Oh no, kitten is covered in fleas!

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How have I not noticed?!

Managed to bring appointment forward to this afternoon. Poor thing!! Iv just found two on her head 😭

What do I do?!

Pick them off and squish them. You can get indorex off the vets while your there.

Yes you will need to treat the house as well as the cat. Then treat monthly with decent stuff from vet.

It’s making my itch 😩she’s been sleeping on a wool blanket that cost a lot, am I going to have to chuck it? We have wooden floors so will that help with not having many? She’s only been here since Tuesday so what’s the chances of the downstairs being infested?

I wouldn’t chuck it, there will be a solution to wool and fleas somewhere on the internet.

We’ve been to the vet and he couldn’t see any, just the poop. He said she’s too little for anything as she’s only 700g so she has to wait until her next injection. I had to just keep combing her 😩

Where has she come from with fleas and so little?

A “friend” that I rescued her from. I saw her and couldn’t let her go.

Washing the blanket in hot water with a washing powder will kill them. Keep giving her a good comb with the flea comb.
Vac all areas and the skirting boards, empty the vac into a bag and put this straight in the bin and spray round with Indorex.
You have to do this to get rid of them, you really don't want an infestation. Also cheap flea sprays don't work, you need the Indorex.

Iv got one out!

The vet said he couldn’t see any and she actually wasn’t as “dirty” as I thought she was. I only saw one earlier and thought she would be riddled but I can’t see anymore?! Can you just have one flea? She was apparently done on Monday.

How can she have been treated for fleas if the vet said she’s too small to treat?

Unlikely to just have one, also the eggs will be in your house now. Look up the flea cycle and it tells you what happens.

Exactly 😑 I think the woman I rescued her from just chucked on some stuff from b&m

I have just had exactly the same problem - vet covered her in a frontline spray, which is safe for kittens. I also used indorex in all the rooms she’d been in. Fingers crossed I haven’t seen any fleas

It's fleas not ebola!
You don't need to chuck anything. Just use a monthly flea treatment once she's big enough.
Fleas are a bit of a pest but they don't spread diseases (well, apart from bubonic plague! ) and all pets are absolutely bound to get them at some point.

Whatever you do don't use Bob Martins flea drops, they have killed pets before. I'd be ringing the vets back and saying you need to have her treated.

Christ, she’s tiny - how old is she?

For context, I’ve just spent a week anxiously feeding up a sickly 8-week kitten that had dropped below 800g. That litter were all flea-sprayed by the vet at 6 weeks.

Order some flea collars (for the future) and also leave one in the hoover bag to kill any you hoover up.

She’s 10 weeks. Her mum was very small so I think she takes after her