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Thank you all for your help and advice. I have someone coming out to treat the carpets on Thursday and will look into the DE earth also. I am vacuuming every day moving all the furniture I can and still find fleas in the bag. I am seeing them on me less though and found a dead one on my male...

Go to a garden centre (or call around to health food stores and garden centres) to find some human/food grade diatomaceous earth. Sprinkle the DE over your carpeting and even some on your padded furniture. Sweep the DE down into the fibres. Human/food grade DE is totally safe around your...

I took my two 3 1/2 month old kittens in on July 8th and was told they had flea dirt on them. They were given Frontline and I was told to vaccum with a flea collar in the bag. I was brushing them with a flea comb and five days later, July 12th, I was still seeing live fleas on them. I called the...

I adopted two kittens over a month ago and this week at the vet they noticed flea dirt on them. They were both given Frontline and I was told to vacuum with a flea collar in the bag and then throw the bag away. I bought a flea comb and was finding fleas on them days later. I called the vet on...

Where can I buy the Lysine powder and how much do you use? They won't take it buy syringe or through food so I have been putting it on their paw. The male will lick it off however the female doesn't even care it is there. She ends up with a crustly maple smelling paw!! Thank you all for the help!

Thanks all so much for the help. I will try it on my finger tomorrow morning and see how that goes. I would love it if they did that since I have to mix the fortiflora in their wet food also. JIL05 I am also using Viralys Oral Gel. Did you put the full amount on their paw from the start or did...

My vet just prescribed L-Lysine for my two kittens who have a URI. They are almost 9 weeks old. She weighs 1.3 and he weighs 2lbs. She told me to give 1ml 2x a day. I got home and attempted to give it to them but I can barely suck up the L-Lysine into the syringe. I tried squeezing some into a...

Emmylou, I have tried a few different brands of dry food however they wouldn't touch them. They came from eating EVO dry so I stayed with that and Sophistacat wet which I was told they wouldn't really eat. I was sent home with the foods and they definitely walked away from the Sophistacat. I...

My 8 week old female, who was the runt of the litter, almost choked on a piece of dry food yesterday. She was able to get it up and I immediately took the food away. She ran off to chase her brother and I sat there with the shakes. I wanted to leave dry out for them when I am at work so they...

The kittens seem to be doing a little better. There poops are firming a bit (they look kind of like soft yarn). They are on an antibiotic as well as an eye ointment for the URI. The URI doesn't seem anywhere near as serious as your kitty was. The coccidia was what really had them so sick. For...

I just recently adopted two 8 week old kittens. After recently losing my other cat to cancer I was sad beyond belief....I don't even have words to compare it. So I was suprised when I found myself adopting these little guys. I was given the info of tests they had (FIV/FELV and fecal) both were...

I took a few days off from the computer. My old and very best friend has just had a good two days. He wants nothing to do with the prescription diets and nothing to do with me making him poached chicken/turkey with rice. I went to the premium pet store and bought a few different brands. Since he...

mews2much thank you for your response. I read through the link you posted several times. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like he has IBD. The only part that fit was throwing up and yet he isn't even throwing up food or bile it is this dark stuff that smells bad. Thanks again for your help.

My cat is 15 years old and was diagnosed 4 years ago with CRF. He is on a renal diet and gets subq fluids at home. He has been doing well until the last few months. I noticed his appetite was less and he was occasionally vomitting. I took him in to check his levels and they came back as "high...