#flea medication

[ask-a-vetblr]

Hi! Hope your holidays went well! So I tried to put topical flea prevention on my cat but the tube broke and more of it got on me than her. I wiped what I could on her but it certainly wasn't a full dose. I tried to call my vet but apparently he was unavailable and the receptionist was supposed to call me back with an answer but never did. Oh well But hey, this might be useful information for others to learn, too, so here's the question: Assuming you weren't able to get a full dose of monthly treatment on an animal, how long should you wait before treating them again with a full dose? Or how would you handle this situation yourself?

Hello, Sueanoi here.

My personal recommendation when this happens to my client is : for a month-long spot-on, I'd say a repeat is safe no sooner than 2 weeks interval.

Every 2 weeks is the recommendation frequency for ear mite treatment dose. i have no data for more frequent use. So i go by 2 weeks, for a repeat like this.

[monsoon-of-art]

no art fight today, I had to bathe a flea-ridden kitten and that shits exhausting

[soft--dogs]

trying to make time to draw more stuff for myself, even if it's just silly doodles :3c honestly think that's been part of my brain problem lately, too much work art not enough me art. doing anything has just been such an effort lately i don't have any energy to do much else besides work :/ hoping once taxes are over things will be a bit easier >w<

[talentforlying]

thinking about john's multitude of short-lived, often quickly-abandoned apartments for some reason, so a couple details:

although you might expect to find a very wizard-y interior to any place he's currently living at — you know, grimoires, skulls, dust, clutter, etc. — his flats actually tend to be fairly spartan in terms of decor; they've even been accused of looking modern, here and there. he just moves too frequently to really settle in & accrue Things, and has so often had to simply up & leave everything he currently owned behind (with very little chance of getting any of it back) that he no longer attaches much meaning to household objects.

besides the consistent presence of at least one bookshelf with at least 12 books on it, and a sad sprig of garden sage that miraculously hasn't died yet, the one exception to his lack of personal touch is his extensive collection of records + tapes, all of which he has repeatedly & methodically tracked down and bought / bid / traded / stolen / threatened for / blackmailed for / simply taken back whenever an enterprising landlord or new tenant left him the opportunity to do so. his record player itself has never needed to be taken back, since it has always mysteriously vanished from whatever flat he's leaving and mysteriously appeared wherever he's staying; it's convenient like that. his 10th anniversary walkman, however, frequently goes missing, only to turn up again later in a place he KNOWS he checked when he's least expecting it.

lack of home decor isn't to say he doesn't own much, mind: the bulk of his personal possessions — assorted occult paraphernalia, blackmail documentation, miscellaneous crap from his mucous membrane days, and anything he is able to take with him from past flats — are usually stored off-site, in a secure location that can't easily be tied back to him. this guy's been accused of being a satanic killer on multiple occasions, he knows better than to keep all the real shit out where anyone can just swan in and see it.

currently, this storage location (which i lovingly call occult shit central) is an abandoned inner london storefront + adjoining flat that was formerly his old friend ray monde's shop and home, called brick-a-brac antiques. it's decidedly cozier than the last place, (in that there are chairs, plural,) and has fewer bear traps laid out in anticipation of unlucky thieves; in fact, if a person were to visit without already knowing where constantine actually lives, it'd be easy to mistake it as his expectedly-wizardy flat. it's not an ideal location for an occult shit central, too close to the heart of the city and too close to people to avoid drumming up suspicion should constantine attempt any sort of ritual inside, but until chas finally quits ducking the paperwork and signs over his storage lot (which he may or may not be dragging his feet on out of pure resentment for having to do it at all) ray's place is the best option there is.

constantine's previous (and future) storage location was a lock-up in streatham that chas had been letting him use (see: all but surrendered to him entirely) since he got out of ravenscar, but after constantine's sister died, john decided he was done with magic and, in a spontaneous fit of rage, burnt the place down with everything but a few necessities still inside. he regretted this later, when he inevitably returned to the occult scene after just over a year away, and spent a lot of time calling in favors / hypnotizing arson inspectors to try and put together an inventory of everything he'd lost.

in the nearly 20 years since the fire, he's managed to replace or find substitutes for about 2/3 of what he had (occult-wise), and gather enough fresh dirt / do enough favors / orchestrate enough compromising situations to accumulate a little over 1/4 of the political / interpersonal power he once maintained. ( the lack of success in the latter being, in part, because people now in power aren't as familiar with his name & reputation as they once were; in part because people just don't believe in magic as much as they used to, or were otherwise bought by hell / heaven / other parties a LONG time ago; and in part because he's come to absolutely fucking despise most politicians / people in power more than he is willing to work with them, or more than he is able to plausibly believe they won't try to drop him at the first opportunity. )

you would be hard-pressed to find a landlady/landlord that speaks kindly of this man. if he wasn't kicked out for suspicious smells / disturbing noises / sudden infestations / suspected satanic activity, then it's likely that he abruptly up and disappeared in the middle of the night, with no warning and no rent. (on a few occasions, this vanishing act also coincided conspicuously with a gruesome death on the premises, sometimes of the landlady/landlord themselves, although no one's ever been able to prove anything.) frankly it's . . . magic, that people still rent to him.

