I'm about to order more flea treatment for my two cats and wonder which is the better of the two? I have been using Advantage, but it is not 100% successful - but are any of them?
I use advocate for my two, it's similar to advantage but has an added wormer so that gets done at the same time
while handy, i think worming monthly is a bit too often, so prefer to use drontal every three months for worms and advantage monthly for fleas, the added bonus here is that drontal treats for tapeworms as well, where as advocate does not. (and if you've gone to advocate to treat a flea infestation, it's likely the animal will contract tapeworm as the fleas are a vector for the parasite)
there is a spot on worm treatment you can get called Profender, which is a spot-on wormer, which treats both round worms and tapeworms
prescription only, though i've heard good things about it.
Taking on board all advice.
My problem is that I have two cats - small female who is 21 years old and large male who is 11. Female stays in house 99% of the time, male is a lazy old git but does go hunting occasionally When they had their M.O.T earlier on this year, the vet advised against giving female the annual injection as she felt cat didn't need it and didn't want to pump her with unnecessary drugs - a thought I am still debating with myself. So bearing this in mind, I want to protect cats from fleas, so think I will stay with Advantage for them both. Male has Drontal too. Hopefully this routine will protect them both as I don't want male passing anything on to female.
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the OTC frontline will be about as effective as throwing water at them in my experience.
stronghold is another one you can try, but prescription only.
elliminall is another fipronil based product, as is effipro
basically an off-brand/different label for a very similar product to frontline.
We also sprayed the entire house with StayKill and fingers crossed we haven't seen a flea since
while handy, i think worming monthly is a bit too often, so prefer to use drontal every three months for worms and advantage monthly for fleas, the added bonus here is that drontal treats for tapeworms as well, where as advocate does not. (and if you've gone to advocate to treat a flea infestation, it's likely the animal will contract tapeworm as the fleas are a vector for the parasite)
there is a spot on worm treatment you can get called Profender, which is a spot-on wormer, which treats both round worms and tapeworms
prescription only, though i've heard good things about it.
My problem is that I have two cats - small female who is 21 years old and large male who is 11. Female stays in house 99% of the time, male is a lazy old git but does go hunting occasionally