Re: hot pepper flakes?

**y*@sfo.com**

At 12:54 PM -0700 8/25/10, Colleen Plimpton wrote:

A reader recently went up one side of me and down the other over a
recommendation in my column concerning use of hot pepper flakes to deter
critters. I can't find much on adverse aspects of such use. Am I missing
something?

Someone on an e-list or forum claimed that hot pepper (I don't recall

if it was flakes or a liquid formulation) had landed their cat or

someone else's in the vet hospital. (check snopes?)

Tanya Kucak
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