Cats in Boxes

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Vixx 25 Jul 6:27pm, 25 Jul 2024 2,203 posts	0 Vixx The cat looks like Gizmo and the cartoons keep flooding my feed at the moment
Little Nemo 25 Jul 7:03pm, 25 Jul 2024 15,038 posts	0 Little Nemo That's adorable
HazelnutCH 27 Jul 7:06pm, 27 Jul 2024 279 posts	0 HazelnutCH PussPuss is checking training.. I only turned on the screen, he certainly took over my phone as a snoozing accessory
sallykate 29 Jul 9:12am, 29 Jul 2024 14,618 posts	0 sallykate That's one happy cat
sallykate 29 Jul 9:15am, 29 Jul 2024 14,619 posts	0 sallykate Caspar has a tick in an awkward place. Usually I'm quite happy removing them with tweezers but this one is on his lower eyelid. It doesn't seem to be feeding (i.e. it's not getting any bigger!). We applied drops last night and I'm hoping it'lll be off by the end of the day. Any experience getting these things off with the special tick tools? I suspect it'll be a three-person job - one to hold his body, one to hold his head still, one to deal with the little blighter.
jda 29 Jul 9:51am, 29 Jul 2024 17,538 posts	0 jda We had to do a bunch with the recent outdoor kittens - one had half a dozen of them! The tick remover worked well even with fairly skittish (but small enough to be controllable) kitties, but they weren't in awkward places. Also useful with a couple of ticks we picked up ourselves on a recent trip to Scotland. Amazing how much smaller the "deer ticks" were on us than the huge grey hedgehog ones on the cats. An insecticide treatment should cause them to drop off or at least loosen their grip in 24-48h. And they won't infest your house in the way fleas and worms can, so not really such a problem IMO.
sallykate 29 Jul 10:31am, 29 Jul 2024 14,620 posts	0 sallykate Thanks jda. I wonder if it's a hedgehog or a deer tick - we definitely have deer round here and probably hedgehogs to. It's about 5mm long.
jda 29 Jul 12:42pm, 29 Jul 2024 17,541 posts	0 jda Big grey/white thing seemed to be called “hedgehog tick” when I looked it up. I’d only previously thought of ticks as the small dark ones you get in the hills in Scotland. But of course they also swell up when engorged.
sallykate 29 Jul 1:31pm, 29 Jul 2024 14,621 posts	0 sallykate It's definitely not what I usually see, which I think is a hedgehog one - so I'm thinking it's a big deer tick.
GlennR 29 Jul 11:39pm, 29 Jul 2024 76,037 posts	0 GlennR Minky is chillin’