Everybody is mad at me

[Siwsan]

It's flea treatment day. I splashed out on the pill pockets and the boys spit them AND THE PILL out. So I had to do some wrangling and throat massaging. Carys is beyond uncooperative so I might just crush hers up in her food.

Sian is too young so as much as I don't like flea collars, I picked up one for her. It's white. At least she will be easier to see, if she ever comes out of hiding.

I also bought them a new grooming brush, if they ever let me near them, again.

I'm now going to mix myself a BIG Manhattan because I feel like the most horrid mom on the planet.

[brewens]

1. Flea infestation is rare here, but I must have tracked some eggs or larvae in somehow and my

cat got them. My vet told me to get the treatment where you squeeze the goop out onto the back of their neck.

I got Silver up on my lap and put that on her and she bolted! Spins around, looks at me and licks back there. The "Mr. Yuck" face I got from her was hilarious.

I think it called for one of every month for three months. When it was time for the next one, I got her to come to me with treats and pulled one of those out and she bolted again! She remembered.

Those worked though. I just vacuumed the traffic areas every day and never saw a flea after a week or so.

[wnylib]

3. My cat's vet used the drop treatment on her, too,

when she was a kitten, old enough to get the treatment. She wasn't able to reach around to lick it. The drop was placed high enough to prevent that. It was at the base of her head, right where it attaches to the neck. Physically impossible to reach with her tongue.

It worked well. She is an indoor cat in a city apartment with very little lawn. There are a few flowers and shrubs, but not located where I would walk close enough to pick up fleas or larvae.

The only time that she gets fleas is after a vet visit, possibly transferred from the vet after handing other animals. So she gets a flea drop treatment when she gets a shot. She's been very healthy and, aside from a urinary infection and later, an eye infection 5 years ago, she only goes to the vet for shots when they are due.

Try applying the "goo" a little higher up so your cat can't reach it. If you can catch the cat. Might be a 2 person job.

For pills, I ALWAYS crush them up in a teaspoon of canned food. No more than a teaspoon to be sure that she gets all of it, thoroughly blended with her favorite Fancy Feast flavor of tuna and shrimp. But the only time she gets a pill is before a scheduled vet visit. It's an anti anxiety pill to make her more manageable since she hates going there. I would not risk the shredding of my skin by trying to manually give her a pill.

[lark]

2. Several of the ferals we feed daily have big flea allergy issues.

One is tame enough we can easily dose him with the behind the neck type of medicine, so he's good. The other one is super feral, won't let us touch him or get too close. Hubs got a treatment on him, but since then he is super wary and won't let either of us within a couple of feet of him. Both cats had significant hair loss and sores and are now improving, growing back hair and no sores. I do worry about how we will get a 2nd dose on Fluff, but hopefully he'll calm down in a few weeks.

[niyad]

4. Have they forgiven you yet?

[Siwsan]

5. I think they had a meeting and Madoc reminded everyone to remember who feeds them.

[niyad]

6. Madoc is very wise. I hope things are much calmer, and more loving, today.