Okay, hi, everybody!
This is Hannah, and this is Katherine. She's a kitten lady volunteer
And here we have Munchkin!
And Munchkin is a new rescue that I got today. So we're just looking at her and cleaning her up
We just cleaned out her ears
And then I got out my flea comb. So if you have a flea comb at home
And you get a kitten you can comb through them
And you can do it reverse, or you can do it
Straight down
And you might find that you see some dirt on them if you see like little black specks
That is flea dirt which means that they at one point at least had fleas
But you might also see active fleas which I saw on her
So what we're gonna do right now
Is we're going to get her cleaned up with a bath
For flea treating kittens
I don't recommend using a chemical treatment because their bodies are so small and vulnerable
So what I do is a flea bath.
I love that she's purring, she has no idea what's about to come
We have comfortably warm water running
And then I have my natural Dish liquid
Which is unscented
And this is going to help break down the bodies of the fleas
And also wash them off of her, so she's not gonna have fleas anymore
First thing that I do is create a ring of soap around their neck
So that the fleas can't travel up and get onto her head
Because once this fleas discover what's going on, they're very smart!
And they will say "Oh, I know. I'm going to come up and I'm gonna scape"
So we're going to just take some soap
And I'm going to create a ring around her neck
So I always just create a sudsy ring first and this acts as like a
Kind of a fence to say "No fleas shall pass"
So now that she's got that soapy ring
We'll be able to kill all the fleas from here down
And then the head up. We're gonna have to do kind of like a Spa treatment
And I'm avoiding her face, but I'm making sure I get into all the nooks and crannies
I know baby, I'm sorry
Okay, so her whole body is sudsy
And those fleas should all be dead now
And then we're just going to rinse
So make sure your water is comfortably warm
I'm just gonna rinse. I'm sorry Munchkin
Alright. She's gonna feel better after this. She is gonna feel better.
Okay, you want to get the towel ready for me?
And immediately dry, so Katherine's gonna dry her off
And then you want to make sure that they're warm right away because
It's very difficult for them to regulate their body temperature
So nice and warm
So now I'm just going to use these cotton rounds to do her head
So just a little bit of the soap on there, but we want to be
avoiding
The sensitive bits
So avoiding the area around her eyes
And I'll just kind of
Sponge bath
Oh! Just kidding. Oh, oh, oh!
I got it!
Again I squish him dead and then he goes down in the sink
That's all the dirt and blood
From her being bit by fleas
Kind of rinsing her
Getting all those dead fleas off
Eewww. Yuck. Gross Yucky!
They're really sensitive to fleas because they can become anemic so easily
So you do want to take it really seriously if you see fleas on a kitten
We're gonna dry her little head off
You can actually just go through again and kind of give them the old
We gon give her a blowout, like when you go to the salon and you get a blowout
Okay, so she is nice and clean and we combed through her
So she shouldn't have any more fleas and now we are going to dry her off
with a
Gentle Blow-dry
So you want to make sure that it is NOT on hot
That it's on a low setting and you're doing it from kind of far away
All right, so we're gonna burrito her right up with a nice clean blanket.
She's nice and dry. She's flea free
And now Katherine is just gonna kind of hold on to her and make her nice and warm until we feel like she's
feeling all the way better. And this is the best way to
Flea treat these little teeny tiny guys so that they don't have to have that chemical treatment
Munchkin says
Thank you! Is nice to be clean