How to deal with fleas on cats?

A little cat flea science: It is important to know that a single cat flea can produce 2,000 eggs in a single day, and usually during the warm season cat fleas enter to reproduce. In a good growing environment, an egg to an adult flea can be as short as 14 days. Even when cat fleas carry worms, then they will give the cat a double dose of parasites, that is, the cat will have internal parasites after the fleas are mistakenly ingested inside the cat while licking the fur.

After reading the science of fleas in cats, the pooper scooper is not surprised by the reproductive power of fleas and their harmfulness, so it is essential to help your cat to be dewormed regularly. Dr. Paws and Claws is going to take a look at the details and hopefully bring lessons to the pooper scoopers.

I. Several manifestations of fleas on cats

1、Cats with dry and rough hair

Infection with parasites can lead to nutritional decline and dehydration, once the cat's body can not keep up with nutrition, the cat's hair will become dry and rough, and the hair will also have small reddish-brown particles.

2、Frequent rubbing or scratching on the ground

Cats with fleas will nibble on their skin to suck the blood and feed, and after the nibble, red and swollen pouches will appear. Cats are itchy when they are nibbled by fleas or the small pouches left after nibbling, so generally cats will rub and scratch their bodies to relieve the itching.

Precautions for cats before deworming

1. Pregnant female cats cannot be dewormed. The use of deworming medication in pregnant female cats will affect the growth and development of the baby in the body.

2. Kittens under 6 weeks of age and kittens not raised from breast milk cannot be dewormed.

3. In vitro deworming of cats is absorbed through the sebaceous glands, so it is not recommended to bathe cats before and after deworming.

4. If more than one cat is dewormed at home, the cats should be temporarily isolated to prevent them from licking each other and being poisoned by accident.

5. Cats that have just been vaccinated cannot be dewormed mainly because the vaccine is inactivated or weakly virulent, and deworming medication is generally antibiotic medication, so using deworming medication just after vaccination will neutralize the effect of the vaccine and prevent immunization.

C. How to deal with fleas on cats

Before deworming your cat, you must choose a good dewormer for your pet, such as Atik, which can kill internal and external parasites, such as lice, ticks, mites, fleas, nematodes and roundworms.

After choosing the right medication you have to deworm the cat, first of all you have to control the cat, for uncooperative cats you can tempt them with food or wrap them in a towel to avoid struggling.

The next step is to apply the medication to the cat. Generally in vitro deworming medication is applied to the back of the pet's neck, the pooper scooper has to separate the hair of the cat's neck to expose the skin, then at the front of the cat's spine, divide the drops into two points or along a straight line to finish the drops, make sure to put the deworming medication in a place where the cat cannot lick it.

The last thing is to wait for the fleas to die off the cat and for the pooper scooper to do a good job of cleaning up.

Dr. Paws and Claws would like to conclude by saying that cat deworming must be done properly. When deworming is done well, safety measures can reduce many unnecessary hidden dangers. Timely prevention and a healthy growing environment for cats is important!