A new tactic.

Oh Doll-face,

Although as a whole, I think our flea problem is getting better, the battle is starting to take a serious toll on one of our Privates.  L is the most infected of our bunch, sadly he's the only one of the lot that never goes outside thus our baby with the least exposure is being hit the hardest.  We can't have this, it's not fair to him.

Also, in light of Bella and Charlie being due for a rabies shot, we turn to the vet, for L's sake. He's got himself in a vicious cycle.  We don't know if he itched first, or he got himself a scab playing with Killer (which is actually very likely we noticed his scabs appearing before the flea outbreak) but he has had a trend of fresh scabs on his neck and under his chin, which is fresh blood that draws the fleas to him.  Then because scabs are itchy and fleas are itchy he scratches... and he has no self control over his claws so he opens wounds and then more fleas flock.

The poor thing.  Last night I attacked him with a flea comb and my first couple of swipes just pulled out lots of dry skin and flea dirt, but then quickly I started to comb out fleas.  I have not seen THIS many fleas since we brought Killer home from the farm as a baby.  He sat so still for me too and even began to purr as we pulled out fleas combing his entire neck and chin area.  I'm thankful he at least realized that we were helping him. The other cats won't sit for that comb at all.. but also they don't have nearly as many as he does.

So this morning your brother called in another General, the vet, and set an appointment for Bella and Charlie and while he's there he'll be getting some heavy hitting prescription flea medicine.  I imagine that means tomorrow EVERYONE will get another bath and then get medicated.  Over this weekend your brother and I will diligently be moving furniture and vacuuming to eradicate the buggers from our house to try and keep the infections from sticking around.

Update: It has been 24 hours since  wrote the first half of this blog.  We went to the vet and everyone got a Flea pill, by the end of the night we had no more live fleas. Yay!  Also Today Bella got a bath to kill off eggs (the pill kills fleas once they bite and lasts a month in the system.. this means eggs will still hatch but fleas will die upon first bite) and she got a new collar, because I said so.

Right now I'm eating turkey pot pie that your brother made from scratch, and he is tipsy from having too much wine. If I stop updating after tonight it's because I died due to eating your brothers drunken cooking.

Love ya and miss ya!