Today, the abandoned cat that I took in for the night and during bad weather seems to have spread fleas around my house. They're everywhere. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my neighbor brought home a box of kittens he found in the park. Instead of calling animal control, he decided to keep them. Besides the incessant meowing throughout the day and night, a massive horde of fleas decided to migrate through his light sockets and into my nice clean apartment. FML
Today, I'm covered in scratches because a feral cat found its way under the house and tore apart the A/C duct to climb its way into my room in the middle of the night. After 30 minutes of chasing it, I got rid of it, but my room now smells like cat piss and I'm applying Neosporin to places I should never have to. FML
Today, my sister is nursing an injured cat back to health in our home because she accidentally hit it with her car. Now I can't decide which is contributing more to my insomnia: the incessant meowing, or the constant itching because our house is infested with fleas. FML
Today, like every other day for the past two weeks, the strange cat that has adopted me inexplicably made its way into my house and curled up next to my head while I slept. I'm horribly allergic. FML
Today I opened the door for my cat and he brought in a rat with him. Now the rat is hiding in my house. FML
Today, I got to go back into my house after it had been tented. Suddenly, a foul stench filled my house. My husband checked all around the house and finally checked under the house. There were more than 12 dead stray cats under our house, and guess who was in charge of pulling them out? FML
Today, I came home from holiday, only to find my house full of small decomposing animals, courtesy of my cat. FML
Today, I let my new cat sleep in bed with me. It was cute until she wiped a tapeworm onto my arm. FML
Today, after weeks of wondering if my cat has a fetish for licking my bed covers, I finally witnessed him licking up an ant off of the covers. Turns out that my bed is infested with ants. FML
Today, I woke up to shit on my floor and my cat hiding under my comforter. I have to get rid of my new fish because my cat is afraid of it. FML
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Charmillionaire 13
You did a good deed for a cat. I commend you.
I_iz_B_a_troll 24
Don't be such a pussy, get some flea-sprays and take care of that! At least now you have an awesome kitty. :)
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Comments (66)
BlackBlazeCobra 16
I gave you both an FYL and a YDI, due to the fact that you did a good deed for the cat but didn't check it thoroughly first.
BrandiLush 31
Get a bowl and fill it with Dawn dish soap, plug a night light in and set the bowl on the floor under the night light. Turn off all the other lights, get some sleep and be amazed at your bowl of dead fleas in the morning!
Catkam623 27
Does that actually work if so I wash my dishes with poison, suddenly I'm not feeling too good.
tymarie2012 31
Dawn kills fleas. My friend uses it to get rid of the fleas on her cats
ballbearing 10
Yeah but you have to bathe the cat in it. And then clean the f&$@ out of the carpet and bedding.
oj101 33
C'mon. You take in a stray cat, and expect that it's clean, flea free and healthy without diseases? YDI
KatjaM 15
If you have carpet, sprinkle salt over it and let it sit over night and then vacuum it; it'll dehydrate the little bastards. Also, try to give the cat a bath? If it's possible. Wash the bed sheets and like comments beforehand suggested, spray everything with flea spray. You have a good heart OP :)
mbuck87 19
To bath cat: 1/put some flea shampoo in the toilet; 2/pick up kitty and give it a cuddle; 3/suddenly throw kitty into the toilet and slam the lid (if you do it slow they'll be onto you too early); 4/flush a few times, and lastly; 5/open all doors leading outside, and standing way back, use a long stick to open the toilet lid. Bam freshly washed and flea-less cat. If it ever comes back
simoncat 11
YOU aren't funny. That is cruel. To even suggest doing something like that to a living creature is barbaric.
PincessBoff 6
I think it was a joke, 33.
bfsd42 20
Damn 33. Get a sense of humor. HE was funny. It made me laugh. It was clearly a joke. And I like cats too, before you accuse me of hating them.
pinkpanther61789 15
A simple case of "no good deed goes unpunished" props to you and your kindness op
EvilUndead 9
When you take a stray cat, you should take it to vet to check it for diseases. You didn't do it, so it is your fault. You're lucky that's just fleas and not something more dangerous.
Annis_x3 7
OP just took the cat in at night, plus the weather was bad. I'm not entirely sure, but the local vet offices were probably closed, and getting the cat cleaned was not enough of an emergency to have to go to those emergency animal hospitals.
xgetxbentx 13
Too bad most vets aren't open past like 6 and vet bills are extremely expensive, especially if OP didn't plan on keeping the cat and was going to take it to a shelter in the morning. Oh and not to mention they said it was during bad weather. Driving to the vet may not have been an option. Besides fleas are not hard to get rid of. OP possibly saved that cats life, and with it being night time there was NOTHING they could do. I mean really, if you had to pick between fleas, which aren't hard or expensive to get rid of, or letting the cat die (I assume from freezing to death), which would give anyone with a heart a guilty conscious, what would you choose?
Mkymouse 2
Could be worse the cat could have rabies
mistercrow 9
On the brightside, you did a good deed. A few fleas here and there won't kill you. I love it when people go out of thier way to help unfortunate animals :) Good karma will come to you :)
skyeyez9 25
At least you can get rid of fleas. There are tons of products out there to kill those *******. Buy a bunch of flea collars and keep one on your cat, placed under your bed and under your sheets at the foot of your bed too. That will help while you use the flea killing powder in the carpets and whatever else you use.....vacuum the house real good and dump the dust bin outside each time or the fleas will just crawl out and back into your house.
DanielleinDC 34
That was a very kind thing to do, but you should have tried to confine the cat before calling a shelter or the vet in the morning. That said, there are great ways to get rid of fleas.
simoncat 11
Shelters do not shelter pets. They house them for 72 hours then euthanize them. Shelters are death houses.