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Cats and fleas - please help!
I am sitting here in tears at Never Nude's poor cat and this is trivial in comparison.
My two 13 month old cats have been scratching for a couple of months now. I treated them with Frontline 6 weeks ago not long before a stay in the cattery. I was informed that they had flea dirt and needed treating and was advised to treat the house where eggs may be lurking. I bought a can of Indorex spray a fortnight ago and sprayed everywhere but the cats are still scratching,. They are due at the cattery in two weeks so I must get them clear by then. Please can you tell me what else I can do. I intend to Frontline them again this week. Surely I must have broken the flea cycle by now? The cats go outside by the way.
My two 13 month old cats have been scratching for a couple of months now. I treated them with Frontline 6 weeks ago not long before a stay in the cattery. I was informed that they had flea dirt and needed treating and was advised to treat the house where eggs may be lurking. I bought a can of Indorex spray a fortnight ago and sprayed everywhere but the cats are still scratching,. They are due at the cattery in two weeks so I must get them clear by then. Please can you tell me what else I can do. I intend to Frontline them again this week. Surely I must have broken the flea cycle by now? The cats go outside by the way.
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I've posted about it before, but i use Diatomaceous Earth on my cat. Rub a bit into her fur every couple of days for a couple of weeks and you kill all fleas.
Can be spread on carpets, bedding, etc to kill fleas too. Completely harmless to pets (unless you keep pet fleas of course) and humans. Can be added to pets (or humans) water to detox and kill internal parasites too.
Our vet seems to think Stronghold is good - and so far so good for our three cats. They appear to be biting/scratching far less.
Frontline and bob martin are both rubbish
We have had Stronghold from the vet instead of frontline, also sprinkle salt around the carpets etc, and leave for a couple of hours before hoovering it dehydrats the fleas and their eggs.
We get it from the vet and its called Frontline Plus I think.
I have found Advocate to be excellent. Frontline did not work.
I get a 3 month supply of advocate from my vets for about £25. Trust me it's brilliant, I've not had one single flea in the 14 months since I got my cats.
I think it's insane for you to be spending so much money on these chemical solutions when that DE puffer i linked to is just as effective, non-toxic, and a fraction of the price.
Just because it's produced by a massive chemical company doesn't mean it works any better than a naturally occurring solution.
have a look at Advantage, it's the flea treating component of Advocate, but without the wormer
personally i prefer advantage over advocate as worming every month feels to me like it's far too often to do it.
i use tablets quarterly for worming which is a perfectly adequate treatment regime for adult animals.
dollymarie, you could make the switch to advantage too, unless lice are a problem, as you already worm quarterly for tape worm,
using a product such as drontal along side the advantage for fleas will treat all intestinal worms.
(and it works out a bit cheaper too - though the money isn't that important when it comes to our critters)
I am so sorry. Have been there several times in the past and it is a nightmare.
Call your local council. A lovely guy in an unmarked car will visit and spray your entire house for about £50. That will totally clean your carpets and furniture and home. Then get your animals to the vets and get a prescription for Advantage or similar. Not Frontline.
I promise you - it is that simple. I was infested last year after looking after my daughter's cats. But there is a dedictated council line - do please call it.
Today we brought home 3 kittens from the cat shelter here on Rhodes. Very first thing we did was bathe them
The Aloe kills not just the fleas but their eggs as well
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=68387135#post68387135
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=68235991#post68235991
I must be lucky, my cat hasn't had any for two years.
that could be the case, but even combo failed for my friend, she was buying form her vet and had a hell of a flea problem.
she switched to advocate which cleared the problem
and later moved on to advantage, and has been flea free since.
it's tit for tat though, just go with what you believe works at the end of the day.
i'm personally not a fan of fipronil based products and would rather stick with imidicloprid