All this sounds pretty good, except one thing never use HUMAN shampoo on a cat, they don't sweat thru there skin so the chemicals that go in stay in and build up, they can get sick or not depends on the cat, just safer to use cat shampoo, if you use flea spot on treatment, wait for at least 48 hours before you put it on or 48 hours after you put it on, it needs to use the oils in the cats fur to get where it needs to be, if you wash the cat it strips the oils off. If you use spot on don't use flea shampoo that's too much insecticide with spot on and shampoo. Some cats are tough and this doesn't bother them, but better safe than sorry..just wanted to add MHO...carry on.