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Default (2010-07-07) NS-RFC: For the 'germophobes' amongst us...

On Jul 8, 9:38*am, Food SnobŪ > wrote:
> On Jul 8, 9:18*am, ImStillMags > wrote:
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> > On Jul 8, 7:00*am, Orpheus99 > wrote:

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> > > On 7/8/2010 10:42 PM, Nancy Young wrote:

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> > > > would require of a commercial kitchen, even if my cat doesn't
> > > > go on the counters, she still spends enough time in there as
> > > > that's where she's fed.
> > > > nancy

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> > > How many cat owners 'really believe' that their cats don't go onto the
> > > kitchen table or counters when we're out of the house? My cat's have
> > > always been 'water spray-bottle trained' to keep off those particular
> > > horizontal areas, and I've never once, in 30-40 years of
> > > cat-companionship seen any of my cats go up there 'when I'm in the house...'

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> > > ... however... on a few occasions I have entered the house at times, I
> > > suppose, that the cat wasn't paying attention, walked into the kitchen
> > > and was as surprised as the cat, who virtually flew off the counter *and
> > > disappeared under the couch for the next three hours... finally slinking
> > > out, keeping well in the shadows and close to the walls making her way
> > > to her litter box. Hey... when ya gotta go, ya gotta go...

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> > > --
> > > Orpheus99

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> > > "A painter paints pictures on canvas. *Musicians paint their pictures on
> > > silence." *~Leopold Stokowski

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> > Exactly. *If people think they are keeping their cats off the kitchen
> > counters, they are delusional.

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> My former cat really didn't go on counters or the dining room table.
> This one goes on the table, and it's not worth my time to try to get
> her not to. *She rarely goes on the counter across from the sink/
> stove, and never goes on the sink/stove side counter, and not because
> I go to a big effort.
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> > I use a bleach sanitizing 1 TBS to a gallon of water to wipe my
> > kitchen down well when I want to feel like I've
> > sanitized everything. * Otherwise it's just a regular wipe down after
> > doing the dishes and sweeping up.

>
> People who spend money on expensive germ killers are wasting that
> money. *Bleach works just fine, the 1T/gal is for already cleaned and
> rinsed surfaces. *While I was off kayaking, my wife bought a can of
> Dow Scrubbing Bubbles. *That's $4 we'll never get back.
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> > One of the reasons people are sick all the time is that we are not
> > allowing kids to eat dirt and boogers and
> > get dirty. * The immune system doesn't have a chance to work properly..

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> I was with you 100% until you got to the booger eating.
>
> --Bryan


Booger eating just gives you back germs you had anyway. Unless of
course you are eating someone else's boogers!

And that's just GROSS! ;-)

John Kuthe...