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Your kitten should be fine, but if you see anything strange, take her to the vet immediately.
No, the kitten is to young still. The instructions on the flea medicine box should give you directions and usage for that product. A 8 week old kitten is too young for flea medicine and also too young for a bath with flea soap
No. The only approved flea treatement for ferrets is Revolution, which is usually available from your vet. You can use the kitten dose of Frontline to treat your ferret for fleas, just use one drop per pound of ferret. (2lb ferret= 2 drops)
Advantage II for cats is a flea and tick treatment that is applied once a month to your cat or your kitten. Advantage II can be purchased online from Walmart and Amazon.
I have used Dawn dish soap....very carefully...on stray kitten I found who was infested with fleas. There is a lot of controversy about this...and it is very drying to the animals skins. There 'may' be store brands that are now okay for puppies and kittens, so you may want to try that first. If you use it on the puppy be very careful with his/her eyes. This will only be a temporary solution, but it may get you started. :)
A heavily infested animal, over time, can lose a substantial amount of blood to fleas. This is mostly the case in very young or frail animals. 70 fleas can consume 1 mL of blood per day which could kill a puppy or kitten in 50 days. Double the number of fleas and the young animal can be dead in a month. They lose so many red blood cells to the fleas that they become anemic and die.
Fleas move, hives don't.
It really depends on how often you use flea or worming treatment on your cat. Generally speaking, you only need to worm twice a year if it is an adult cat, and some flea treatments advise to use their treatments once a month, although some owners will only use flea treatments once every couple of months. Essentially, it doesn't really matter what treatment you use first on your cat.
Yes, but not all. You need a flea collar or something else it will suffer & possibly infest your house.Animals that have fleas can cause an infestation in your house as the previous answer states. You might want to try either some type of flea medication, a flea bath (although with most cats, any type of bath involving water had better be done in a full suit of body armor :) or a flea collar. If you go the flea medication route, make sure you look to see at what age you can administer it. I believe that some flea meds are not safe for small kittens. Actually after doing more research, I've discovered that if the kitten is less than 6 weeks old, you should not use any type of flea treatment on it. To get rid of the fleas wash the kitten in a mild dishwashing liquid such as Dawn and then manually pick the remaining fleas off. See the Related Links below for more info.
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I was given a kitten to watch two years ago. Before the person brought it over, he sprayed it...rather SOAKED the little thing in DOG FLEA SPRAY!! The stupid person did not read the bottle! Kitty had glazed eyes, and since it happened at midnight, there were NO VETS!! We immediately washed the kitten with Dawn...twice with three rinsings. I then blow-dried it on low. Kitty was FINE after that, but we were SO angry, we offered to adopt her. She is now a beautiful full-grown Calico cat, Samantha and VERY happy. We also adopted her sister whose name is Abigail. Please read labels and NEVER use dog flea spray on a kitten or cat! It's best to obtain a flea treatment vial from a licensed vet!
Adult flea beetles feed externally on plants while their larvae feed on roots