What do you do with pine tar?

[Davaroo]

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SO its just like pine sap, when you get it on you. I'm definitely gonna get some!

And I sure wish I could have been a fly on the wall when you and the cat were into it....

 

[gritsar]

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It was an experience I'll not soon forget. Funny, but not quite as funny as the time the cat ate a length of ribbon and then ran screaming thru the house - with me in hot pursuit - as the ribbon started coming out the other end.

 

[Lil Chickie Mama]

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It was an experience I'll not soon forget. Funny, but not quite as funny as the time the cat ate a length of ribbon and then ran screaming thru the house - with me in hot pursuit - as the ribbon started coming out the other end.

If we all pitch in for a video camera for you do you promise to set it up so we can see all this stuff? LOL.
I am getting some pine tar from the feed store today and using it to make some soap. I don't know how others use it other than what's already been said. I haven't tried it yet but apparently it makes a good soap, smells good.

 

[gritsar]

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I can't describe things as well as my DH can. When he tells someone about the ribbon incident he makes all the appropriate motions and sounds, which makes it even funnier. He says it was like watching someone with a living, breathing pull-string toy. I'd pull on the ribbon, the cat would scream and run off. Repeated multiple times. It was a very long ribbon.

Never again will I own cats and very pretty curtains that have ribbons running thru them for decoration.

 

[chickiechick2]

My chickens was peckinging the bottoms of the others. I tried everything I could think of. Pine tar was the last thing to try. Opening the can and seeing how thin the liquid was seemed like it was going to just drip down her leg. So I got to thinking and thought if I could make a salve out of it it wouldn't be as messy. I bought a tin of bag balm that you can buy at TS and put a large spoonful in a plastic jar and mixed some of the pine tar into that. The result was perfect. The tar still had it black horrible smell and I now had a salve to smear on their bottoms. You can Los substitute Vaseline if you can't find bag balm. The bag balm or Vaseline have healing properties and isn't as harsh as the pine tar by itself. It really works and the pecking has ceased.