OK I really want to stomp up and down and scream and yell right now. Partly because of someone else's actions and partly because of my own stupidity.
Here's what has happend.
11 glorious weeks ago I was blessed with 4 bottle babies to add to my already rescued momma that poppped out 6 babies just 4 weeks prior to that and my already blessed home of 3 adult cats of our own. OK so we have 14 cats in the house if you count that out. (this will come in to play later)
A week after I got these little darlings I had to have someone else care for them because I was getting married and going on honeymoon/vaction with my family (ok irrelevent and I'm babbling)
After getting my wonderful boys back and they started to get their eyes fully open and do the growing thing I noticed that one started to get a bit of a spot on his head while bathing him. I bathed them often usually every day if not more depending on how messy they were from feedings and the usual bottle baby bed accidents. OK, just keep an eye on it.
Well, then he and the other 3 started to have more little bumps here and there and I just kept doing my thing, cleaning, taking off any flaking skin, etc. and started to worry so I started looking things up. OMG there is too much information on the net sometimes so I ended up taking them to the vet.
RINGWORM - Vet didn't seem too concerned, sent me home with a small bottle of Conofite lotion, said to put it on the infected areas twice a day and nothing more. OK so off we go to do this...
Since nobody else seemed to be that concerned about it, neither was I.
Then I got it, my daughter got it, a friend of hers got it and the friends mom got it, and their cats got - Another home is now infected!!!
I start doing more research because at this point my babies are losing their hair. I'm continuing the treatment but it just doesn't seem to be enough and I run out. I continue to clean them and look online to see if there is anything at home I can do as I don't have the money to go to the vet with them again (I was under a rescue group's umbrella for help with costs but the group fell apart and I was asked to keep the cats in my care, that's another issue all together)
So here we are with these original babies 11 weeks old. I found out 3 weeks ago that the person that had taken my babies to care for them (the "founder" of this other "rescue" group) Had ring worm really bad in her house and never told me!!!!
I am so angry right now because the more I dive in to learning the worse it gets! I never knew how they were transmitted other than if they touched each other and IF the infection got to the other cats. This wasn't much of an issue because the bottle babies up until a couple of weeks ago were usually in a kennel unless feeding, bathing or out for just a short time during the day for exercise. If we were gone or at night they were in the kennel for their safety.
I'm so mad at myself for not investigating sooner. As I have been flea combing every one without any kind of cleaning the combs in between cats. They share everything, they go everywhere in the house and it's not unusual for us to have a bedfull at night with us.
You guessed it, I can't keep up with it!!!
If there is anyone out there that has anything that they can offer as far as advice on home remedies of any kind for these babies I would be ever so greatful.
I'm racking my brains trying to figure out how I am going to get all 11 of the cats left here at the house in to the vet for extensive treatment for this, ear mites and all the other things that cats get before I can even think about getting them their vaccinations or spayed/neutered.
I have found that I am going to have to wash absolutely everything over and over and over again, it will be endless until it's all gone off the cats. I'll be bleaching until I die it seems and luckily I have no carpet in the house so I don't have to deal with that.
I've been using over the counter antifungal cream on us humans to keep it under wraps but watch for any new spots that may develop.
Is there any hope at all?
Here's what has happend.
11 glorious weeks ago I was blessed with 4 bottle babies to add to my already rescued momma that poppped out 6 babies just 4 weeks prior to that and my already blessed home of 3 adult cats of our own. OK so we have 14 cats in the house if you count that out. (this will come in to play later)
A week after I got these little darlings I had to have someone else care for them because I was getting married and going on honeymoon/vaction with my family (ok irrelevent and I'm babbling)
After getting my wonderful boys back and they started to get their eyes fully open and do the growing thing I noticed that one started to get a bit of a spot on his head while bathing him. I bathed them often usually every day if not more depending on how messy they were from feedings and the usual bottle baby bed accidents. OK, just keep an eye on it.
Well, then he and the other 3 started to have more little bumps here and there and I just kept doing my thing, cleaning, taking off any flaking skin, etc. and started to worry so I started looking things up. OMG there is too much information on the net sometimes so I ended up taking them to the vet.
RINGWORM - Vet didn't seem too concerned, sent me home with a small bottle of Conofite lotion, said to put it on the infected areas twice a day and nothing more. OK so off we go to do this...
Since nobody else seemed to be that concerned about it, neither was I.
Then I got it, my daughter got it, a friend of hers got it and the friends mom got it, and their cats got - Another home is now infected!!!
I start doing more research because at this point my babies are losing their hair. I'm continuing the treatment but it just doesn't seem to be enough and I run out. I continue to clean them and look online to see if there is anything at home I can do as I don't have the money to go to the vet with them again (I was under a rescue group's umbrella for help with costs but the group fell apart and I was asked to keep the cats in my care, that's another issue all together)
So here we are with these original babies 11 weeks old. I found out 3 weeks ago that the person that had taken my babies to care for them (the "founder" of this other "rescue" group) Had ring worm really bad in her house and never told me!!!!
I am so angry right now because the more I dive in to learning the worse it gets! I never knew how they were transmitted other than if they touched each other and IF the infection got to the other cats. This wasn't much of an issue because the bottle babies up until a couple of weeks ago were usually in a kennel unless feeding, bathing or out for just a short time during the day for exercise. If we were gone or at night they were in the kennel for their safety.
I'm so mad at myself for not investigating sooner. As I have been flea combing every one without any kind of cleaning the combs in between cats. They share everything, they go everywhere in the house and it's not unusual for us to have a bedfull at night with us.
You guessed it, I can't keep up with it!!!
If there is anyone out there that has anything that they can offer as far as advice on home remedies of any kind for these babies I would be ever so greatful.
I'm racking my brains trying to figure out how I am going to get all 11 of the cats left here at the house in to the vet for extensive treatment for this, ear mites and all the other things that cats get before I can even think about getting them their vaccinations or spayed/neutered.
I have found that I am going to have to wash absolutely everything over and over and over again, it will be endless until it's all gone off the cats. I'll be bleaching until I die it seems and luckily I have no carpet in the house so I don't have to deal with that.
I've been using over the counter antifungal cream on us humans to keep it under wraps but watch for any new spots that may develop.
Is there any hope at all?