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Hi Nancy, Nov 11, 2013
Homemade cake soap could be quite alkaline and caustic so it would be
questionable food for mice or men (includes women).
Retail cake soap is I think nearly neutral or at least neutral enough to
not remove skin. Cake soap is a sodium or potassium salt of a long chain
fatty acid (one arm of three of a trigliceride if I correctly recall) and
should do in a pinch. There might be some glycerine (harmless). The
perfumes etc that get added for consumer appeal are likely harmless. Any
animal that can eat fat should do ok on soap and have clean teeth to boot.
Paraffin was is harmless but I doubt that it is digestable.
Yt, DW, Kentville
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From: "nancy dowd" <nancypdowd@gmail.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 6:39 AM
Subject: [NatureNS] does eating soap harm Deer Mice
>A friend, who used to inspect old houses for potential buyers, said he
>always knew there were Deer Mice around b/c he would find chewed up soap
>bars and candles. Like Deer Mice, my Labrador also eats soap (and balls of
>wool and…) due to the tallow or lanolin present. But when he eats these
>items they are soon thrown up- rejected as undigestible.
>
> I can see how a candle might go down OK but do not understand how Deer
> Mice survive after eating soap? Isn't it as impossible for them to digest
> as it is for the Lab? Or do they just hoard it and never actually eat it?
>
> Nancy
>
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