We Don’t Pong!

I’ve managed to get rid of my Human for a few hours so thought it might be a good time to try out this new Blog thing and also see if I could make the lives of my fellow Furries a bit more comfy (and safe!)

When my Human let me out for my Evening Stroll last night I managed to run off with her new Lush Brochure and whilst I was nibbling my way through the pages I came across a small article by Auntie Pamela, on those air fresheners that plug into the wall. Luckily my Human agrees with Auntie Pamela and wouldn’t give any of those dreadful things houseroom but I have noticed that quite a few Humans use them, probably to cover up the alleged Pong that us Furries give off! Well I have news for any Humans that are reading this – we only Pong if you don’t clean us out often enough!

I remember, some years ago, somebody bought one of the wretched things for my Human and within an hour of plugging the festering thing into the wall she was knocked off her feet with a migraine – serves her right! She should have had more sense!

The problem with those so called ‘Air Fresheners’ is that they pollute the atmosphere with synthetic, headache inducing fragrance and waste precious energy (that you are paying for) at the same time. If you don’t believe me, next time check out the packaging and look at the mind boggling list of crap they have to put into these things to create the so called ‘perfume’ And if all that wasn’t enough to put you off, then it might be worth bearing in mind a fair few House Fires have been put down to one of these nasty little things malfunctioning!

Why am I whinging about this? Well I quite often see photos on various animal forums where these air fresheners are plugged in right next to our cages and it isn’t healthy for us (let alone you). You have to remember that although we are a lot smaller than you, we have a much more developed sense of smell and these things really do Pong! Given the amount of dangerous chemicals these things kick out, you are effectively gassing us in our beds !

What to do instead? Well next time you want to freshen the air, open a window! Or if there is still an unclean smell lingering then you might want to remove that 3 day old Pizza, run the hoover or mop around the floor and maybe attack that stinking laundry that has been sat in the corner for the last 3 months.

It’s no good blaming us for the Pong either, us Chins are very clean but we have to rely on you Humans to keep our cages clean, so if we smell, we blame you!

Thank you for listening to my Fuzzy rant!