slightly sick cat

[redbird]

julian_tiger has been much less bouncy and energetic for several days. This morning, cattitude called the vet, who said "bring him in."

Our cat has fleas. They are of a kind that do not also bite humans; the diagnostics were not sufficient to determine whether they're dog-and-cat fleas, or mouse-and-cat fleas, but given that we haven't seen any recent evidence of mousing, it seems most likely that one of us brought a flea in from a dog we petted in the park.

Fortunately, we caught this quite early. Julian has to have anti-flea medicine rubbed into his fur once a month (it is now in my PDA as a monthly appointment), and we will need to do some cleaning. A new vacuum cleaner may be called for.

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[callunav.livejournal.com]

My experience - which I think I remember getting confirmed by a vet, but maybe I'm making that up - has been that if there is a cat or dog in the house, I get few or no bites (and I'm one of the people you invite to picnics so that all the bugs will go after me and leave everyone else alone), but that if the preferred diet animal is away for a day or more, the fleas all see the virtue in making due with an all-human diet, and dig in.