DON'T TRASH THAT FLEA COLLAR

According to Woman's Day, April 1, 2010:

Flea treatments and collars cannot be thrown in the regular garbage. They must be disposed of at garbage collection sites - you know, those places that accept toxic and hazardous waste.

So, if this is what you are using on your companion animals, think again. I know there are natural alternatives to this poison, you just have to research it. I didn't use a thing for twenty years/12 cats. All I did was comb, comb, comb - and I never had a flea problem. I even had large area rugs. After their dinner meal, I would get each one and 1, 2, 3 comb under their arms, groin, neck, belly, behind ears, tail. Once a week I gave them a thorough combing. I grabbed the fleas stuck in the comb with a tissue and tossed in toilet, where the fleas, what few there were, drowned. They were indoor cats, but I did have one outdoor cat that came in and brought some fleas in, no doubt. When I finally got my outdoor cat to stay in without spraying, the fleas eventually disappeard.

The reason I stopped using toxic chemicals on my cats over twenty years ago was when my third cat was around 4 months, I washed him with a flea soap and he went into convulsions. That was the first and last time I ever used something like that and he never had another convulsion.

To be honest, there were a few times during those years I had to use drugs to get rid of tape worms, which did come from fleas, but I felt that was safer than continued use of flea collars, etc.