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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: smart plugs???
Date: 17 Jan 2025 19:27:51 GMT
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:45:41 +0100, D wrote:

> A free range cat? Do you ever have problems with ticks? Every summer in
> the country house when I was young, the neighbours cat would more or
> less move in with us since the food was better than the dry food he got
> at his home. But sometimes it would happen that I would read, and the
> cat wanted petting. So I petted the cat while reading, then look at my
> hand to discover ticks crawling there. So the cat brought us rich gifts
> in the form of ticks and the occasional dead (or alive) mice.

No, I've never seen tics on the cat. I've picked them up hiking but not 
around home. The local version is the Rocky Mountain Wood Tick and true to 
its name seems to prefer brushy areas. I don't think the cat goes out to 
the tree line. There be dragons there.