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Midnight Scare
Jun. 27th, 2017 08:13 amHad a horrible scare last night. One of my cats has fleas, so I grabbed some flea treatment from the Basket o' Pet Stuff we have in the laundry room, dabbed it on his neck, and went about my evening. It was only later that M realized that it had been dog flea treatment and not cat, and dog flea liquid is toxic to kitties.
We rushed him to the bathroom as soon as we realized it and washed him off about six times with Dawn dish soap, since that's what the product's website said was best. The packaging had a hotline number, which we tried calling, but they wanted $60 just to call the hotline! I don't have $60 in the bank account right now, but thankfully the website told us everything we needed to watch out for and what to do.
We had to watch him all night to see if he developed any symptoms of poisoning, so we took turns staying up and holding him in a snuggly towel. Once he got over the fact that OMG BATH, he settled down into our arms and really started enjoying all the attention we were giving him.
Thankfully, after the 12 hour period they said to wait, he hadn't developed any symptoms, so we think he's in the clear. M is going to keep an eye on him the rest of the day and make sure there's not some sort of delayed reaction, but we don't think he had any time between us giving him the flea stuff and us bathing it off for him to ingest any.
Bad night.
We rushed him to the bathroom as soon as we realized it and washed him off about six times with Dawn dish soap, since that's what the product's website said was best. The packaging had a hotline number, which we tried calling, but they wanted $60 just to call the hotline! I don't have $60 in the bank account right now, but thankfully the website told us everything we needed to watch out for and what to do.
We had to watch him all night to see if he developed any symptoms of poisoning, so we took turns staying up and holding him in a snuggly towel. Once he got over the fact that OMG BATH, he settled down into our arms and really started enjoying all the attention we were giving him.
Thankfully, after the 12 hour period they said to wait, he hadn't developed any symptoms, so we think he's in the clear. M is going to keep an eye on him the rest of the day and make sure there's not some sort of delayed reaction, but we don't think he had any time between us giving him the flea stuff and us bathing it off for him to ingest any.
Bad night.