Ticks on cats. (Give me a straight answers)

[Supreme Admiral]

Please give me a straight answers on how to take care of ticks on cats once and for all. My three cats are outdoors, no matter how I get rid of them, they comes back.

It's just that I don't want it in my new apartment and don't want to hear my landlord/landlady complains about ticks being there in my place.

Tell me, do I have to WAIT until wintertime, so ticks will be dead? Seriously, give me a long, good answers, so I know what to do about those bastards.

 

[RJDiogenes]

There's not much you can do except get a flea-and-tick collar. Some of them work okay. There are also sprays and powders and stuff, but I never found them very effective (although they may have improved since I tried them). The best thing to do is check your Cats when they get home and get rid of any ticks that you find.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

What about shave their coat off? Would that be helpful?

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

Call a vet.

 

[Holdfast]

Please give me a straight answers on how to take care of ticks on cats once and for all.

Plenty of lube and careful application of sequins.

Whoops, my bad; that's the gay answer.

 

[SeerSGB]

What about shave their coat off? Would that be helpful?

Assuming you're not being deliberately obtuse, then yes it would be a really, REALLY, bad ideal. Animals have coats for a reason.

There's not much you can do except get a flea-and-tick collar. Some of them work okay. There are also sprays and powders and stuff, but I never found them very effective (although they may have improved since I tried them). The best thing to do is check your Cats when they get home and get rid of any ticks that you find.

There's also a pill you can get at the vet that you feed the cat and then it'll kill the fleas and ticks when they bite the animal.

 

[Pingfah]

I hear that microwaving them kills the ticks.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

There's not much you can do except get a flea-and-tick collar. Some of them work okay. There are also sprays and powders and stuff, but I never found them very effective (although they may have improved since I tried them). The best thing to do is check your Cats when they get home and get rid of any ticks that you find.

There's also a pill you can get at the vet that you feed the cat and then it'll kill the fleas and ticks when they bite teh animal.

Really? If I feed my cats with that pill, those bastards finally can die for good?

 

[JustKate]

There's an injection that's available, too, but I think that's for a one-time use.

I know cats get fleas (one of mine had an infestation one time that took just forEVER to get rid of), but I was under the impression that they didn't get ticks very often just because it's difficult for the ticks to penetrate that undercoat cats have. But goodness knows there are things about felines that I don't know - and anyway, it's been a long time since I had a cat that was allowed outdoors.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Thanks, Kate.

But what about ticks eggs?

 

[JustKate]

^ The shot, you mean? If that's what you're asking about, the shot kills any critter that bites for a certain number of days - 30 days, perhaps. It's intended to kill an infestation, I think, not as long-term control.

But surely if you explain the problem to the vet, he or she can advise you? There is a variety of products out there.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

All right. I'll take a look into it.

If there's nothing that I can do about it....I will have no choice, but to put them in sleep.

 

[tharpdevenport]

All right. I'll take a look into it.

If there's nothing that I can do about it....I will have no choice, but to put them in sleep.

Adoption! Don't kill your cats just 'cause you can't have them.

 

[Trekker4747]

All right. I'll take a look into it.

If there's nothing that I can do about it....I will have no choice, but to put them in sleep.

You're going to kill your cats because you can't keep ticks off of them?

That'd solve the problem, sure, but it'd be like hunting a fly with a shotgun.

Get a flea and tick collar.

Problem: Solved.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Damn it!

What do you want me to do about it?! I can't afford to have my new place all over with ticks!

 

[tharpdevenport]

Very, very simple: talk to the vet, find the options, if none work, put the cats up for adoption. Killing them is ridiculous!

 

[Servo]

If there's nothing that I can do about it....I will have no choice, but to put them in sleep.

Damn it!

What do you want me to do about it?! I can't afford to have my new place all over with ticks!

I thought you were leaving the board, and with comments like that, I really wish you had.

You are either putting on a fake personality and purposely trying to antagonise people with comments like those, or you really do think like that. Either way, you are a prick. A monumental prick.

I expect I'll be warned in due course.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

If there's nothing that I can do about it....I will have no choice, but to put them in sleep.

Damn it!

What do you want me to do about it?! I can't afford to have my new place all over with ticks!

I thought you were leaving the board, and with comments like that, I really wish you had.

You are either putting on a fake personality and purposely trying to antagonise people with comments like those, or you really do think like that. Either way, you are a prick. A monumental prick.

I expect I'll be warned in due course.

 

[SeerSGB]

All right. I'll take a look into it.

If there's nothing that I can do about it....I will have no choice, but to put them in sleep.

As others said: what's the problem with adoption? Why kill them when you don't have to.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I was going to suggest that you give your cats away to someone else if whatever the Vet suggests doesn't work. But now I'm going to suggest giving them away right now. I think you'd be better off not taking care of cats.

At the very least, how about keeping them inside and using a flea and tick collar to get rid of them. Then move to the new place.