My cat brought fleas on my bed, how can I get rid of them!?
Know the feeling have been through it a few times the best way to get rid of fleas off bedding is to wash it with cat flea shampoo,this kills them and their eggs but you will need to treat the home too as the eggs will hatch in 14 days so restarting the whole cycle off again, you can get a special spray of the vet to treat the home,follow the instructions carefully and also vacuum the whole house even in places the cat hasn't been,even treat the cats bed what we do is wash the cat bed in cat flea shampoo works a treat!, all else your doing sounds good they will soon go,remember to repeat in 14 days to get the eggs as they hatch before they can reproduce all over again.
How do i uninfest my home of fleas from my three cats?
well 1st off you have to vacuum your whole house good and thorw the bag out. use flea and tick shampoo on your cats. then use frontline on your cats. you have to treat or spray your yard(s) or you will be fighting this problem if not treated.
Can my home become infested with fleas if I had a cat with it for only two days?
It depends but, if you want a short answer, it’s YES.Now please allow me to elaborate:If the cat had lots of fleas, it’s possible for a few do fall on the floor and if it was warm it’s possible they decided to have little juniors. In a warm environment they tend to breed but from here to infestation it’s a long way. Infestation is when you see lots of black dots hopping on the bed and floor.Do you get bitten? If not, don’t worry it means they don’t see you as food and they will eventually starve. There are also plenty of anty-flea liquids that you just spray on the floor.One of my cats had fleas, we got rid of them and that was it for me. I have never in my life got bitten by fleas, but my husband started to get bitten like crazy. They were feeding on him so, obviously, they weren’t dying because they had food. I didn’t pay any attention to them but since he was getting bitten he was on all fours on the floor obsessing over them.So I went to an veterinary pharmacy and they gave me something do dissolve in water and spray on the floors. I made the solution more concentrated than they said, sprayes all the floors, closed the windows and left for 5 hours. Then I came home, washed the floors and the problem was solved for good.
How do I help this stray cat with a severe open wound on its ear?
I keep the following available for cat rescue: 1) A can of tuna or wet cat food cost $1 2) Bag of reasonable dry food. $4-$5 3) Drontal dewormer (Drontal is the only wormer that kills every type of intestinal worm commonly found in dogs and cats.) $3 4) Revolution (Treats and kills flea, tick and ear mite as well as heartworm, hookworm, roundworms.)$10 ***Advantage works just as good but it is sometimes harder to find and it is bit more expensive. ***I don’t use any other product other than Revolution or Advantage as none of the others treat ear mites which is a guaranteed problem for strays. 5) Cat safe shampoo designed for flea treatment. $5 6) Litter box 7) Option electric hair trimmer. If the cat comes around on a regular basis then treat it 24-48 hours before bringing it in the house. This will allow the fleas to die or jump off the cat outside and not in your house where they will breed and cause a problem for you. First never feed a stray before treatment. You want the cat hungry so it will gobble up the Drontal pill. Read directions for Dontral pill. Usually a full pill can be used to treat 4 small cats, 2 medium cats or 1 large cat. Use a ¼, ½, or full pill. Wrap the piece of Dontral in wet cat food or tuna. Do not use the whole can of food. It has to be a small enough portion that you can see the dish is empty meaning the cat ate all the pill. If you use the whole can you won’t know the pill was eaten or the cat will eat the whole can leaving the pill behind and it won’t be hungry anymore so no second chance to treat it. After the cat eats the tuna wrapped Drontal allow him to eat as much food as he wants. While he is eating treat the cat with Revolution. This gets applied between its shoulder blade or on the back of its neck. It has to get on the skin not the top of the fur. To make this easier I sometimes use electric hair clippers to shave a small patch on the back of the cat’s neck. If the cat comes around on a regular basis let the cat go. The fleas, ticks mites etc will die off over 24-48 hours. Then the next day bring the cat in, feed it a good meal as it may not want to eat after you bath it. Give it a good bath using the medicated shampoo to help take out any remaining fleas or other skin parasites. Make sure you have a litter box read for it as well.
Is it true that you can't bathe an unvaccinated kitten (The kitten is 2 months old)?
A friend of my former supervisor was in the habit of bringing her abandoned or orphaned kittens—probably because my supervisor never said no. One day some years ago, the friend turned up with a tiny, very young, dreadfully scrawny, and horribly flea-ridden marmalade boy cat. This was around the time the pharmaceutical industry came out with medicinal applications that actually worked to kill the fleas and flea eggs that afflicted our pets, so it’s possible that we didn’t have the option (or know we had the option) of chemically eliminating fleas.The little guy went home with our boss that night and was subjected to a bath in shampoo designed to kill fleas and ticks. His vet care started almost immediately and he was given all the inoculations that were demanded at the time. He adapted to home life wonderfully well, in spite of the shock of being bathed in water, and grew into a big, bouncing, beautiful long-haired orange cat.So if you deem that a bath—one!—is truly necessary, just make sure you keep soap or shampoo away from your cat’s face and ears, and rinse the substance off thoroughly before you attempt to towel the kitty dry. And if the cat won’t stand for being dried, just let her go!
What do I do with an abandoned, stray kitten?
Now that you know about it and have given it some care, you can't just abandon it.Never mind that the shelters you called said they can't help you. Don't leave the kitten out there to die, which it will without warmth, food and care. Take it to a shelter. But keep in mind that unless it's a No-Kill Shelter, they will put it down. Kittens that young have to be hand-fed every couple of hours, which is a lot of time and work that most shelters can't afford to spare. They usually are forced to euthanize them unless they have volunteers to foster them.It's a sad fact. We got our cat Chance at three weeks because a friend who worked at a shelter called my husband to tell him they had several tiny kittens that would be put down unless we wanted one. My husband drove nearly two hours to the shelter just in time to save the last one. He brought him home for me because I was still grieving for an older cat we had just lost, and we had to wean him ourselves, feeding him and getting him on to solid food.If you can, I would say to adopt it. It's crying because it's lost, alone, scared and hungry. Who knows what happened to the mother that ended up with it all alone. Take it in, give it a warm bath, warm it up with a gentle towel massage, and keep it in a separate room from the dog until it gets used to the new smell. (The dog may even love it - you'd be surprised at how maternal some dogs can be with kittens). Get goat milk and wet cat food for kittens, mix it (2 parts milk for every 1 part wet food) and feed it every few hours. Every week lessen the milk and increase the wet food. If you decide to keep it, take it to a vet and have it de-wormed, checked for fleas and get its first round of shots. (Don't give it a flea bath at home - the chemicals are far too harsh. A simple warm bath, a pair of tweezers, a fine-tooth comb and some time in the bathroom can get rid of the worst of it. Drop the fleas in a container of soapy water. And do it in the bathroom - tile is much better than carpet for this, believe me.)Many cities and counties offer services that will cover a large part (or all) of the cost to get pets spayed or neutered, so check into that, too.But please don't just leave that kitten out there. Go get it right now. Please.