Spot On treatment advice

[patnporridge]

Hello! My vet has reccomended using Spot On for my two pigs. We’ve used it before and it seemed to help for a while but the mites are back. She’s suggested we try it 2 or 3 times with 2 weeks between each treatment. My question is this: we’ll treat our guinea pigs, but at which point of the treatment should we blitz their cage and disinfect everything? They currently have a proper cage clean every 3 days but obviously we need to be pretty thorough to make sure we get any eggs etc and don’t want to waste any spot on (or my piggies patience) on doing it in the wrong order! So do we:
1. Take them out, clean and disinfect the cage and everything in it, treat them, and put them back in.
2. Take them out, treat them, put them back in, and clean and disinfect the cage a day or two later.
3. Take them out, clean and disinfect the cage and everything in it, treat them, put them back in, then clean and disinfect the cage fully again the next day.
4. Some other option?

And also how on earth do you disinfect wooden houses?

Any tips greatly appreciated!

 

[Piggies&buns]

Treat the piggies.
A couple of days later do a full disinfect and clean of the cage and items in it.
Then return to normal cleaning routine until the next treatment.
Then do second treatment. A couple of days later do a full disinfect, then return to normal cleaning routine. Etc

Get yourself some F10. It is a vet grade disinfectant that kills everything. You can use it to disinfect the cage. Plus you can make up the solution and put wooden hides in a bucket is the solution to soak them. I would use cardboard boxes while they are undergoing treatment otherwise you’ll need to repeatedly soak the wooden hides. Give the wood ones back once treatment is complete.

 

[patnporridge]

Treat the piggies.
A couple of days later do a full disinfect and clean of the cage and items in it.
Then return to normal cleaning routine until the next treatment.
Then do second treatment. A couple of days later do a full disinfect, then return to normal cleaning routine. Etc

Get yourself some F10. It is a vet grade disinfectant that kills everything. You can use it to disinfect the cage. Plus you can make up the solution and put wooden hides in a bucket is the solution to soak them. I would use cardboard boxes while they are undergoing treatment otherwise you’ll need to repeatedly soak the wooden hides. Give the wood ones back once treatment is complete.

This is so insanely helpful - thank you so much! Ordered the F10 and it’s already arrived so we’re ready to go. In terms or cardboard boxes for houses - this is going to sound really silly but how do I stick them together? Surely tape in the cage is a bad idea - do I also need to avoid a box with any kind of printing/writing on in case they lick it?

 

[Swissgreys]

This is so insanely helpful - thank you so much! Ordered the F10 and it’s already arrived so we’re ready to go. In terms or cardboard boxes for houses - this is going to sound really silly but how do I stick them together? Surely tape in the cage is a bad idea - do I also need to avoid a box with any kind of printing/writing on in case they lick it?

No need to stick the boxes together.
Just get some basic brown cardboard boxes and use scissors or a craft knife to cut a door in them.

My kids loved doing this for the piggies, and would write their names on the boxes, cut windows and draw flowers and decorations along the sides, etc.

 

[Swissgreys]

This is just a regular cardboard box with a door cut out.

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