Posted by Dory on October 7, 2007, at 10:01:19
i found a flea.
i am fastidious and paranoid about fleas.
i flea comb the dogs and inspect them constantly.
i discovered that a high quality homemade diet seemed to mean they never got fleas. i found one two years ago. i have not bought flea stuff in four years.
i know anyone can pick up a random flea.. on your pant leg... from the grass.. from a passing pet
but i found a flea.
in my house
it's a holiday and i can't rush out and buy flea-nuclear-bomb stuff
i really am paranoid about them
i am imagining them everywhere. every little speck gets investigated. i feel them crawling on me.. in my hair..
i need to put an allergy-anti-crawly cover on my mattress.
i need to disinfect
oh my god.. i forgot.. fleas can carry worms.. even tape worms
oh no
don't i have enough to deal with? why does the universe hate me so?
i am petrified of spiders but i would rather have found a tarantula.. at least they are big enough to see easily.. it's hard to hide a tarantula in your bed sheets.. and they are soft-bodied so you could just suck them into a vacuum cleaner or mash them. i don't like to kill anything... but fleas and tarantulas are exceptions.
a flea
my whole thinking mechanism is disturbed and thrown off by a creature barely 3mm long.
a flea... a f*ck*ng flea
what do i do?
poster:Dory
thread:787536
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