Talk about adding insult to injury! First, I was gone for 7 1/2 straight hours. Then, in the guise of feeding them a few PureBites treats to make up for my extended absence, I doused the back of their heads with some nasty smelling (apparently stinging, in the case of two of them) stuff. (frontline plus, long story which I will not go into here, but it was necessary)
And if all that wasn't bad enough, after I fed them a real meal, I took them, one by one, and clipped all their claws!
Actually all is already forgiven. But Queen Eva does seem still troubled by the Frontline Plus. Jennie was last time I had to use it (about a year ago, for the same reason) but doesn't seem to be this time.
If I have to use it for another month I'll just do the other two, and try the diluted vinegar (as a spot on) with Queen Eva. The vinegar, if I understand it, repels them, doesn't kill them, but any that she repels will get killed by the other two.