How and what to remove fleas in cats

Many owners of a mustache and a hairy miracle, deciding how to remove fleas from a cat, often try to find a tool that will help solve the problem forever. Of course, such searches are doomed to failure from the beginning: even a tool that provides complete disposal of cat fleas, cannot guarantee that in a week or a month the pet will not pick up parasites on the street, or the insect will not drop on it by chance, being brought from the street on the host's clothes.

But to save a cat from fleas once is quite simple: today for this there is a huge amount of various tools and preparations that work quite effectively and are available to almost everyone.

All the same operation to rid the pet of parasites should be carried out in several steps, each of which is important and necessary.

So, even before breeding fleas in cats, you need to determine exactlythat the pet is worried about the fleas, and not other parasites ...

 

Step 1. Determine that the cat is really a flea.

Among the other skin parasites of cats, fleas are distinguished by several features by which it can be accurately determined that they are.

Symptom 1 - animal itching and constant body combing on the back and sides. If a cat is disturbed by ticks, it tries to comb it out behind the ears or bite off parasites in the groin - this is where ticks bite more often. In the case of fleas, this is not observed: they bite with the same hunt for any part of the body.

Symptom 2 - excrement and flea eggs on the body of the animal. To notice them, you should push the wool and carefully look at the skin of your pet. If there are small black dots (excrement) or white (eggs) between the hairs, it means that the adult parasites in the cat are exactly present.

Symptom 3 - the appearance of noticeable skin irritations. Flea bites cause itching and a local allergic reaction in cats, and in some animals they can lead to dermatitis, eczema and, in the rarest cases, anemia. To remove fleas in cats, of course, should be long before the onset of such symptoms.

... 5 (allergic dermatitis for flea bites)

Sign 4 - visual detection of the fleas themselves. Fleas - insects easily recognizable, though very small. They have a rounded body up to half a millimeter long and weakly visible long legs, with which they can make very large jumps.

It is possible to detect them on the cat's body by parting the fur or combing out the animal. In addition, these insects will actively jump off the pet while swimming - no other parasites can do this.

Many know how to catch cat flea, but it must be borne in mind that in addition to fleas, there are also their eggs, so that it is unlikely that you can hand over all parasites by hand.

The presence of at least one of the above signs suggests that now you should start thinking about how and how to get fleas in a cat. To do this, choose an effective and safe drug.

 

Step 2. Apply an effective remedy for fleas

Today, the removal of fleas in cats is done with the help of means that differ in both their appearance and method of action. There is one thing in common in them: against insects in all these products, powerful enough insecticides act - insect poisons - which at the same time are not too dangerous for the cats themselves.

All these funds are divided into several groups.

 

Flea drops

Flea drops - These are popular today tools that combine efficiency and ease of use. The composition of these drugs is an aqueous solution of an insecticide, which not only kills insects, but also scares them with smell. Due to this, the application of a few drops to the neck or back area provides a stampede of parasites from the animal's body.

Before dealing with fleas in cats with drops, you must first read the instructions for using the drug itself: drops can be applied in different ways and be quite toxic for kittens or pregnant cats.

The most popular of the drops today are the following:

• Hartz is an American remedy that is very effective even against flea larvae, due to which it is often used after the use of less expensive preparations, with the help of which adults are destroyed.
• Drops of Frontline Spot he Kat, completely rid the pet of fleas within 24 hours.
• Bayer Lawyer, which is not only fighting fleas in cats, but also preventing helminthic invasions and tick infestation.
• The leopard, a domestic remedy, is remarkable in that, unlike its foreign counterparts, it is applied not to the withers of the animal, but in several places along the spine.

Fighting fleas in cats with drops is the best solution for those animals that mostly live indoors, but travel with the owners for a few months or weeks to the country or to another place where they spend a lot of time in nature. Processing a cat with drops here should be done literally several times over the entire period in order to protect it from infection and rid it of those parasites that have already managed to attack it.

 

Flea collars

The optimal solution for animals who regularly and in large quantities are on the street. They protect the cat for two months, have low toxicity and help well in cases when it is necessary to remove fleas from a pregnant cat. Their main drawback is the possibility of developing dermatitis in an animal around its neck.

The important advantages include the fact that with such a collar a pet walking freely on the street is protected not only from fleas, but also from teams that catch homeless animals: the presence of any collar on an animal is evidence that it has owners and is not homeless.

 

Cat Sprays

This is a kind of radical way. Wool sprays are very toxic for the animal itself, and they must be applied in full accordance with the instructions and only for cats that are not in contact with kittens or other cats.

It is forbidden to use sprays for nursing cats. As a rule, they are used to combat parasites only in severely neglected cases.

Sprays are popular mostly the same brand as the brand drops - Hartz, Frontline, Bayer, Bolfo - drugs from the same manufacturer contain the same insecticides, and therefore work well in different forms of release.

 

Flea shampoos

In cats, this type flea products caught less than that of dogs, but, nevertheless, is used quite often. The main advantage of shampoos is their safety. Redeemed pet completely gets rid of fleas, and after the main bathing procedure, thorough washing of the wool follows, as a result of which the shampoo is completely washed off.

After bathing the cat can not lick the drug itself, and also her kittens will not be able to do it.

Popular shampoos are Advantage, Advantics, Lawyer, Russian 4 with a tail.When deciding what better to wash a cat for fleas, you should ask the owners of cats of the same breed: for long-haired animals, more effective shampoos will differ from those for shorthaired ones.

 

Anti-Flea Injections

Flea shots for cats - a tool that allows you to quickly remove the parasites, but difficult to use. Few owners of the owners can make injections on their own, and for the sake of this the animal is taken to the clinic for no reason.

However, injections help to remove fleas from a cat, even actively communicating with highly infected animals. Moreover, these other animals will not get poisoned from the treated pet (which can happen, for example, in the case of using sprays or, more rarely, flea drops).

Flea injections should not be given to lactating and pregnant cats: the active ingredient of the drug may act on the kittens.

 

Flea Pills

Flea pills work in almost the same way as injections, but are easier to use. They allow you to effectively remove insects, but often cause side effects in animals, for which cat owners dislike them.

When deciding to remove fleas from a cat with pills, you should consult a veterinarian.For each agent in a particular animal, there may be hypersensitivity, and what is most suitable for the descriptions may have individual intolerance.

 

Step 3. Eliminate the effects of infection

The main problems in infecting cats with fleas are:

• itch
• allergic reactions and skin diseases
• helminthic invasions (fleas are carriers of helminth eggs).

They all require different approaches to treatment.

To get rid of itching, baths are used on special herbal infusions or with the addition of sedatives, with point lesions - skin treatment with analgesics. In case of allergic reactions, depending on the degree of their manifestation, use either special antihistamines, or complex sedatives.

Diseases of the skin require treatment in a veterinary clinic, and measures to combat worms are regular etching them.

 

Step 4. Prevention of subsequent infections.

As all physicians assure - and veterinarians including - prevention of the disease is always easier and more effective than its treatment. If you do not give fleas the opportunity to infect a pet, then in the future you will not have to solve the problem and how to get them out.

Prevention measures:

• preventing pet contact with street and clearly infected animals;
• regularly treat boiling water of the animal's household appliances - bedding, toilet, sleeping basket;
• at least once a month in the apartment to carry out wet cleaning with the addition of insecticoacaricides to the water;
• avoid contact with other animals, and on arrival home - wash hands, shake out clothes and shoes outside the apartment.

To follow such rules is quite troublesome, but the result will be the cleanliness of the pet and the absence of problems with infecting it with fleas.

 

What is more effective: flea sprays, insecticide collars or drops?