due to these aforementioned bad ends, he's incredibly lucky if he gets enough time or leeway to take any sort of furniture with him from one place to the next. however, there is one incredibly comfy, wing-backed, sapphire-blue armchair that's miraculously managed to survive every move in the last ten or so years without being reported stolen — even though it has survived every move because it has, in fact, been stolen in the dead of night nearly every single time, by john and at least one of his buddies.

[snarp]

How to explain to animal that it will feel better if it lets me give it medicine so it should stop running and trying to hurt me and breaking things and such

-- question asked 1,000,000 times/day every day for millennia

[im-still-a-robot]

Oh wow yeah dogshit opinions . Also tell me abt ur chickens

MY CHICKENNNSS

I named my first one honey and then thought "I could make a naming scheme out of this." And proceeded to bother Marnie until I got a blue one sdfghjk

I finally built a coop... mid winter. I am playing baby's first stardew and genuinely my goal is just to chill. I have the wiki up on my phone. The only way to become the encyclopedia is to read it first.

ANYWAY. CHICKENS. I <3 chickens. Genuienly if I wasn't terrible at doing things I would gladly own chickens irl. Birds are one of my favorite things in general (idk if yall have seen my Collection.) and chickens are easily one of my favorites. I really like the salt and pepper looking ones, but truly all of them are wonderful.

I have a singular duck (flip flop) for feather purposes (community center + elliott) and will have a dinosaur soon! If I get more ducks they will be fun footwear but the dinosaur/rabbit naming schemes are yet to be seen.

Also the cat's named Shrike because my farmer is named Wren (proof of the bird thing ;])

[willyonilly]

the medic tf2 experience

[hide-your-bugs-away]

🎶✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

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You're Telling Me/Is There Anybody Out There? - Alan Price

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Kicks - Paul Revere and the Raiders

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[cartoonscientist]

[shiba-boyfriend]

trying to be careful in deciding what flea treatments to get for the kitties, open to suggestions and recommendations if anyone has any. i've been looking at specifically which ones don't have recalls on them but i don't have much faith in google and duck duck go is a bit wonky sometimes, so i'd rather some experienced opinions help guide us if possible

[gongedtornado]

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[bladling]

please god help me. my cats had fleas that took WEEKS of daily combing, vacuuming, sprays, medication, laundry, and finally i caved and paid huge $$ to take them to the groomer and had an exterminator guy flea bomb my fucking apartment. my cats were flea free for about a month and now they are BACK?????????? my cats are indoor cats only please fucking help i cant deal with this anymore

[themanwhowouldbefruit]

maybe ive brought bleeding slash dying animals to the vet too many times but most of them are sooooo normal about it that's literally their job what is amelia's problem lol

[snarp]

Bu Cat is way too good at cleaning off his topical flea meds, having an allergic reaction to the fleas, ripping out a bunch of his fur, giving me an allergic reaction to his fleas as well, etc.

Fortunately, he is enthusiastic about eating medicated canned food - so long as it is served in a people-food dish, Dupe Cat gets his own dish as well, and I am simultaneously eating canned tuna from a dish. He wishes our experiences to be shared.

[quotesfrommyreading]

The plague swept Europe 700 years ago, killing a third of the population. It was called the Black Death, possibly for dark patches caused by bleeding under the skin.

It killed millions in China and Hong Kong in the late 1800s before scientists began associating the illness with rats and eliminating rodent populations.

The plague comes in three forms. If a person gets bitten by an infected flea, they'd most likely develop bubonic plague, named for the painful lumps, or "buboes," where the bacteria multiply. The bacteria can also get into the bloodstream, causing septicemic (or blood poisoning) plague, and can also spread to the lungs, causing pneumonic plague. The World Health Organization considers this variant to be one of the deadliest infectious diseases because it is highly contagious – spread by coughing — and the fatality rate is 100 percent if untreated.

Early symptoms of the plague can mimic the flu — including lethargy and swelling or stiffness in joints and lymph nodes. If someone begins exhibiting these symptoms after coming into contact with rodents or with pets in regions where the plague exists among animal populations, they should seek medical care immediately, Markman says.

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[lesenbyan]

every spring through fall once a month every month I live an entire season of a soap opera in a few hours and it hurts me ; u;