Too many flea medications. Wash him immediately with a dish liquid such as Dawn. See your veterinarian if you notice tremors, wobbly gait or excessive drooling. He should probably be examined by your veterinarian anyway to avoid complications. Discuss safer, more effective flea control with your veterinarian.
Both cats and dogs need to be given preventive products for fleas and ticks. If you are the head of a household where cats and dogs reside together, you may be tempted to get one flea and tick treatment for both. It's important that you do your research carefully before using any product on your pets that has not been explicitly prescribed for them, and this is particularly the case with flea and tick medicine.
Cats and dogs have different physiologists and these products affect them differently. Canine formulations of flea and tick preventive products can be lethal for cats, so you can not use the same medication on your dog as your cat -- unless it has been specifically formulated for both species.
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Cat fleas may be
responsible for disease transmission through humans, and have been suspected as
transmission agents of plague. Furthermore, Small animals such as cats with
large infestations can lose enough bodily fluid to fleas and may result with
dehydration.
SOURCE: My kitten has already gotten fleas,
Kittens must be at least 12 weeks old before any flea treatment is administered
There are some cases that
cat flea are real life threatening for your pet especially regarding to
kittens, puppies and calves.
Unfortunately yes, flea
attacks wild animals as much as they attack pets but the effect on the bigger
animals is minimal in comparison to the effect on domestic pets.
There are some cases that
one cat flea product wouldn't work properly against cat flea. If this is your
scenario, you should rotate to different types of cat flea product each week
this way you'll reduce the cat flea resistance significantly.
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