweezers and dropped into a jar of rubbing alcohol (the tick that is). Don’t squish ticks - they carry nasty diseases. Rubbing a pledget of cotton moistened with puppy/kitten flea spray (pyrethrins w/ pipronyl butoxide) will kill or immobilize fleas but it won’t have much effect on ticks. When you grasp a tick to pluck it off with tweezers, grasp the bleb of skin just ahead of the tick and the whole thing will come out. That bit of tissue will die anyway, and grasping a tick by its abdomen simply injects all the toxins and infections the ticks carry into the baby. I worm the baby with pyrantel pamoate, orally at 11mg/kg (5mg/pound) and do this every 3 days for approximately 3 weeks and then monthly. Pyrantel pamoate is very low in toxicity because it is not absorbed from the intestine."

GROSS GROSS GROSS GROSS!