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| 915.1 | | HELIX::SKALTSIS | Deb | Fri Jul 14 1995 07:33 | 7 |
| Tapeworms run a cycle, and worming is only effective if it is done at
the right time in the cycle, like if you see actual worms in the stool.
Also, worms usually indicates that there are/have been fleas. Since
your cats go out, do they either have a flea collar, or get powered
regularly?
Deb
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| 915.2 | Mine too!!!!!1 | WMOIS::FLECK_S | | Fri Jul 14 1995 10:00 | 13 |
| I too have this spraying problem with my spayed female cat.
Except mine smells! She has been to the vet and was diagnosed as
having some sort of behavioral problem. The only fix they said
was to make her an outdoor cat and only let her in the house when
I'm going to be there. She only started doing this about 1 year
ago, and she'll be 3 this summer. Just yesterday when I let her
outside, she went directly to the foundation around the house, up
went the tail, and you know the rest! We do have a few other cats
in the neighborhood that visit my yard frequently, so maybe she is
marking her territory. Who knows?! I have seriously thought about
giving her away due to the uncleanliness of doing it in the house,
especially when I can smell it but can't find it! As for now she
is monitored while in the house. Sue
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| 915.3 | | MTCLAY::DOUGLAS | chills, thrills, flying circus! | Fri Jul 14 1995 10:28 | 14 |
| RE .1
I don't use powders or flea colars, but they do get shampooed and
flea dipped. I also bomb the house regularly since I have a dog that
is flea allergic.
RE .2
Well, now I can say that I know of another female cat that
does this. In all my years, I thought I knew alot about cats
but this totally amazed me!
t
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| 915.4 | | WRKSYS::MACKAY_E | | Fri Jul 14 1995 12:00 | 12 |
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I find flea and tick collars indispensable - it prevents the
kitties from getting bit, thus lowers the chance of tapeworms.
Bugs don't like to hitchhike on a kitty with a collar, either
(ticks are killed on contact with the collar), so the bugs don't
get inside the house. I see shampoos and dips as remedies and
collars are preventions. I have not tried powder on the kitties.
I buy the collars from the vet and they work very well.
Eva
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| 915.5 | Eva's right. | AXPBIZ::SWIERKOWSKIS | Now that we're organized, what's next? | Fri Jul 14 1995 15:03 | 27 |
| > I buy the collars from the vet and they work very well.
Yes, be sure to follow this advice from Eva; don't buy the collars from
the grocery store, etc. The ones from the vet contain IGR (I think that's
Insect Growth Retardent) and they do something to the flea to trash the
reproductive cycle. I don't have the label or brochure with me, but I think
it causes the fleas to produce mutants that can't reproduce. The vet will
also have bombs, spray and powder with IGR. I've avoided the shampoo
because of the serious warning label; I use a milder shampoo instead. I
also haven't used the bombs since we had Fleabusters come out in May (you
can use Jan's Borax method instead but it's a back-breaker!). You absolutely
have to get rid of the fleas for the tapeworm med to do any good.
Strongid (or something comparable) is used on young kittens for a different
kind of worm (I'm not sure which). Normally, you don't have to use
it when they get older.
Since I just went through all this with my 5, I know it's pricey. I can use
the pills for 4 of them (the 5th one has to have the injection cause there's
no hope she'll let me pill her). Since the vet can put all 4 on one prescrip-
tion, I save a lot; the cost of the 8 pills was about the same as one
injection. Of course, I do still bear the wounds from Wednesday night's
pilling (and everyone is mad at me now). It's a good thing they're so cute!
SQ
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| 915.6 | | WRKSYS::MACKAY_E | | Tue Aug 08 1995 12:22 | 8 |
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From what I understand, most kittens are born with round worms. The
worms stay "dormant" inside adult cats and get activated by stress
like pregnancy. The worms then get passed onto the kittens, who have
to be de-wormed.
Eva
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| 915.7 | My female sprays also | ROMEOS::BUTLER_LA | | Tue Aug 15 1995 13:43 | 17 |
| My female cat also sprays. This is my first experience with a female
doing this after years of owning cats. She is also a "hang the bottom out
of the box" pooper - didn't matter how big a box, how clean it was or what
type of litter we used etc.
She was exclusively indoors only, but the spraying became too much. No
medical reason could explain why she did this. So after a very patient
husband had his hockey equipment sprayed (big dollars btw) she was
sentenced to outdoors only (she would spray on a whim and we could no
longer risk having our new furniture ruined).
Sorry no solutions, but most sincere empathy.
LB
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| 915.8 | | HELIX::SKALTSIS | Deb | Tue Aug 15 1995 14:15 | 5 |
| RE: -1
Did you try a covered litter box?
Deb
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| 915.9 | | ROMEOS::BUTLER_LA | | Wed Aug 16 1995 10:25 | 11 |
| RE: -1
Oh yes, we tried covered, uncovered, with doors that flap and without.
We tried lots of litter, regular amount of litter and just a bit of
litter. I guess she just liked her tail in the breeze. We ended up
putting the box in a bathtub that wasn't being used. Made clean up
easier. But this, along with her spraying problem, proved too much for
us.
Laura
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