International cat day coming
Dear Readers: Aug. 8 is International Cat Day, a celebration since 2002. Its purpose is to raise public awareness and understanding of the domestic house cat and learn ways to help protect them. This year’s theme is “Each Cat Matters.” Drop us a picture and description of your adorable cat to Heloise@ Heloise.com. Your photo just might wind up in the Pet Pal section of my website! – Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: If you’re ever feeling down and in need of some encouragement, turn to Tubbs. Jay’s happy puppy, Tubbs, is a Shih Tzu, age 3. Jay says Tubbs will fling his own toys and fetch them if no one can stop and play. And he knows each of his eight toys by
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name! To see Tubbs and our other Pet Pals, visit Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.” – Heloise TO TRAP A TICK Dear Heloise: To dispose of a tick, I get an inch or two of ordinary transparent tape and hold one end of the tape while touching the sticky side to the tick. I fold the tape over, encasing the tick in the tape. Now it can go into the trash, with no chance of escaping. If I need to take a closer look to ID it or take it to someone else to ID, the tick is still intact and visible with no danger to anyone.–- A Kansas reader (The Manhattan Mercury), via email NEAT NECKLACES Dear Heloise: When traveling or moving, I string my necklaces and chains between the teeth in a comb and place another comb on top of the first. This helps prevent tangling. – Mary in Ohio
Tubbs, is a Shih Tzu, age 3, who knows all eight of his toys by name. OLD ODOR Dear Heloise: I read your column in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Years ago, an elderly neighbor died. Her family passed on to me a pretty wooden jewelry case with a hinged top and two pullout drawers. The interior is lined with a velvet-type fabric. I very much like it, but the smell has not subsided. The only way I can think to describe it is “old lady perfume”
odor. I have had the drawers out and the top standing open for over a week now, and it has not helped. Any suggestions you can give me would be greatly appreciated. – A Reader, Fort Wayne, Ind. Giving you the jewelry case is a lovely gesture, although getting rid of the odor might take a little effort. Place the jewelry box with the lid and drawers open in a large plastic bag with an open box of baking soda. Seal the bag and leave it undisturbed for a couple of weeks. If the odor persists, you may have to generously sprinkle baking soda in the drawers and in the empty box. You’ll need to vacuum out the baking soda, but the odor should be gone. – Heloise Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise@ Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints received in my column. (c)2020 by King Features Syndicate Inc.
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