Today my boyfriend and I went to the animal shelter in a nearby town and adopted a 7-8 week old kitten, who we named Chloe.
Lilly hasn't gotten to meet her yet... the reason why is because Chloe was/is? covered in fleas and flea dirt. While we were still at the shelter they put Advantage on her but used only like a TEENY TINY amount out of a syringe, they didn't put the whole thing on her I'd say because she's so young who knows! I noticed the flea dirt though and I think even the woman did because she was like "well if she has fleas then flea dirt will fall off" and as soon as she ruffled Chloe's fur you could see the flea dirt on the paper
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As soon as we left the shelter we took her to our vet for her exam and one of the vaccines. He took a stool sample which came back with no worms. I asked them about the fleas and told him what the shelter did about it and reminded him that I have Lilly and he gave Chloe a Capstar pill. We went to Wal-mart to get some toys and everything then headed home which gave the pill plenty of time to work. Took her out of her pet taxi and there were 5-6
fleas dead in the bottom on the newspaper.
I had him come in the back door with her so we could give her a bath. We called the vet and they said the best bet would be to use baby shampoo as it wouldn't be as harsh on washing off the Advantage. I really wasn't worried about the Advantage washing off as I was about getting all the fleas off before they got to other places in our house. I bathed her 2 times, the 1st time it was ridiculous, I'm talking 20+ fleas in the water. Then we found 5-6 in the towel while drying her off so I wanted to bathe her again. The 2nd time, there was like 1 or 2 in the water then like 3-4 in the towel. Some looked dead and some I really couldn't tell. She's now dry, in her crate on a big comfy towel in the bathroom with some water. Our bathroom is in the back of the house and the only way I knew to TRY and keep the fleas away from Lilly.
Now, my question to all of my lovely friends on YorkieTalk... what do I do? Is there anything else I should do? I'm looking for some insight to this problem. We tried to call the shelter when we got home and they were already closed. Are animals usually infested with fleas when you adopt them from shelters? That's kind of disturbing how there are other animals there that are most likely infested with fleas too. Help YorkieTalkers!!
