I WAS going to entitle this instalment as “Flame-Proofing Your Cat. After further consideration and intense deep thought, I decided against it. Not for a minute am I suggesting that flame-proofing your cat would not be a good idea, but
1) I do not have a cat.
2) I know nothing about flame proofing a cat.
Intelligent readers of this page will note that I frequently will ramble on and on about things that I know nothing about. However, I suggest that I am especially ill equipped to handle the grandiose task of instruction upon this topic.
So lets move on to the ACTUAL topic of todays discourse: The Healing Power of Licking. Yes, thats right. Licking. I read an article about surgery on dogs (this all seems to have a sort of animal theme doesn’t it?) that said that dogs tend to lick themselves after surgery. Naturally, as you MUST be thinking, this is in the shaved area where the surgery took place, not in any… uhm … other area. The article said that the hair on this shaved (and licked) portion of the dog grows much faster than the rate normal for dog hair.
So lets follow this to its inevitable conclusion. Would this not make a good baldness cure? So buy a dog – and gain a friend in the process. Imagine how many people would have no baldness if they just had to have a dog lick their head? This is obviously a much better solution than Rogaine or Propecia, which in the latter case will cause birth defect in the babies of pregnant women if they even get within 250 yards of the stuff. Will dogs cause this? NO.
So do yourself a favour. If you are bald – buy a dog. Sure maybe some people don’t like dogs, and maybe they are “cat-people”. If you MUST own a cat, be sure to flame-proof it. 8 out of 10 veterinarians recommend flame-proofing your cat. The other 2 vets think that these 8 are wrong.