Emily

Last week I got a call from my mother saying that her friends boyfriend bought a Maine coon kitten and was having it brought up from Iowa at the end of the week. The problem was that Her Friends daughter is SUPER allergic to cats so they couldn't keep it. So mom wanted to know if either Chris or I could take it. I wasn't so sure because I already have two cats and they wouldn't be all that happy if I brought in another one, but I agreed to see it. So they said they would bring it over on Saturday... Then it wasn't coming up till Sunday then Sunday night, then they picked it up on Monday, but wanted to spend some time with it, so I didn't get to meet it until Wednesday, and by then I had talked myself into taking it at least for a while.

So they brought it over and it was a little 6 week old Female Maine Coon named Emily.


My Cats were really angry and they have been sulking and hissing all night. So I confined it to my office. She was sleeping on my lap when I looked down at her and a bug ran across her nose. Horrified I started looking through her fur and all the signs of fleas were there.. Including of course-- fleas. So I gave her a quick bath which did nothing but make her cry. So I put her back in her carrying box and ran off to the store for some flea treatment. I came back and sprayed it on her and worked it in. According to the bottle in 5 to 10 minutes all the fleas would be dead. I put her back in the box and waited. I took her out and started combing her with the flea comb. I got some fleas out of her, but they weren't dead. In fact they seemed to have enjoyed their little bath. So I combed her pretty good and got a bunch of fleas out which I drowned in Windex. The I set about vacuuming the house, taking showers myself and washing all of my clothes I was wearing Emily's cat bed, I woke JQ up and made her shower and I washed all of our pillow cases and covers. In the meantime I was also combing Emily and I got more and more fleas off of her and drowned them in Windex. I also cleaned out her ears which were very dirty, it took about 20 Q-tips. I think I've gotten all the fleas now. I'm hoping that the damage was minimal, I only had her for a couple hours before I saw the fleas and set to work getting rid of them. As soon as sane people are up I'll call the Vet and see if I can't get her in today.

What a crappy night :( Needless to say I didn't get much work done tonight.