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Thought I'd give a further update... so after just over a year with no problems Lucky's eye started running again. I bathed it in boiled water etc, after 3 days it wasn't looking any better, it looked a bit swollen etc, but didn't seem to be troubling her - she wasn't washing it all the time or...

Sorry just read that back and so badly written!Vacuuming will encourage the adults to emerge from the pupae and get 90+% of the already emerged ones...if you have time etc to do a through vacuum every day do - but otherwise do a quick run round daily...rather than putting it off till you can do...

Already posted about this - I got rid of fleas using a flea comb after pesticides let me down but it took a long time...and if you have so many on your cat you have them in your house too..You need a decent flea comb - a longer tooth one.Comb every day for as long as you can - if your cat won't...

The flea dirt will (eventually) just fall out - it is 'designed to' with the eggs - that is what the flea larva eat when the eggs hatch... also she should be able to groom it out ...I think a gentle flea comb will help it along (and I would recommend regular flea combing anyway ...)And you need...

I have a leather sofa that was given me as a try it and see...(not sure if I would like leather...) My cat didn't scratch at it at all for about 18 months - but has started recently and now has made a bit of a mess of two arms...(rest of sofa is a mess too - we are moving soon and will be...

I've tried a zoom groom - my sister got one for her cat (Tash- long hair) and he loved it - so I got one for mine (short hair) and she hated it - in fact I've just dug it out and tried again and she still does...See you're in Manchester (I'm in Scotland but my parents live near Manchester..)If...

Cholespriestess - I do agree with you - to take it slow...but if after trying for a month or so with different brushes etc I really think you might just have to do and then spoil like mad... Thinking about giving Keith her thyroid tablets - had to be done twice a day ....I couldn't fool her...

Sorry - I agree with chloespriestress and ritz too ...cross post - struggling to post and then got distracted....

I used to have a long haired, a rescue cat (Keith) and she was very nervous too (she was scared of children...), she did come round but was always a mummy's (me) cat! She trusted me - even though I wormed her, groomed her and gave her tablets everyday when she was old etc For hairballs you can...

I think I got passed being grossed out by fleas...(I do remember being on the verge of tears about it once though)I really think the pesticides weren't working as effectively as the regular flea combing did...and the problem last much longer than it needed to because I kept relying on them to...

My cat has had problems with fleas for 6 years now.... a nightmare and it has cost a fortune... She had a flea collar from the supermarket and was fine...then she started getting fleas on and off...so I got frontline from the vet - it was fantastic - no more fleas... for 18 months - 2 years -...

Taken her to the vet today - decided that it wasn't getting better. Good examination, including the drops for damage and no obvious sign of anything.Vet thinks rather than an eye infection (which would have spread to the other eye) - it is probably a contamination and this eye may just not be...

This is a long time ago - so my memory is hazy but I took in an ex stray with only one ear - no idea how he lost it -we always thought fighting - he had various names but 'One Ear' was one! He was straight off the street and had worms, fleas etc and ear mites in both ears and I treated them...

Thank you for your reply - In general Lucky has been 'fine' going to the vet in the past - just the injection time after the tail squeezing incident a few years ago now (and to be honest - that was bad - I have never heard a cat scream in pain like that before ...made me teary and I knew it was...

My old cat - Keith - many years ago I came home to find a pile of cat sick on my bed (!) and in the middle was a small headless pink rubber pig (one of the novelty eraser type things that had been on display on a shelf). Took the advice of the vet , but she never had any symptoms, never saw...