I'm so stupid.. Help?

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Dish soap will remove oil. Well, any decent pet shampoo should, too, but dish soap will do it faster. Don't use any kind of soap with citrus oil in it.

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purrrline said:

Okay. Thank you. How do I apply it? do I just dab a cloth in some then rub it on her?

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First, don't put oil on your cat again. Or cider vinegar. She's not a salad!

I used Palmolive. This is what I posted earlier for someone else:

"Do it in kitchen sink. Put a towel on the bottom of the sink so her paws won't slide all over. Thoroughly wet her with nice warm water. Put a teeny weeny dab of dish detergent on her fur & thoroughly wash her. Add more detergent if necessary but you don't want tons of soap to rinse off. Rinse her off & towel dry her as much as you can. Do all this as quickly as you can."

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purrrline said:

Okay I'll try and do that, thank you.
But anyways, the vinegar is very useful for killing fleas and she kept on constantly scartching near her neck, after I bathed her a flea or two came out and died.
Although, I didn't need to put so much on.

Hope that wasn't rude, just thought I'd clarify my intentions.

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Not rude at all. Never heard of using cider vinegar. But the smell would annoy me.

We use Revolution, which is the best thing for fleas/mites.

If you bathed her in a tub of water and added vinegar and oil to the water....Just bathe again, this time with dish soap.

I would think she wouldn't be that difficult to bathe.  I say that because you put a lot of vinegar on her already, and she took it.  I find that amazing.

If my cats get even a whiff of vinegar, they RUN!!!

I would say, if she has alot of oil on her fur, you might want to start with a very soapy wash cloth then work it in well, adding a small amt of water until it lathers up.

Of course it will need plenty of rinsing, be sure the water stays warm enough but not hot so kitty doesn't get cold.

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Primula said:

First, don't put oil on your cat again. Or cider vinegar. She's not a salad!

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I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing!

On a more serious note, be sure and really really dry her coat as much as you can.

If you can't buy flea treatment, you can comb her regularly to check for fleas. I use a pet metal comb with really tight teeth, but you can use a human lice comb, works well too. If she goes outside, then flea treatments are better, it will keep the fleas from infesting your house too.

About the dander, what kind of food do you give her? My cat Sparrow had lots, and as soon as we put him on a mostly wet diet, they were gone.

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Dander can be caused by different things (food, stress for examples) but moisture in their diet is always a good thing and can help.  I feed wet and dry.  My girls have gone through some health issues and with those have become "selective" with what they will eat.  I try for grain free wet foods (the Fancy Feast classics, no fish or beef because they don't agree with them.) and purina naturals dry.  They USED to eat a better quality dry; but after a lot of back and forth with the vet during their health crises; this is what they would eat so its what they get.  

We have a whole Nutrition forum you can check out; but in the end what you feed (or your Dad, if he is ultimately the one with the purse strings) will be a personal decision based on what you can get and what your cats can/will eat.  Its something to research and talk over with your dad or whoever buys the food.  You could even feed the wet just a few times a week.  My girls had to be slowly introduced to the wet.  it was rich for them at first.

Lyzzie said:

I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing!

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L'humour Anglais!

Oui j'adore!