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#106268 - 09/19/07 02:48 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: librarian]
Kris Offline
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Registered: 04/13/07
Posts: 627
Loc: A Canadian Back in Canada
Originally Posted By: librarian

Hi, Blast. I, too, have cats and de-flea with Advantage.


We use Advantage here. Even have one of the cats trained to come up to me - and without holding her - let me put it on her. I think it might have to do with the piece of salmon that has her name on it for a treat afterwards!
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#106281 - 09/19/07 04:48 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: NightHiker]
Shadow_oo00 Offline
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Registered: 08/21/07
Posts: 301
Loc: Pennsylvania, USA
I use Advantage on both my dogs, it works great, I tried the bath approach one with the same results as Blast, not going there again....LOL The ductape approach sounded interesting.
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#106283 - 09/19/07 04:59 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: Susan]
JCWohlschlag Offline
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Registered: 11/26/06
Posts: 724
Loc: Sterling, Virginia, United Sta...
Just be careful and observant if you start using Advantage or Frontline or whatever on your cat. The stuff is basically poison, and cats seem more sensitive to that stuff than dogs. I have a couple relatives with cats that cannot tolerate those treatments without getting very sick (one teetered on the brink of death… and correct dosages were administered).

Best way I know to test the waters is by using smaller doses for the first month(s), like quarter- or half-doses, at first to make sure the animal won’t have a reaction. Most people that have tried this report that even a half-dose keeps the fleas off for a full month. Only move up to a full dose if the animal shows no adverse reaction.
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#106284 - 09/19/07 04:59 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: AROTC]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
"DO NOT get the cheapo stuff from walmart or the feed store, that stuff is toxic to cats."

PLEASE pay attention to this advice! It's nasty stuff, and shouldn't even be allowed on the market.

Sue

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#106286 - 09/19/07 05:08 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: AROTC]
Leigh_Ratcliffe Offline
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Registered: 03/31/06
Posts: 1355
Loc: United Kingdom.
What caliber does this "Advantage" come in?

12ga?
20ga?
.410?


The trick with cat's is communication.

Cat's think that Humans are stupid. Thickest monkeys ever to fall out of a tree. Only a dumb monkey/human thinks that furry = harmless & cute. Cat's await the day when some Monkey Human Mug invents the paw operated can opener and T.V. remote control.

Then it's extermination time, Monkey Boys.........


You have to "communicate" certain facts of life to them. Like exterminate us and our allies The Canines will avenge us.
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#106291 - 09/19/07 05:33 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: Leigh_Ratcliffe]
Fiacharrey Offline
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Registered: 04/13/06
Posts: 30
I am reminded of something I got in an email some years ago. Here it is. How to give your cat a pill in 20 easy steps: http://www.nanceestar.com/CatPill.html
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#106299 - 09/19/07 05:47 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: Fiacharrey]
Leigh_Ratcliffe Offline
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Registered: 03/31/06
Posts: 1355
Loc: United Kingdom.
Love it.

Alternativly:

1) Garb yourself with chain-mail including gloves.
2) Pick cat up by the short & curlys.
3) Produce pill.
4) Explain to cat in reasonable tones that:
a) It can take this pill. Then it's tuna treat with canary with whipped cream to follow time.
or:
b) It can refuse...........



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#106305 - 09/19/07 06:42 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: Leigh_Ratcliffe]
benjammin Offline
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Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
I am no advocate for illicit drug use, but I did see a friend with a more relaxed attitude about such things get his cat so high that he could've skinned it and it would've done little more than lay there and whimper.

I guess Canabis really does a number on cats. Isn't it related to catnip anyways?
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#106306 - 09/19/07 06:45 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: Leigh_Ratcliffe]
Misanthrope Offline
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Registered: 09/08/05
Posts: 156
Loc: Chicago burbs
Blast, next time I would suggest preheating the bath water.

In the microwave.

With the cat in the water.

For about 15 minutes on high.
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#106309 - 09/19/07 06:49 PM Re: Hi, my name is Blast and I'm bleeding. [Re: Blast]
Frank2135 Offline
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Registered: 04/26/07
Posts: 266
Loc: Ohio, USA
Quote:
Did you know a cat trying to escape water can actually climb four feet up a tile wall?

-Blast


Yes, I did, actually. Unfortunately, they tend to prefer to climb up the person bathing them...and then down the other side.

Frank2135

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