the best way to sedate a cat for a flea dip?

Question

Does anyone have any experiance with sedating a cat with over the counter products in order to be able to give them a flea dip? Ya Know. They got claws and I am tired of getting scratched and bit.

Answer 1

I don't think I'd want to try sedating a cat myself. To calm your cat there is a product called "Calmz". A friend of mine used it when she bathed her cat for cat shows. Also, you might investigate other herbals.

Answer 2

Why would you need to do this?

For one thing, you can't get sedation over the counter, these are prescription meds only available from a vet.

For another thing, flea 'dips' are completely unnecessary - yes I'm not surprised you get scratched putting your cat through this! Get some nice spot-on from your vet like Frontline or Revolution - no mess, no fuss. You can just stroke your cat and then put the drops on the back of his neck (make sure it gets on the skin, not the fur) Nobody gets stressed, nobody gets scratched!

Sedation would be in tablet form anyway. If you can get a tablet down your cat, you can certainly get spot-on on him!

N.B pet shop flea treatments are very ineffective anyway so there's no point buying messy 'dips' that don't even work.

Chalice

Answer 3

No, No No!!! Don't do that. Just have a damp cloth ready when you give the cat a bath, with regular cat shampoo!!! Try to get the shampoo from the vet's office, it is oatmeal based. Don't get any of the commercial shampoo in the cat's eyes and never any shampoo in the cat's eyes nor ears. The wet or damp rag is to get the fleas that try to runup the nose and into the eyes and ears. Shampoo first foam iaround te eyes and neck, the protected areas I mentioned and work the way down. The vet has medication that you drop on the back of the neck and the fleas die and this goes on for 3 months. You can spray what the vet has for sale in your home where the fleas hide and breed, if it is carpet and vacuum that up and empty it outdoors! Mop the floors. Pick up throw rugs cuz trhey like to hide and breed under them and take them to the laundry and wash them. Get that med and you won't have to worry about getting scratched and keep the cat indoors and spray the yard, one side at a time and don't bring the poision in with you. Your cat must have tape worms if it had or has fleas. the medicine is cheap from the vet. Please don't use over the counter medicine, it is harmful. They just want your money. If you don't want to by the spray, rent a rug cleaner to get all those eggs out. you must do this for a few months, You better, cuz you will have them in your bed and they will bite you too. If they are in your area, it don't matter if you have a cat or not, they will get in and get you. been there and hated that and still scarred! The vet med is the best that you put on behind the neck. . Those fleas will die and you must get those out of your home. It is a battle as they come in season, here, it is going to be a bad season, Sicatias are in and saw one this early and spiders too. dammed Fleas, I will piut up with anything before fleas. Use a flea comb often and have a bucket of water handy and be ready, they jump out of water!!!!! Good Luck. But really, I cannot stress enough, the med from the vet. It starts killing fkeas and eggs overnight and you must do the rest. really, When I used it, It was over in one month, but kept up with it cuz my neighbors had fleas bad, it hit the Chicago area that year and everyone had them, even those that did not have pets! Oh The vacuum cleaner, I bought the bst that was recommended by consumer reports, I bought and threw away many, this one will get anything in your carpwet, it is the Kenmore Progressive, with direct drive. It is grey. And 99 percent dust free! No dust flys around, just gets sucked up, and it is powerful and it is quiet and no belts to replace, it is direct drive!!! It will help you!

Answer 4

call distinctive groomers and vet workplaces. some vets might have an assistant or groomer on internet site who does this. shelter all the flea issues whilst your cat is out of the abode. Use foggers interior, the ideal volume as directed, spray the front and backyards and circulate slowly areas decrease than the abode with malicious program killer that contains in that's record fleas. Then wait 24 to forty 8 hours after the dip and persist with Frontline or benefit for cats.

Answer 5

I would not try sedating a cat on my own. If you give too high of a dosage, it could potentially be lethal. You could ask your vet for tranquilizers, and he/she should be able to give you a proper dosage amount and side effects to look for.

Don't use Advantix!!!! It's for dogs only!!!

It's best to buy flea topicals from your vet as many of the OTC products aren't the best or the safest. If your cats have fleas that need tending to right away, ask your vet about Capstar, which will immediately kill all fleas on your cat, and the best way to prevent fleas (topicals for the cat, and foggers for the house).

Prevention is the key. It might be expensive but it'll be less stressful on you and the cat.

Answer 6

If you're going to flea dip your cat yourself, you'd need sedation afterwards.

Forget using children's benadryl as someone else suggested. That is for use on a human child, not on a cat.

The best thing to use is the Advantage or Frontline as others have suggested. It works wonderfully and works for a whole month. Once you use it you'll wonder why you didn't start using it earlier.

Answer 7

Instead of a dip try flea powder or Advantix. With Advantix,you put a drop of liquid on the back of the cats head and you're done. Sedation takes years of training and thousands of dollars in equipment, explore other options.

Answer 8

Flea dips are not good for cats and not particularly effective against fleas and ticks. The cats lick the stuff off their fur and can be fatally poisoned.

Frontline and Advantage, which are applied to the skin on the back of the cat's neck, work much better, are much easier to use, and you can put them on so quickly that the cat barely notices you're doing it. They are effective for up to four weeks.

And never use products made for dogs on a cat. We had owners bring their cat to the animal hospital where I work after they had used flea medicine for their dog on her. We saved her but she had seizures for 48 hours and is now blind and partially paralyzed.

Answer 9

see if benedryl won't calm them down. use 1 tablet of children's benedryl.

also, they make muzzles for cats if that doesn't work.

your best bet would be to get a spot on treatment like frontline, it is much easier to use, and much more effective than flea dips, flea dips only work for a week or two, and frontline works for a month.

another technique would be to sponge on the dip, making sure it gets down to the skin all over the cat. you don't nessesarily have to "dip" the cat to use a flea dip.

Answer 10

Nitrous oxide from the dentist office
Valium
pot