I have a 5-6 month old kitten that has fleas. I need a home remedy because she can't use other store products.
By amberfaith01
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Hi,
If I had a cat of that age right now, I would probably go to the vets or order off amazon.com capstar or the equivalent if the flea infestation was really bad. If it was just average I would give the cat a bath, if you are able to, with dawn dish soap the blue kind.
Now that being said, it takes a ton of dish soap in your hand and you have to pick the fleas as they start running towards the cats head. Here is a video on how to bathe a cat, and also I always trim nails before hand, theirs not mine.
Here are a selection of videos from youtube.com on the subject:
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What I do, is I get the bathtub filled with warm water about half as deep as the cat is tall. It has to be warm water. After carefully trimming the cats nails with a cat nail trimmer, like this: www.youtube.com/
I get the nail trimmer from amazon.com for ferrets and guinea pigs etc. It looks like this:
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Now I will describe what it is really like to bathe a cat. First you bring the cat in and put it in the bath. They really don't like this. Then you get the dawn and put a ring of it around their neck so the fleas don't really crawl up into their face, but some still do.
Then you put a handful of dawn dishwashing liquid on them, avoiding their eyes. You can use baby shampoo with a handful of peroxide but I don't use that. Then you lather a thick layer of dawn and water on the cat. At this point you let the cat out on a bunch of towels in the bathroom and don't open the door.
You leave them like this for about 4 minutes which seem like forever.
Then you put them back in the water after that and rinse and rinse. Fleas will be everywhere and you may have to keep rinsing and such until most of them are gone.
This is when you finally have them rinsed and then you put them in a towel. The whole time you are talking to them about how good they are being. You will have tons of fleas on you dead and alive.
Then when you dry them you will still see fleas. That is when you start picking them off of the kitten or cat.
Later when the cat is dry you can do the flea comb on them and dump the fleas in water with dish soap on it. Now that is the basic bathing.
You can also order capstar from the vet or get a topical flea treatment from the vet for cats. I do not like frontline. Capstar kills all fleas within a certain amount of time but it is not long acting but it does kill them all.
I like this, and I don't use capstar really often at all. I like this because it is more against the flea birth cycle than the cat. www.amazon.com/
Plus it comes in capsules that are flavored and you can use half a capsule and save the rest. It is a monthly product.
It is way easier to just buy a topical from the vet that isn't frontline. I like to do the other because it is good for the cat to be bathed and also you need to up the nutrition for the cat, get rid of the grains....grains and soy and wheat, man they are awful parts of foods. Find the best food you can afford. The really cheap cat foods have nothing but corn and wheat and that makes a cat sick.
Also... sprinkle salt on the floors if you have fleas, put it under the bed sheets, where you wont' be made uncomfortable with it.
I have this stuff I use on my ferret it is Hi Yield garden pet and livestock dust. It seems to work on my ferret but I don't know how well it works on cats but here it is. I go to the feed supply stores for most of my dog and cat food.
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Once you get the fleas out of your house and get the cats on a better diet, and believe me you will save money on the better diet even if you have to spend twenty dollars or more on a bag of cat food that hasn't got wheat corn or soy and has real meat in it you will find a lot of the flea problems will go away.
Also I you can find wormers at the feed supply stores.
I like to use safeguard for goats: Here is the link
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Here are the doses of using the safeguard on cats
Here are the dosages of fenbendazole
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Right now I have eight cats and none of the have fleas, even though only four of them took the lufneron, and they are on a good diet as of right now. Sometimes I run out of money and I use what I can afford but when I can I get the best cat foods. Well not the best but the better ones and that is a trial and error thing, where you read the ingredients!
The person you should be talking to for expert advise is your Veterinarian.
I have a 7 month old kitten. And I called the vet a couple of months ago because my roommate had 6 flea infested animals (I no longer live there). And she told me to use blue dawn. And it has worked tremendously.
Palmolive dish soap!!!
It works so well on kittens.
I'd soak them first in it smother the fleas and than add water, wait and rince.
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