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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
On the cats, yes(well, eliminall, which is same thing different brand)
Unsure about sticking it on me own neck
maybe you should get a flea collar...
maybe you should get a flea collar...
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
The War On Fleas is continuing and driving me round the bend (the cats seem to have stopped scratching/over grooming, flea combing them isn't revealing many beasties, but my legs and ankles are bitten to fuck. And yes, i've been hoovering, but probably not enough). I've picked up one of those flea bomb things to try all-out chemical warfare, but just noticed it's a bob martin job - anyone had experience with these? I'm fine with them killing the bitey fuckers, but don't want to inadvertently toxify the cats...
Has anyone suggested:
Advocate. I think you have to get it through the vet and it ain't cheap, but it works.
Apparently fleas are becoming resistant to Frontline.
And yes, relentless hoovering, also use one of the sprinkle on powders or sprays for killing fleas in your carpets (and as Geri says, nothing by Bob Martin). You have to break the cycle, man. A solid month of really constantly going at it. No, it's no fun, but you want them gone, right? Suck it up.
E2A: Also consider restricting what rooms the cats have access to while you are doing it. Then you can concentrate on killing the bastard fleas room by room until you get to all the spaces they use regularly, where you really go to town.
It's war.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
my cat is not to keen on kippers
Yeah, mine doesn't like sardines or mackerel. They're supposed to love that shit.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
S'gotta be where you can't lick it off. Ideally, should be applied by two cats, one of whom has you in the Scruff of Death and the other of whom warms it in their cleavage (before breaking the top off !) so its not too cold.On the cats, yes
Unsure about sticking it on me own neck
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
my cat is not to keen on kippers
i think you may have a defective cat
do you still have the receipt?
Mogden
I like tea
Sachin has a stinky mouth. I think he also has teeth issues. He's been lip smacking a bit too much for a few weeks but I caught a whiff of his breath earlier. Not even breath actually, just a stink when I picked him up for a cuddle. I've tried to have a look but he gets that "Not a chance" look on his face and even a scruff grab does little to sedate him. Back to the vet then. Been and picked up Meg today. I'd not had any messages about her being ready for collection so asked and she was. Crossed wires and missing messages but she is home now. Absolutely wrecked on the buses home. Biting my lip and all sorts to stop me wailing. Came home to find all 4 boys greeting me which was so lovely and rare. It was like they were welcoming Meg back. I have got her in place on the sideboard. Photo in the spoiler tags. I appreciate not everyone is interested in a wooden cat urn. She's the gingery black one on the left, Pogue, her son, is the black one on the right.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Aw, got one exactly like Meg's for our much-loved cat who died seven years ago. I find it looks just like a cat fast asleep, which is comforting.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Well, I love cats (obv) but they can be a nightmare. We have three intact toms near us who poo all round the garden to make a point- plus a dog fox who joins in the territory stuff too. Last week, I found two poos on the patio and three in the lawn, (and it's ok as long as I find them before my curious toddler!) then there is the stuff in the flowerbeds that I find when I'm trying to plant stuff- not to mention the sapling tree that is really suffering it's been sprayed so often. I've put curry powder down and male visitors who need the loo are encouraged to wee against the wall at the back of the garden too
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I witnessed an act of bravery from Jimmy today. There was another cat in the garden, and he was hissing at it through the patio doors. I went to open the door, and the noise of me turning the key scared the cat and it ran over the wall. Jimmy legged it through the cat flap and chased after it! So proud. 
_angel_
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Funny thing, our cat only started pooing all over the place after he had the snip. I think he got taken away from the mum too young.Well, I love cats (obv) but they can be a nightmare. We have three intact toms near us who poo all round the garden to make a point- plus a dog fox who joins in the territory stuff too. Last week, I found two poos on the patio and three in the lawn, (and it's ok as long as I find them before my curious toddler!) then there is the stuff in the flowerbeds that I find when I'm trying to plant stuff- not to mention the sapling tree that is really suffering it's been sprayed so often. I've put curry powder down and male visitors who need the loo are encouraged to wee against the wall at the back of the garden too
Have never ending poo cleaning sessions out of the garden.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
That's beautiful, Mogden. She's home now. ((Mogden))
Good luck with Sachin. Good for you for getting on it right away. I let Charlie's stinky teeth go on for too long and he must have been in quite a bit of discomfort.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
If you don't mind me saying, about those urns, I didn't know that sort of thing existed.
