ProteusOne,
weejit is an awesome looking calico! I love the yellow/orange markings!
I've found that you can control the parasite problem in cats, dog or us for that matter & kill fleas & ticks by using:
FOOD GRADE DIATOMACEOUS EARTH
http://www.pinnaclefarms.ca/Catalogue.htm#DE
OR
http://www.gardenharvestsupply.com/...dproduct=39#top
Good information, multi-use product, natural contents, & not harmful or toxic.
You can use it to kill insect pests, such as ants, fleas & the such & your kids can walk around in it. My DH was in Arkansas working on regional jets, staying in a lower rate room for rent. He saw a roach & flipped, (Cheryl doesn't live with bugs), He called me because he couldn't sleep w/bugs in the room. I found a livestock supply place near him & he went & got it. Long story short... there were no more bugs to be found in HIS room, and the ant hills outside the place went out of business too, (he covered their mounds). It cuts into the breathing diaphragm of the insect & suffocates them, but not instantly. They take it back to the nest & clean each other...you get the picture. Dead Bugs!
I use it on my cruciferous vegetables, sprinkle it on the leaves & on the ground around the plant...voila, looks like battered & fried caterpillars the next day! Saved my brussel sprouts last year.
Well enough rambling on. I feed my cat raw food & had her checked at the vet when she was getting neutered & they said it was amazing, she was clean & couldn't find a thing wrong with her, no fleas, no parasite or worms. I told them she was an outdoor cat & that I just use 1/2 tsp DE in her food a day. She is now 9yo & moving like a young'un!
Hope this helped some....LMK! ~Cheryl