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Posted on 05/22/2013 5:02:41 AM PDT by servo1969
Tigers, Lions, Leopards, all cat species can catch fleas, so at Big Cat Rescue we have to treat all of our 100+ residents with flea prevention just like your domestic cat at home every single month!
It's expensive and hard work to keep the cats flea free and happy at the sanctuary! Watch our volunteer vet Dr. Liz Wynn cover the 55 acres and treat all of our cats.
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Cool vid ping!
Beautifu smart BIG kitties. I love it.
My Hannah runs when she sees me coming with her hairball treatment. It’s hard to do a kitty burrito with a 22 pound Maine Coon. :)
Those were baby chicks they were tossing to the cats??!
They’re already dead so they didn’t suffer or anything.
“Cougars are EASY...”
Quote from the movie! LOL!
Thanks! I love the videos at Big Cat Rescue.
One of the coolest shows the cats curling up in big cardboard boxes.....just like their small relatives.
Baby chicks raised for this? Just seems so heartless..wrong. (now l get a lecture on meat industry). Am l alone in feeling like this??
> It’s hard to do a kitty burrito with a 22 pound Maine Coon.
I too have a 22 pound Maine Coon.
Last year I discovered that the Advantage flea treatment is also available in a pump spray bottle.
Now, instead of spotting him with the back of the neck dose, I set the spray bottle to stream and give him the number of shots (per pound) noted in the directions.
I’ll never go back to the tablets or neck spots again.
Large, highly intelligent obligate carnivores vs an animal we humans also use for food? Sorry, cats win.
Pilling a house cat is hard enough; to coax a big cat to take their meds you do what you have to and that works. If it makes you feel any better I’m sure they have some way of killing the feeder chicks that’s merciful.
I agree.
The smaller cats would needlessly suffer flea infestations, which can escalate horribly if left untreated.
And since hiding their medication inside a humanely killed chick is the only ruse that works on them,
I say go for it, Big Cat Rescue.
I would love to know more about the spray treatment. I just Googled Advantage spray flea treatment for cats and nothing came up. Is there another name for it? Thanks for your help.
My Tortie is extremely skittish. I have held her three times in her 4 years, and can barely pat her when she is curled up in her bed. That being said—— I can just imagine if I squirted a spray bottle near her!!!!! LOL! I was able to sneak the back of the neck stuff on her by leaving the thingy near her bed so that she knew it was not something to be afraid of.
This is a cat who wants to be near us all the time, but not to be touched. I guess she never had loving by humans right after birth. Sigh
We used to have a tortie —she was the least snuggly cat that I’ve ever known. I think they tend to be on the wild side — at least that was my experience.
Just put flea collars on them........
Just think of it as fishing with worms..........
Oh I can relate to that. We have 3 cats and one of them literally showed up one stormy night on our doorstep. Now 13 years later he is still a scaredy cat although he has been treated like a prince all those years. I have never picked up a cat who is as stiff as he is. There is nothing cuddly about him and it's just so sad. He tolerates having his tail gently pulled, but that's about it.
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