Family: More Cat Stuff

Amybear took Milo to the vet yesterday. He has ear mites and was behind on some shots. They wanted to deworm him again as well, just to be safe.

The ear mites are annoying because not only is he getting medicine once a month, but we (meaning mostly Amybear because I was at work) had to clean everything the cat might have left mites upon lest he reinfect himself. And now we have to periodically clean out mite debris from his ears. And cats just love having people poke around in their ears, let me tell you.

So Milo was not a happy camper when I came home yesterday. And he remained an unhappy camper until after Amybear and I went to bed. He seemed happier when he woke us up at 3am though. We're going to have to do something about that.

Oh and the vet suggested we not leave dry foot out for him to eat 24-7. Instead we should put food down and take it up if he doesn't eat it. This will teach him to eat what he is given when he is given it. It is also contrary to everything I have ever heard about feeding cats dry food (to leave it down and let him eat at his leisure). Of course we are controlling the amount of dry food he eats in a day to prevent him getting fat.

UPDATE: Well we gave him a laser pointer workout last night, but he still woke me up at 2 am. I also found some fleas on him last night. Joy. The good news is that his ear mite medicine should also kill off the fleas. If this pest problem continues we may just damn our flea collar concerns and put a collar on him anyway.