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another point for the arson file
May. 9th, 2022 11:28 amSomething is chewing the hell out of me and it's driving me bonkers.
The cats have been dosed with the flea poison. They are not scratching. Axel - who sleeps with at least one cat on them every night and has at least one cat crashed out in their bedding all day - is not scratching. Meanwhile I'm being eaten alive.
Of course the big worry is that it's bedbugs - Toronto has a pretty bad infestation. But I've lived in places with bedbugs when I was young and broke and I know what their bites and dirt look like - also they have a very strong and distinctive smell and I have been sniffing around a lot in the past couple of weeks, so I'm 99% sure it's not bedbugs.
Axel thinks it's the ants, but ant bites don't itch. They just hurt. I don't think it can be an allergic reaction because it's individual welts rather than patches of hives.
I have caught exactly one flea during this whole time, and that was while I was sitting on the bus. So maybe I'm picking them up on the bus and bringing them home? Who the fuck knows? More than anything the bites resemble mosquito bites so I even cleaned out under the bathroom sink yesterday looking for standing water where I might be breeding them.
I washed all my bedding again yesterday and sprayed down my mattress. And put the one tattered white sheet I have left over from University days on the bed in the hopes of catching whatever in the act. Cause this is genuinely making me nuts.
The cats have been dosed with the flea poison. They are not scratching. Axel - who sleeps with at least one cat on them every night and has at least one cat crashed out in their bedding all day - is not scratching. Meanwhile I'm being eaten alive.
Of course the big worry is that it's bedbugs - Toronto has a pretty bad infestation. But I've lived in places with bedbugs when I was young and broke and I know what their bites and dirt look like - also they have a very strong and distinctive smell and I have been sniffing around a lot in the past couple of weeks, so I'm 99% sure it's not bedbugs.
Axel thinks it's the ants, but ant bites don't itch. They just hurt. I don't think it can be an allergic reaction because it's individual welts rather than patches of hives.
I have caught exactly one flea during this whole time, and that was while I was sitting on the bus. So maybe I'm picking them up on the bus and bringing them home? Who the fuck knows? More than anything the bites resemble mosquito bites so I even cleaned out under the bathroom sink yesterday looking for standing water where I might be breeding them.
I washed all my bedding again yesterday and sprayed down my mattress. And put the one tattered white sheet I have left over from University days on the bed in the hopes of catching whatever in the act. Cause this is genuinely making me nuts.