What is good for mites: Revolution vs Frontline?

Gave them a flea & tick shampoo bath yesterday and they had since been scratching around the neck area. The Wife thinks mites are causing the itch as the vet did detect a mite egg on YY when she last went for her annual check up. No fleas were detected though.

We are considering the application of either Revolution or Frontline. Based on internet literature, Frontline only kills fleas and ticks while Revolution is 2-up, adding on ear mites and heartworm to the list. Revolution is almost 2x the cost of Frontline at ~$90+ for 6 applications for 6 cats.

So what would be a better solution for us? Revolution or Frontline?

New litter box odour control mechanism

I learnt this last week after a chat with a friend who has just recently got his third cat. To eliminate any foul odour from the litter boxes besides the usual diligent clearing and cleaning of the litter boxes, he places a small tub of coffee grind next to the 3 litter boxes. It seems to work quite well as I did not detect any foul smell within 1m of the boxes. I did a little research on the internet and apparently, coffee beans absorb any smell in its vicinity and can help in odour control.Therefore, I have collected some spent coffe grind from the office coffee machine and have placed it in a mid size flower pot (the bigger the opening the better). The pot has a heavy base and will hopefully prevent May May, the nosiest parker of them all, from toppling it over. I have also covered the pot with an old stocking of the Wife to prevent them from digging up the grind and also to prevent spillage should MM manage to topple it over.

And now, fingers crossed. Maybe the coffee grind will really work wonders. If it does, it is really recycling since the coffee grind is destined to be thrown away anyway. As the grind is damp, fungus will probably start growing in it in a week or two. Then that will have to be thrown out and refilled.

Add-on on 21 Nov 10, Sun morning: The coffee grind worked. I checked out the litter box area this morning and there was no smell even though they did their business in the boxes during the night. There was a faint coffee smell around the area though. And they did not topple the pot at all.

Cat Ladders

This site is fantastic!

It is giving me so many ideas on how to improve our current set up, which is purely 2 staggered planks bought from Ikea. Only XX, CC and YY use it. Not for play but to escape from us when we have to catch them for pilling, bath etc.

I think I will be spending the next few weekends in Ikea. :)

This has got to be the cutest kitten video on Youtube!

I like the black one. No. I think I'll take all 4.

Another one joins the family!!!!

Bon Bon:

The day the tooth fairy came to visit Kim Kim, Daddy & Mummy brought home a new occupant to stay and have put her up in our room where the litterboxes and the cage are.

She is big and black. She doesn't speak but sometimes howl or sometimes whisper when her internal organ start turning blue. Most of the time though, she sleeps, only waking up for an hour or so in the morning after Daddy & Mummy get up from bed. But she is more active at night like us, when she spews blue lava from her big mouth and attempts to speak to us. But none of us understand her language and sadly, we are still not friends.

I'm not sure if she wants to make friends with us. I want to but I can't understand her language. So far, I have left her alone, hoping that one day, we will be friends and can perhaps huddle together for a nap or maybe even do some grooming together.

The good thing is that after she has come to join us, our room is so much fresher and cleaner. I am not sure if it is due to her coming to stay with us, but it's a good thing she is now part of the family.

Ohh, before I forget, I should show you a cute photo of her. :)

Angelic faces

I stumbled upon this flickr site. This person, whom I think is Singaporean, has some of the cutest photos of his cats, a very lazy Scottish Fold and a hyper active Muchkin. These 2 cats are very photogenic and really cooperate well with the camera.

I know some readers may have this thing about buying pure breeds rather than adopting a moggie. I have my views too. But let's put that aside for the moment and enjoy the antics of 2 cats, apparently very well taken care of and very loved by the family.

Enjoy!

(3 more working days before I fly. Yipee!!!!!)

Silent members of the Mew-Nited Nation

Now you know why General Yuan Yuan is so bold as to attack the Paper Nation. The officials of the Mew-Nited Nation are all sleeping on the job.

The door-cats who did not sound the bell when General Yuan Yuan launched her attacks.

The Security Council which sleeps on the job.

The happy-go-lucky Foreign aide

The 3 amigos who hold the highest post in the Mew-Nited Nation, with their wooden expression

The Interior Minister with her small sidekick

Voted the most polite official in the Mew-Nited Nation's history

Obviously Stitch is always on the side of disorderliness

The Matriach of the Mew-Nited Nation, always accomodating, always smiling

The Chang Chang look-alike Tigger is always looking forward to a hug

The smiling fracternal twins

New addition to the family

Bon Bon:

Mummy & Daddy are so greedy. They saw Pip’s little ones and they say they want another. I mean, aren’t the 5 of us enough for them? Aren’t we already more than a handful? We don’t give enough love? Not enough head butts? Not enough purring? They have to get another one?

So they got out one night and sneaked home with this ugly looking thing. I mean, it does not even look like any one of us. OMG!!! Why do they have to bring home such a hideous looking thing?

The only good thing is he doesn’t move, smell or monopolise Mummy & Daddy’s time with us. Oh well, I guess he can stay then. He looks quite cute on his good days.