Climate change could send venomous snakes slithering north

Toronto Star ^ | March 7, 2016 | By Raveena Aulakh

[Twinkie]

I’ve got to be sure you get this message! PLEASE REPLY!
FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH is the ONLY kind us
humans, or animals should consume!! POOL GRADE is purely
POISONOUS!!

A bag of the food grade is cheap enough & it’s not worth
risking the pool grade!! Your hospital bill would soon
outstrip any “savings” you might experience!

[subterfuge]

Okay, got it. But if it is poisonous, why am I putting it in my pool?

[Twinkie]

It’s not like arsenic. - Please look up diatomaceous earth
from higher authorities than Twinkie. (It is probably SO
DILUTED in your huge pool that you don’t swallow a whole
lot of poison as a general rule just splashing around.)

I give a bit of the food grade to my dog & cat for the worms
they get. Dog gobbles it up in canned tuna or salmon; but
the cat is finicky & getting her to eat it is not as easy.
I did get a little bit down her mashed up in salmon mixed
with milk last night. - The commercial pills are just about
impossible to get down the cat’s gullet; so the DE is a
little bit better. Dub the Dog will gobble down any old
horrible gunk except maybe carrots unless they’re mashed up
in some other goop. - Brutus the Cat is a fanatic about
being OUTDOORS, another chance for her to eat some critter
that’s full of worms! I’m old & these animals are wearing
me down. It’s like having little kids! I stuck a 10-cent
price sticker on the cat this morning & Fang said she was
overpriced at that! :o)

[subterfuge]

Ok, thanks!