Puccini isn't well at all

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

Fine yesterday , brought me a shrew first thing but didn't eat his breakfast and hasn't eaten since and can't tempt him with anything.

More worryingly he's been curled up in his basket since lunch time and can barely muster up a purr when I stroke him let alone any opera singing

I'm taking him to the vet first thing.

I'm sooo worried about him

Interesting, the vet mentioned a tablet that could be ordered in, they don't stock it, if the Advocate doesn't work. My sister uses Comfortist tablets, says they're really effective and safe for the cat. Had a Google they're available in the uk too.

Injection sounds very interesting!

I don't even consider tablets. My lad would take an injection fine - he's too busy flirting with the vet to notice - but a pill is a different matter entirely.

I think I could do the wrap in towel business and he'd get used to it pretty quickly. My mum's cat is amazing,hardly makes a fuss at all - she says it's from having cats when there weren't spot on treatments and the vet gave you pills and you had to get it down then!

I've just seen the photo. My goodness. That face. So happy and gorgeous.

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Program injections are once every six months.

Do you do it yourself or does the vet do it?

Much happiness at seeing Puccini looking well and happy. Overly invested? Moi?

I would have thought the vet would administer the flea injections. They like to see the cat in person in order to prescribe/give out prescription only flea treatments.

Vet does it.

Do you need to use it in conjunction with a spot on treatment Fluffy?

Yes.

I'll talk to her about it, quite like the sound of non breeding fleas!

Just had a comb through- no sign of anything...might be winning the flea war!

You probably are.

Constant vigilance from now on though, I fear. Not that His Lordship will likely mind given how he's reacting to the grooming.

I'm going to talk to the vet about the injection as there are some really manky looking cats round here- got a feeling Puccini originated from that gang and I bet they're all flea ridden, poor things!

He could be using a 'flea source' in summer, particularly. (I'm thinking a nice warm dry patch of ground or somewhere similar where some of the flea-bedevilled ones hang out and where he might be sitting also. We had one in a house many moons ago.) That's why the constant treatment is almost certainly necessary - so that if he picks up blighters at any stage of their lives, their doom is certain.

Urghhh!!!!

It happens.

With us, it was a pile of old (sisal or something) sacks in a potting shed - perfect snoozing place for any cat who was wandering by. (The shed was easy to access.) It could be in a garage though - some old carpet offcuts lying in a corner or something.

We got rid of the sacks before bringing the problem under control.

Such a perfect pic of Happy Kitty. He looks the essence of relaxation.

When it comes to fleas, Mr C always flatly denies knowledge. But he loves being de-fleaed, funnily enough.

So, no sign of fleas- phew and Applaws is FANTASTIC, he loves it and starts purring when I put it in his bowlHe's leaving a lot of his wet food now and seems to be going onto the Applaws by choice. I've been putting water on it too to get liquid in him.

Crashed out after a bowl of Applaws!

Contentacat.

Note strategic placement of tea towel

I don't feed any dry food if it helps? Ollie is just on natures menu pouches really
He was on raw but went off it there's a supplement called Felini complete and you just feed it with meat, it gives all the bone/taurine etc etc
I occasionally give him some turkey mince or a raw chicken wing which he likes

I thought raw chicken was a no no? Am I cooking unnecessarily?

Just pulled 2 more fleabies off of him ARGHHH!!!!