Hi,
Hope this post is in the right place. Just got back from the vet and Olive has a tapeworm poor baby, wonder if that's why she's been crying periodically. I thought it was because she was bored, but maybe she was uncomfortable.
Anyways. I know about vacuuming and cutting up a flea collar inside the bag to kill the fleas. I also have some carpet powder to put onto the carpet as a treatment before vacuuming. I'm also planning on completely changing out her litter now, and then again in a couple of weeks.
Going to wash all my bed sheets and stuff that she regularly lays on.
Can I powder treat her cat tree? or would it be best to just straight vacuum it.
Also, I'm wondering if I need to launder all of my clothes that are in my apartment (like all the clean ones hanging in closets etc?) and kitchen and bath towels etc or is that over kill?
I mean I don't want her to be infested with fleas, but I do understand that she may get one or two, but I definitely don't want her to get any parasites!
I plan on wiping down all hard surfaces that she might have walked on (mostly for myself and the ick factor) but I know that fleas and tapeworms won't really be living on these surfaces.
They put advantage on her at the vet, and I will bath her in a week or so with dawn dish soap (our groomer uses it to kill fleas). I have a flea and tick shampoo, but I'm afraid that might be double dosing on top of the advantage as it says that it kills flea eggs for up to 30 days.
So what do you guys think, am I missing anything? Any tips tricks?
Does anyone know of pet safe or non-toxic cleaners that are effective? I would love to be able to use baking soda or white vinegar as I've heard these are great cleaners. However, I have left over 409 cleaner (last of my non-green cleaners) that I was planning on using to be safe.
Thanks a bunch for reading that whole thing!
Hope this post is in the right place. Just got back from the vet and Olive has a tapeworm poor baby, wonder if that's why she's been crying periodically. I thought it was because she was bored, but maybe she was uncomfortable.
Anyways. I know about vacuuming and cutting up a flea collar inside the bag to kill the fleas. I also have some carpet powder to put onto the carpet as a treatment before vacuuming. I'm also planning on completely changing out her litter now, and then again in a couple of weeks.
Going to wash all my bed sheets and stuff that she regularly lays on.
Can I powder treat her cat tree? or would it be best to just straight vacuum it.
Also, I'm wondering if I need to launder all of my clothes that are in my apartment (like all the clean ones hanging in closets etc?) and kitchen and bath towels etc or is that over kill?
I mean I don't want her to be infested with fleas, but I do understand that she may get one or two, but I definitely don't want her to get any parasites!
I plan on wiping down all hard surfaces that she might have walked on (mostly for myself and the ick factor) but I know that fleas and tapeworms won't really be living on these surfaces.
They put advantage on her at the vet, and I will bath her in a week or so with dawn dish soap (our groomer uses it to kill fleas). I have a flea and tick shampoo, but I'm afraid that might be double dosing on top of the advantage as it says that it kills flea eggs for up to 30 days.
So what do you guys think, am I missing anything? Any tips tricks?
Does anyone know of pet safe or non-toxic cleaners that are effective? I would love to be able to use baking soda or white vinegar as I've heard these are great cleaners. However, I have left over 409 cleaner (last of my non-green cleaners) that I was planning on using to be safe.
Thanks a bunch for reading that whole thing!
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