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[icarus]

Help.

Kitty has fleas. Bad. We got him this stuff called Frontline. Followed the directions and put it on his shoulders today like you're supposed to.

For a bit he seemed to relax, and for about two hours his scratching went way down.

Now he's acting like the biting is worse than ever. He's scratching the top of his head and his chin and mouth, and he's been panicky, racing around.

Now he's panting and very unhappy, licking and scratching his extremities: face, legs, tail. It's really driving him nuts.

Is there anything we can do?


ETA: wildernessguru is going to give him a bath with a mild soap, in hopes that will get the immediate fleas off. I've told him to protect his eyes, mouth, ears, nose with petroleum jelly first.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you. His reaction doesn't follow any of the patterns of allergies listed, but that's definitely something to look out for. He was jumping up and racing around like he was being bitten, and the panting seemed to be from running.

I'm actually not so wrung out, or I normally wouldn't be without WG freaking out and wanting to fix everything for him. There are worse thing in life than the discomfort of fleas. I understand. I had virulent poison ivy that was so bad, I walked through it one weekend, and I itched for nearly 30 days. I poured near-boiling hot water to kill the itching for two hours at a time. Calamine made it worse, actually, even with Benedryl. But it would pass.

wildernessguru on the other hand was panicky and frantic and wanted me to solve everything for him. *sigh* Sometimes I forget he's never had a kitty before, not one he was responsible for anyway. He's really as stressed as the kitty is I think.

No. I think WG's in worse shape than the kitty.

Icarus

[tigerlilly2063.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can absolutely understand that. I don't have a cat at the moment but when I had one I was nearly the same when it was sick or something else. And my partner's not better than me, just worse.
But although it's really scary (but in some special way also a bit funny) to see someone freak out when you'd thought he's the calm one. Especially when it's such a trivial thing.

Wish you luck with calming them both down.