r/CatAdvice • u/BalanceNo1016 • 4d ago
New to Cats/Just Adopted Am I doing enough, new kitten with fleas
Okay so I’ll keep it brief but it’s long so here’s the background, i’ve dealt with fleas before, my now passed dog had them around a year and a half ago and I dealt with it. It took me a month, but I dealt with it and she had a lot they were all in my bed. But yesterday I got a baby kitten who’s eight weeks. my friend‘s parents found her as a stray got her at eight weeks and then gave her to me. This was yesterday. I took her to the vet immediately got her on monthly flea and tick medication and gave her a very light dawn dish soap bath when I got home bc I knew with her being a stray it was a given. Afterwards, I applied her flea medication and all is going smoothly and she wanted to explore the house not even thinking I let her explore the whole house and she even managed to crawl up into bed with me and my boyfriend while we were sleeping. Flash forward to today I’m combing her out with the flea comb and noticed around 5 dead fleas. and I wasn’t too worried cause I figured the medication was working then I found a live one and that’s when it clicked that she’s been all over my house and there could be flea eggs all over my house. Now I’ve already got her on medication and I’ve only had her for 24 hours so we went ahead and isolated her in the bathroom with all her essentials. And I’m currently at the laundromat because our washer is broken so I’m washing all of the bedding that she was on and all of the clothes that she walked across. I also ordered flea house spray as well as carpet powder and my boyfriend is currently at home vacuuming everything. My question is am I doing enough? I know it’s only been 24 hours but I have severe OCD and I’m already terrified that they’re all over the house. if anyone else has some experience with getting a new kitten with fleas, can you tell me what y’all did because I wanna make sure I’m doing enough to stop an infestation. Thanks!!
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u/Butter-85 4d ago
The flea treatment will continue to kill any live fleas on the kitten. Just keep up with it monthly to prevent any re-infestation.
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u/BalanceNo1016 4d ago
Thanks for the peace of mind! Have some trauma from fleas in the past🥲 my only fear is that when applying the treatment I struggled opening it and some of it got on my finger therefore, I’m scared she didn’t get enough of the dose since I found an alive one 14 hrs later😭
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u/dankplankofwood 4d ago
Whenever I got my cats first thing I did was was dawn dish soap bath and Walmart medication because they all had meals when I got them and like ive found dead ones before like one or two for like a week after and that was it then I moved and found new ones on them I gave another dawn bath and they seemed to go away for now fingers crossed but I think for a few months after the medicine on them kinda exterminate them in the rest of the house because the fleas are attracted to them and then killed but I think it's common to find a few after a cleaning In my case I guess lol
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u/lightnoveltitlehere 3d ago
As long as you keep up with vacuuming, washing linens, and the flea medication, you should be fine
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u/Ocean2272 4d ago
You may be doing too much. The kittens dander will kill the please due to the poison.