As i sat down to write this i saw a flea on my sock. I tried to wipe him off of it but i just pushed him down inside of it.
I have a cat that i found at a light rail station back in September. It was 10 o'clock at night and i was heading home from being out with friends. I had my headphones on but i could hear the faint crying of a kitten. Then i saw his little head sticking out of the bushes near the ramp to get wheelchairs into the light rail. He was small with grey eyes and grey and black stripes. So i went over to him. He of course hid from me underneath the ramp where i could not get to him, but continued to cry. I stayed there for an hour before he was finally willing to come to me.
I wasnt planning on keeping him because i assumed that if he belonged to someone they would be putting up fliers for him. Two weeks passed and i saw no one looking for him.
That is how Hole came to be my feline companion.
So nine months later he is three times bigger, his grey has gotten some brown in it, and the little bugger is covered in fleas. I will assume that the fleas caught a ride on him the few times he was able to escape outside. I say escape, but he comes back on his own. He's his own master i wouldnt i stop him from leaving my care if he wished. Anyways back to the fleas. Here are ways i tried to get rid of them and failed. I was trying to save as much money as possible, but it just isnt possible to do so when dealing with those little devils.
1. Drowning - at first i did think that much of it because there were just a few of them. so as i saw them i would pick them up and down them in the sick. Now im drowning more that three a day that im not even getting off my cat.
2. The Flea Bath(or The Little Tsunami) - i've heard of them since i was little and assumed that they work, and maybe they do but i just didnt it wrong. i dont know how i could have done it wrong. bathe the animal, right? well this plan didnt work for me. even as i was drying him the fleas were just crawling around like they had not a care in the world. so i dipped him again. but the fleas came back.
3. The Vacuum - i was cleaning my room on saturday and i had the vacuum out to suck up as many as the pests as possible before i had a friend come over. then i though, fleas just stay on the surface of the cat right? so i could just suck them off. even to me this sounded much to easy to really work, but i had to find out. i grabbed Hole and pinned the sucker down. then brought out the hose and stuck it too him. maybe if he didnt struggle so hard i could have done a better job vacuuming him. either way all this did was make him hide from me for the rest of the weekend. i guess i was only able to give the fleas a mild breeze.
4. The Flea Collar - this was the first time i spent money to kill something. i went to the store and saw a seven dollar flea collar and then twenty dollar frontline stuff. seven dollars just sounded so much better. I put the collar on him the night i vaccumed him. That was over a week ago. The fleas still tickle me at night.
5. Frontline - i was all out of options. i want no more things moving on the surface of my body. today i was walking home from work i went to but food for Hole and there it was. I had to get it. I just put it on him so the fleas are still around. but soon oh so soon all of those little creatures from hell with be dead and i will be free.
The real lesson here: Dont be Cheap. Not with dates and not killing. It is always forth it to spend a little more for a nicer quicker job.
I have a cat that i found at a light rail station back in September. It was 10 o'clock at night and i was heading home from being out with friends. I had my headphones on but i could hear the faint crying of a kitten. Then i saw his little head sticking out of the bushes near the ramp to get wheelchairs into the light rail. He was small with grey eyes and grey and black stripes. So i went over to him. He of course hid from me underneath the ramp where i could not get to him, but continued to cry. I stayed there for an hour before he was finally willing to come to me.
I wasnt planning on keeping him because i assumed that if he belonged to someone they would be putting up fliers for him. Two weeks passed and i saw no one looking for him.
That is how Hole came to be my feline companion.
So nine months later he is three times bigger, his grey has gotten some brown in it, and the little bugger is covered in fleas. I will assume that the fleas caught a ride on him the few times he was able to escape outside. I say escape, but he comes back on his own. He's his own master i wouldnt i stop him from leaving my care if he wished. Anyways back to the fleas. Here are ways i tried to get rid of them and failed. I was trying to save as much money as possible, but it just isnt possible to do so when dealing with those little devils.
1. Drowning - at first i did think that much of it because there were just a few of them. so as i saw them i would pick them up and down them in the sick. Now im drowning more that three a day that im not even getting off my cat.
2. The Flea Bath(or The Little Tsunami) - i've heard of them since i was little and assumed that they work, and maybe they do but i just didnt it wrong. i dont know how i could have done it wrong. bathe the animal, right? well this plan didnt work for me. even as i was drying him the fleas were just crawling around like they had not a care in the world. so i dipped him again. but the fleas came back.
3. The Vacuum - i was cleaning my room on saturday and i had the vacuum out to suck up as many as the pests as possible before i had a friend come over. then i though, fleas just stay on the surface of the cat right? so i could just suck them off. even to me this sounded much to easy to really work, but i had to find out. i grabbed Hole and pinned the sucker down. then brought out the hose and stuck it too him. maybe if he didnt struggle so hard i could have done a better job vacuuming him. either way all this did was make him hide from me for the rest of the weekend. i guess i was only able to give the fleas a mild breeze.
4. The Flea Collar - this was the first time i spent money to kill something. i went to the store and saw a seven dollar flea collar and then twenty dollar frontline stuff. seven dollars just sounded so much better. I put the collar on him the night i vaccumed him. That was over a week ago. The fleas still tickle me at night.
5. Frontline - i was all out of options. i want no more things moving on the surface of my body. today i was walking home from work i went to but food for Hole and there it was. I had to get it. I just put it on him so the fleas are still around. but soon oh so soon all of those little creatures from hell with be dead and i will be free.
The real lesson here: Dont be Cheap. Not with dates and not killing. It is always forth it to spend a little more for a nicer quicker job.
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