I was in the Veterinary supply place last week to pick up some Frontline for my 4 leggers.
They also sell animal feed there too.

I had the strangest experience...got the Frontline, paid for it...but it was like the owner wanted to talk, so I chit-chatted for a bit.
Then he looks at my friends that are with me ( LOL.. my big scary tattooed, pierced, on again/off again boyfriend), and he just blurts out " Do you raise chickens?'!
It was so off the wall!
Ricky does not look like a chicken farmer standing there in his Ramones T-shirt, and boots.. :P
I guess the guy could see my shock...because then he started talking about how much feed he is selling for chickens ( this is in Louisville, proper, big city).
Says that there are tons of people that are getting 6 chickens and keeping them in their backyards.
Apparently 6 is the limit you can keep inside the city limits.

I felt it was worth sharing, just for weirdness alone...LOL
But I also thought, "that guy sure did make an effort to be sure and tell me how many people are starting to keep chickens in the city" might be something I'm supposed to pass along.

So, here it is.......there has been a big uptick in the number of City Dwellers that are housing 6 chickens in their backyard.



Having chickens is a great idea, more people should have them.

Now the Frontline, is not such a great idea. Any of those types of flea products are basically insecticides, and the end result of putting this on any animal will be to shorten their life span and create illness.

I recently adopted an older Pekingese boy, who was observed to have poor muscle control when he was found as a stray. When I got him home he seized a couple of times in the first couple of weeks. It was only when I saw how sensitive he was to fleas that I realized that his former owners must have used flea control "poison" on him to control fleas.

I do not use this on my guys and never will. When fleas are a problem, I bath them with a squirt of iodine and it kills the fleas dead.

I now have the job of trying to get this poison out of his poor little body. People really should research things before they put them in their bodies or the bodies of those they love. Just sayin .......

Umm? a squirt of iodine? My bassett spends 50% of his time outside, Iodine does the job?