How to flea comb your cat using a 32 teeth to the inch flea comb. Perhaps it should read “How I flea comb…”
This is an archived video snippet that I bumped into onto my computer, today. It was made about 3 years ago when Binnie was alive and about 18 years of age. It is not a complete video but still has some use. I would normally add some more footage and some text perhaps. However, I think it is quite nice in this raw state. Binnie, my lady cat companion, was her nice, tubby self at the time.
I made the video as an attempt to explain how flea combing could be done. I am not saying this is the only way. What I can say with certainty is that people should routinely flea comb their cat if only to check that (s)he has no fleas.
Even if you don’t find a flea in the usual places around the chest, chin, ears, neck and shoulders (all at the front end), it is important to check the area that is just above the base of the tailΒ – where the tail starts. This is where you’ll find flea feces, small black bits. This is the area vets flea comb in my experience when checking a cat for fleas.
Binnie had a dense double coat. Another reason for regular flea combing a cat with such a coat is to make it easier to do it. If you leave it for a couple of days it is much more difficult to pass the fine comb through the undercoat.
You’ll see her have a gentle swipe at me at the end! This is fine and I actually found it very cute. She was a little bit grumpy in her old age and probably wasn’t in the best of moods to be flea combed. I loved her to bits.
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How do you flea comb your cat? Tell me, please…. π
THIS PAGE HAS BEEN BUMPED UP FROM APRIL 2013. YES, 6 YEARS AGO. IT BRINGS BACK NICE MEMORIES.
lol you are so funny Micheal :0
Oh Yes….I have had the odd flea bite π I did tend to flea comb her on the bed. But I always caught them π LOL I am a demon flea catcher. I would nearly always kill them on the comb. If, on rare occasions, a flea escaped to the bed. I’d catch it and crush it between finger and thumb… I was deadly.
OMG Micheal I had to laugh at you flea combing in your BED.It’s a good job Binnie didn’t have fleas or you’d have got some nasty bites if any dropped off and survived until your bedtime.
LOL. It was definitely this. She had a little swipe at me. It is sort of natural for a cat. Actually that was very unusual for her. I’m fine with it though. I probably messed with her for too long. She was a bit of a prima donna. It had to be the first and only take π
Did Binnie give you a high five at the end of was that a ‘I’ve finished acting for today’? She seems to have been a lovely cat. I like black and white cats π Great video – you make it look easy. I am just getting my 3 used to being brushed. Not even there with that yet so flea combing will have to be the next step.