I sprayed an area with insecticide. I closed the door to leave the area to dry so my cat wouldn't go in there. My husband later opened the door to use the bathroom, but I'm not sure which time. I went home to check her 5 hours later. The sprayed area is fine and my cat seems fine. Should I seek emergency care just in case she has ingested it or monitor her for symptoms?

I think my cat ingested insecticide from our weed eater. He likes to go up to it and lick it because it has left over grass but we had put out insecticide before cutting the grass which probably led to having some small amount on weed eater.

Hi, some roaches entered my room last night from a leak in the ceiling so I used a Baygon Cockroach killer aerosol spray to deal with them 'cause they were flying around. I sprayed them accordingly, then under my bed as well, to be sure. I left for a while (I don't remember how long exactly, but I fear it was less than 10 mins), then when I re-entered to grab my wallet, my cat ran in behind me. I caught him by the tail as he went under the bed and brought him out promptly. In my flustered state however, it didn't occur to me to wash his paws afterwards, so now I'm worried about him. It's been at least 10 hours since he ran into the room but so far he hasn't shown any change in behavior or symptoms other than some face/eye scratching earlier (which was still 10 or so hours after possible exposure). Should I be as worried as I am? What symptoms should I look out for? And, if he was exposed, could he spread exposure to my other cats? At the moment we're unable to bring him to the vet because of a bad storm where I am. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I am concerned about long term side effects from pyrethrin toxicity exposure. I applied a 'natural' cat flea control that I got at the $ store as I have had no income for the last 2 months. Peppermint oil, clove oil, lemongrass oil are the active ingredients. I have 2 cats and applied one dose to each. My old cat was fine but our younger one started yowling 1 hour after dose but he normally is vocal to get out at night and I want him in due to predators. After a few hours he was still vocal and scratching the area but I just thought that the smell might be bothering him. The next morning I woke up to find him in a full blown seizure on the floor and rushed him to the ER vets. He felt really warm but vet said his temp was only slightly elevated which was good news. They bathed him and administered methocarbanol a few times. They advised to keep him overnight for monitoring and IV fluids but that would have been $1000 dollars and said that if I thought I could give him a pill that I could take him home once he was stabilized. The vet said she was not the worst case she has seen and put him at a 3-5 in a scale with 10 being the worst. After I got home and was reading the print out they gave me I read that if he were kept he would have gotten intralipids to bind the toxin which was written as a treatment I refused and I have no recollection as being discussed (but it was a stressful situation so I may have missed it though I would have been interested in him receiving this treatment because I discussed activated charcoal at application site or orally for this purpose at discharge which they advised against.) I only tried to administer the methocarbanol 1 time when they first recommended dosing him and was only able to keep 1/2 dose in him but since he never got really bad tremors again. (Slight paw twitches and ear flicks) that day and the day following. Eating and drinking and eliminating well. 2 days after no twitching still eating/drinking eliminating but more sleepy. Today is 3 days later and he still seems more sleepy than pre-application. I am not sure when I should be concerned that he may have permanent effects from this ordeal or if this is just his body taking the time to recoup. I am kicking myself for not recognizing how bothered he was that night and not washing it off him before it got so bad. Also I wish the vet went over written methods of treatment and had me initial refusal or acceptance of each because the intralipid treatment would have been something I would have considered an overnight stay for (if that was the only way he could receive them) but I knew I could monitor him at home and would not be shy about getting pills into him (although I was not as successful as I thought I could be and was very glad that he did not appear to need the medication as much as was anticipated.)

Last night we spray some insecticide at home, unfortunately without knowing that our cat is under our mini table. We sprayed on her. We are not sure if it is directly sprayed on her face or not but sadly lately she was showing some symptoms like a lot of drolling. She act normally, but still were worried. We dont know what to do. We want her to go to vet but we dont have enough money to pay the bills due to some financial issues this past few weeks