I'd been forcing myself to think about the worst when Charlie was in surgery on Monday. I thought my first choice if it was possible was donation if they were a teaching practice, or something like that, but I don't know if that is even an option. Then I thought if not, having his ashes and scattering them on the quiet in the cemetery across the road. It's a beautiful place and I think he'd like to lie in the wildflowers. I wasn't sure I'd cope having his ashes at home. I thought it might make things more difficult for me to cope with, having a physical thing to focus my tears on. When my dad was dying, he told my mum he didn't want a gravestone because he knew she'd go there too often and it would become a focus for her and make it harder to move forward. I think he was right (his ashes are buried in a large field with no marker), he knew her well. And I'm much like her in that respect. That being said, seeing a lovely urn like the one you have... it makes me take pause.
I'd been forcing myself to think about the worst when Charlie was in surgery on Monday. I thought my first choice if it was possible was donation if they were a teaching practice, or something like that, but I don't know if that is even an option. Then I thought if not, having his ashes and scattering them on the quiet in the cemetery across the road. It's a beautiful place and I think he'd like to lie in the wildflowers. I wasn't sure I'd cope having his ashes at home. I thought it might make things more difficult for me to cope with, having a physical thing to focus my tears on. When my dad was dying, he told my mum he didn't want a gravestone because he knew she'd go there too often and it would become a focus for her and make it harder to move forward. I think he was right (his ashes are buried in a large field with no marker), he knew her well. And I'm much like her in that respect. That being said, seeing a lovely urn like the one you have... it makes me take pause.
Mogden
I like tea
I've lost 3 cats so far. My namesake Mogden disappeared and then Meg's son died and I found him hiding in the garden. Burial never really suited me cos I was never sure I would be here in this house. Cremation was the answer for me and those wooden cats aren't cheap, but they do allow them to live on albeit in another form. The hippy in me talking! The sun streams in the window and allows both of them to be bathed in sunlight which of course most cats will do given half a chance. So yeah I said to the vet when she went she gets to come home and live on the sideboard.
Mogden
I like tea
Is it a sort of aiaiaiai? A proper cat chatter. Flinty used to do that to the pigeons. When it's more wintery she'll be back at it.
passenger
up and down...
bang on lol, never had a cat do this before
Mogden
I like tea
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Well, it's all been happening here.
Charlie's been drinking loads of water since he came back home from the vet. Yesterday he started being really agitated. He was ravenous for food, desperate for water, and he was very, very, very vocal. I mean constant noises. I stayed up with him overnight to monitor him, and I called them first thing and took him back in.
Turns out his thyroid levels have shot through the roof, back to what they were when he was first diagnosed 18 months ago. No idea what's caused it. Maybe the surgery upset it? Is that even possible? So I'm to double up his thyroid meds, and he's to go back on Monday. I can't give him his first double dose until 6 because he had a single dose this morning. And it's killing me. He's barely slept in 24 hours (me neither) and he's just pacing and yowling constantly. I mean constantly.
This is all just so horrific. It's all my fucking fault for not getting his teeth and his thyroid out while he was stable. Now he's gone downhill all at once.
On the plus side, apparently his mouth looks good.
I'm beside myself.
Charlie's been drinking loads of water since he came back home from the vet. Yesterday he started being really agitated. He was ravenous for food, desperate for water, and he was very, very, very vocal. I mean constant noises. I stayed up with him overnight to monitor him, and I called them first thing and took him back in.
Turns out his thyroid levels have shot through the roof, back to what they were when he was first diagnosed 18 months ago. No idea what's caused it. Maybe the surgery upset it? Is that even possible? So I'm to double up his thyroid meds, and he's to go back on Monday. I can't give him his first double dose until 6 because he had a single dose this morning. And it's killing me. He's barely slept in 24 hours (me neither) and he's just pacing and yowling constantly. I mean constantly.
This is all just so horrific. It's all my fucking fault for not getting his teeth and his thyroid out while he was stable. Now he's gone downhill all at once.
On the plus side, apparently his mouth looks good.
I'm beside myself.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I cried in front of the vet.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
And the receptionist.
And the taxi driver.
And the taxi driver.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Vintage Paw - If it will not conflict with anything else, get the vet to give you some Zylkene - it should help Charlie settle. it is a natural sedative (we gave our last dog some when he was having night terrors and it helped immensely)
