Why does my boy keep coming home with fleas?!
Posted: Fri May 12, 2017 8:15 pm
Hello everyone, Im a long term cat owner but new to this forum. I'm hoping for some reassurance really.
I have 2 cats. A female aged 11 who I have never had a flea problem with and never even needed to medicate her in the whole 11 years, and we now have a male cat who is aged 1.
We got him last year and sometime at the end of summer we had a flea problem. It was horrible as I had just had a baby. I got bitten a lot. I react very badly to flea bites, huge red lumps that burn and itch for weeks. It was totally my fault as neither cat was flea treated. I felt awful as my poor girl cat who had never had fleas was covered. I think it was clearly boy cat who caused the problem.
Anyway, both cats got put on advantage, house sprayed several times with Indorex. After a month or so it was all sorted, happy days, and we have never missed a treatment since. They get their spot on every month without fail.
Now here is my concern. Since last month I have started seeing fleas on boy cat. First a dead one in his water bowl, then a live one in his water bowl. I have seen two fleas on top of his fur that I picked off. Still alive and jumping. I have found a couple of fleas when sweeping up the floors downstairs, still alive but not really moving much or jumping. I have not seen any fleas just hoping around the house.
I am just so so paranoid about it and it's really upsetting me. I don't want to go through the horror of the infestation we had last year. I have a young baby and a 6 year old and I'm so worries about them getting bitten as I know how awful it is if you react like I do to the bites. If my baby got bitten and reacted badly I would be so upset.
So my question is do any of you still see the odd fleas on your cats? Even though they are on treatment? Should I be worried? Can I be rest assured that any fleas I'm seeing will die and not infest my house again? I feel so uncomfortable that fleas are even in the house, even if they will just die.
Why is my boy coming home with so many fleas? Girl cat doesn't seam to have any?
I did take him the vet last week as I was so paranoid and she said he has no fleas and no flea dirt etc and told me to stick with the advantage.
I don't think there are fleas in our garden as we often. Sit out there and never get bitten. Wish I knew why he keeps coming home with fleas on him.
Sorry this is so long, but can anybody reassure me that I'm doing the right thing and that I don't need to do anything else? Thank you so much for any advice x
I have 2 cats. A female aged 11 who I have never had a flea problem with and never even needed to medicate her in the whole 11 years, and we now have a male cat who is aged 1.
We got him last year and sometime at the end of summer we had a flea problem. It was horrible as I had just had a baby. I got bitten a lot. I react very badly to flea bites, huge red lumps that burn and itch for weeks. It was totally my fault as neither cat was flea treated. I felt awful as my poor girl cat who had never had fleas was covered. I think it was clearly boy cat who caused the problem.
Anyway, both cats got put on advantage, house sprayed several times with Indorex. After a month or so it was all sorted, happy days, and we have never missed a treatment since. They get their spot on every month without fail.
Now here is my concern. Since last month I have started seeing fleas on boy cat. First a dead one in his water bowl, then a live one in his water bowl. I have seen two fleas on top of his fur that I picked off. Still alive and jumping. I have found a couple of fleas when sweeping up the floors downstairs, still alive but not really moving much or jumping. I have not seen any fleas just hoping around the house.
I am just so so paranoid about it and it's really upsetting me. I don't want to go through the horror of the infestation we had last year. I have a young baby and a 6 year old and I'm so worries about them getting bitten as I know how awful it is if you react like I do to the bites. If my baby got bitten and reacted badly I would be so upset.
So my question is do any of you still see the odd fleas on your cats? Even though they are on treatment? Should I be worried? Can I be rest assured that any fleas I'm seeing will die and not infest my house again? I feel so uncomfortable that fleas are even in the house, even if they will just die.
Why is my boy coming home with so many fleas? Girl cat doesn't seam to have any?
I did take him the vet last week as I was so paranoid and she said he has no fleas and no flea dirt etc and told me to stick with the advantage.
I don't think there are fleas in our garden as we often. Sit out there and never get bitten. Wish I knew why he keeps coming home with fleas on him.
Sorry this is so long, but can anybody reassure me that I'm doing the right thing and that I don't need to do anything else? Thank you so much for any advice x