fleas, fleas and more fleas....

make_life_easier

Ok you are right about going to the vet I know, will pluck up the courage this week and in the meantime I'll monitor how much he is scratching, just in case it might be flea bites as I only defleed him yesterday afternoon.

Thanks Andrea

Queenie

make_life_easier wrote:

Ok you are right about going to the vet I know, will pluck up the courage this week and in the meantime I'll monitor how much he is scratching, just in case it might be flea bites as I only defleed him yesterday afternoon.

Thanks Andrea

I didn't realise when my furbaby had earmites ... but once we were given treatment, it suddenly seemed more "obivous". Take a little peek in his ears - if it has blackish/puce coloured build up ... there's a chance it may well be mites afterall.

Good luck with your flea treatments/vets visit.

Fran

Queenie wrote:

If it might be mites in his ears, I would recommend braving a visit to the vet; if it goes untreated it can lead to deafness. The drops are POM (Prescription Only Medicine).

I bought mite drops in the local petsrus (forget name).

Curry_Queen

I want to just make a few comments here, and this is in no way aimed at anybody in particular on either this thread or the site, but is a general observation based on 20+ years experience in veterinary nursing.

All too often people grumble about the cost of a visit to the vets when their pets are sick, and yes, sometimes treatment can be very expensive, but this is all part and parcel of owning an animal and should be considered and budgeted for before even thinking of getting a pet. There are plenty of insurance schemes available these days to cover the cost accidents/illness that can often run into several thousand pounds. If you can't afford to pay for a vet then you really can't afford to have pets in the first place

I get very frustrated when I see people willing to risk their pet's health by delaying proper veterinary treatment and going for the "cheaper" option of supermarket/pet shop remedies (most of which don't work anyway) as it's just a false economy and will cost you more in the long run, whilst the animal suffers in the meantime

Curry_Queen

Queenie wrote:

I didn't realise when my furbaby had earmites ... but once we were given treatment, it suddenly seemed more "obivous". Take a little peek in his ears - if it has blackish/puce coloured build up ... there's a chance it may well be mites afterall.

Once it gets to the stage where you notice a build up like that then the cat/dog has quite a serious problem. The structure of the ear canal is such that you cannot see inside properly without an otoscope, which is why a vet is needed to make the diagnosis

purplegirluk1

Hee hee, petsrus, thats what we call em to, they have such silly names!

We still have a few fleas about, the kitten has been scratching a bit but it may be because she has sores from having such severe fleas? I have been regularly hoovering and swilling the dyson thing out with dissinfectant to kill the buggers. I cannot find any fleas on her anymore when I comb so thats a good sign, she has the odd scratch but nothing like when we got her, she was biting herself cos they were so nasty.

She has been wormed now with a spot on, the silly girl managed to lick a bit and as it has a bitter taste she sat in front of me for about ten minutes sticking her tongue out! I did put it in the correct place but she is just so flexiable! It does say that it won't harm her though, thank gooodness!

Just gotta wait until she is 12 weeks before I can use any fleas sprays or a get a collar for her, oh how annoying!

Queenie

Curry_Queen wrote:

Once it gets to the stage where you notice a build up like that then the cat/dog has quite a serious problem. The structure of the ear canal is such that you cannot see inside properly without an otoscope, which is why a vet is needed to make the diagnosis

Agree with you 100% - that's how I know about it.

Curry_Queen

purplegirluk1 wrote:

She has been wormed now with a spot on,

???????


Please take your kitten to the vet and get her some proper treatment. Who knows what's going on inside her poor little body having had such a bad start in life (I'm not blaming you here) and there's every chance she is anaemic and has an infection going on from what you've described with the severe flea problem, not to mention a massive worm burden. I don't know what this "spot-on" wormer is you mention but it's not going to get rid of her worms, unless you've already been to the vets and have been prescribed Profender, in which case I apologise

purplegirluk1

It is a Bob Martin wormer that you use on their skin, it comes in a small tube just like the flea spot ons. It is suitable for kittens her age and claims (though I cannot tell you if this true at the moment as I only used it last night) to be 100% effective.

Curry_Queen

Ok, well I'm not going to comment further as this site isn't really the place and I've got far too sidetracked as it is here. All I ask is that you read some of my posts further up, and good luck with your kitty!