![]() ![]() ![]() Do daily cleaning of any soiled outside bedding. During the summer months, if your pet lives outside, make sure they get their fur clipped for the season. The best method for keeping maggots off your pet is preventing them in the first place. Finally, using hairspray on the maggots is another unwise tip - doing so probably won’t kill them, and will only serve to give your pet a stiff hairdo.Cats are very sensitive to permethrins (an insecticide in many over-the-counter flea preventatives), and they can lead to intense muscle tremors and seizures. This would be something I would be very wary of doing on a cat. There is also information about using over the counter permethrin products to kill maggots.Another very bad idea, placing boiling water on maggots, is something your pet would not appreciate, to say the least. ![]() Pouring powdered lime on your pet also is not a good idea, since it can cause vomiting, diarrhea and GI tract ulceration.Pouring straight bleach on the maggots is another unwise treatment recommended online - doing so can be very irritating to the eyes and act as an irritant to the lungs as well.Besides potentially being a local irritant, if your pet ingests that kind of fluid, they can aspirate some of the material into the lungs. ![]()
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