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My cats were recently old enough to be dosed with flea medicine, but I'm having trouble with one of the kittens. Her fur repelled  the flea medicine. Here's what I mean by that: the medicine ran along the top of the fur, but never reached the skin. Does anyone else have a cat with this problem? Can anyone give me ideas on what to do about it?
 
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I always make little parts in my cats' fur then put the medication on the skin. It's a lot easier do this with someone else holding the cat though.
 
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As pushylady indicated, parting the hair at the base of the skull, over nape of neck, toward shoulders, and applying the topical parasiticide directly to her skin will better ensure sebaceous oil uptake in her sebaceous glands for a timed release lasting 30 days.

Are you certain it wasn't on her skin? As the hair shaft goes down to each follicle, thus medication whicks along the hair, to settle in the sebaceous glands of skin.

Seen any flease already?  What topical medication do you use? If you have seen fleas, are there deceased, unmoving adult fleas now?
 
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puck said:
 
As pushylady indicated, parting the hair at the base of the skull, over nape of neck, toward shoulders, and applying the topical parasiticide directly to her skin will better ensure sebaceous oil uptake in her sebaceous glands for a timed release lasting 30 days.

Are you certain it wasn't on her skin? As the hair shaft goes down to each follicle, thus medication whicks along the hair, to settle in the sebaceous glands of skin.

Seen any flease already?  What topical medication do you use? If you have seen fleas, are there deceased, unmoving adult fleas now?
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To answer your questions in order--yes. I've bathed the cat in question, and the fur acts the same for water too. (I really should have anticipated it with the flea medicine.) Yes--I've seen fleas. Her infestation got so bad before I noticed (because, like an idiot, I assumed the wet fur meant the medicine working) that fleas were actually jumping off  her. No, prior to using pusylady's advice, there were no dead, unmoving adult fleas. 
 
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