My cat developed bald patches on here ears. We did a telephone consultation with the vet who suggested we treat for fleas and to
Use advocate which they supplied. This was a different vet as we’ve used a few recently, our local one closed last summer, the one we used for her most recent jabs is closed Friday afternoon, and this is the one we take our rats to. It was a telephone consult and they checked her history with me and her weight. She’s 3.2kg and they have the product for cats less than 4kg.
I put it on her last night and this morning she’s quite lethargic. Normally she sleeps downstairs over night and wakes up when DH does and gets into bed with me. Today she didn’t come upstairs. I carried her up and she normally resists a little then relaxes. Today she hardly resisted but remained quite tense in an uncomfortable way rather than a scared way: her body feels sort of hard all over when she’s like this, hunched rather than coiled ready to leap out of my arms. She was slow later getting off my bed and took her time to jump up to sit in the curtains on the radiator. She’s still there now 30 mins later. Which is normal enough, but she’s not gone out yet and normally she’s rush out to do than then come back to sit on the radiator. She’s eaten the food left for her overnight. Some was left but that’s normal for her.
She’s a 10 year old moggy that we’ve had since she was 12 weeks. No previous reaction to front line and I think she’s had advocate before and been fine but not certain.
I was thinking of just keeping an eye for now. Too late to wash it off her and that will stress her out enormously: I’ve never washed a cat apart from one that got covered in bin juices and oil years ago.