Flea Treatment. - Cheap (but very affective)

[Chrissie]

Up to a couple of years ago, I found Frontline to be the best flea treatment, but it stopped working. I then changed to using Stronghold, but that also is now no longer affective. A neighbour recommended using Advantage - result, no sign of fleas at all.

Plus have a look at this article to save money.

www.pet-informed-veterinary-advice-online.com/advantage-flea-control.html#advantage-cheap

I found the cheapest place to buy it from was Vet UK (Half the price to what Pets At Home Sell it for -

www.vetuk.co.uk/flea-treatments-advantage-flea-control-c-3_660

I bought the Extra large dog one - just one pipette (You get 4 pipettes in the pack)of it will treat up to 10 cats if they weigh under 4 kg or 5 treatments if they weigh over 5kg

[smeghead]

If you've got leather sofas..keep your dogs off them for about 2hrs min when applying advantage.. Our dark chocolate leather suite now has light patches in places advantage will take the colour out of leather.. Also if u need flea spray for the house the vet will try to sell you indorex (which is brilliant) at £25 a can..you'll need 3 cans for average house but if you look online you can get it for £11 delivered

[Chrissie]

smeghead good prices again at Vet UK for House flea spray -

www.vetuk.co.uk/flea-treatments-household-flea-sprays-c-3_419

I bought the Acclaim one & one can was enough for the whole of my cottage -

www.vetuk.co.uk/flea-treatments-household-flea-sprays-c-3_419/acclaim-flea-spray-500ml-can-p-16

[zeldamum]

I am glad you posted this here Chrissie, thank you for saying about it. Advantage works well. Due to do mine tomorrow (unless it is chucking it down outside). Thank you for getting me some last week.

[Chrissie]

YW Helen, it made it even cheaper buying the 3x4 packs (one for you, one for a neighbour that also has 7 cats & one for me) as we not only got it at the cheaper rate for buying more than one, but it meant free postage as well I love a bargain

[fred]

Unfortunately, looks like its only for fleas, not ticks.
We NEED protection from ticks, for both the cats and the dogs.

Currently use effipro, which is exactly the same as frontline, only shed loads cheaper - never have a problem with fleas, and only get dead ticks.
We use a cat pipette on the chooks every now and again, to stop lice and red mite.

[smeghead]

The indorex spray is the one the vet will try to flog u if u should ever get infested.. We did last year..never again its not nice seeing the carpet move..

[lynwlt]

I use Advantage too on my two dogs and one cat.

We had a bit of a flea problem earlier this year and Frontline did nothing..
Tried Effipro which also did nothing to solve the problem.

Advantage worked wonders and was particularly cost effective because I could use it on both dogs and cat.

I too bought it on-line for a ridiculously low price.

[Chrissie]

fred it's interesting that you are finding that a fipronil treatment is still working for you, where it doesn't for so many others. I wonder if it's down to location? I.e. fleas in certain parts of the country have mutated to become immune to Fiprinol more quickly than other areas?

[ronaldo]

I buy mine from Hyperdrug online and recently moved to fipronil and I am sure the fleas just laughed at me I got in touch with them and they said I must have used it wrong I wont use them again

I will give the advantage a go

[dragon]

Frontline stopped working on our cat 6mths ago, the vet was no help, said we had to keep using it as it could take up to 6mths to work ... bought advantage from somewhere else and it seems to be working

Just be glad you are in the U.K. if you want to worm a cat (or dog) here you have to get a proscription from the vet, it's impossible to buy over the counter anywhere and so you have to pay a hefty "proscription charge" on top

[Chrissie]

Aug 9, 2014 21:52:03 GMT ronaldo said:

I buy mine from Hyperdrug online and recently moved to fipronil and I am sure the fleas just laughed at me I got in touch with them and they said I must have used it wrong I wont use them again

I will give the advantage a go

ronaldo Advantage really does work (for now) I was tearing my hair out when Stronghold stopped working. Decided to try a fipronil one again, hoping that just a change would help - but the fleas laughed at me as well. Within 24 hours of using Advantage I was finding dead/dying fleas on my cats & after 2 days - not a trace of them to be seen. Plus 3 weeks later, still not a sign of them or any flea dirt.

[ronaldo]

Aug 9, 2014 22:01:18 GMT Chrissie said:

Aug 9, 2014 21:52:03 GMT ronaldo said:

I buy mine from Hyperdrug online and recently moved to fipronil and I am sure the fleas just laughed at me I got in touch with them and they said I must have used it wrong I wont use them again

I will give the advantage a go

ronaldo Advantage really does work (for now) I was tearing my hair out when Stronghold stopped working. Decided to try a fipronil one again, hoping that just a change would help - but the fleas laughed at me as well. Within 24 hours of using Advantage I was finding dead/dying fleas on my cats & after 2 days - not a trace of them to be seen. Plus 3 weeks later, still not a sign of them or any flea dirt.

will have to get some then thank you as I have a anaemic cat and fleas got hold of her 4 years ago and I had to pay for blood transfusions cost a fortune and the vet said it was all down to fleas 

[lynwlt]

I don't routinely treat my little pack for fleas, just as and when required.

If the guidelines for applying the treatment tell me to avoid contact with the chemical involved then I guess it is fairly toxic, and I don't want to subject my animals to that if I don't need to.

This year has been an exception, probably due to the heat index...

I use the same logic when it comes to vaccinations.

These are 'Bread and Butter' to most vets, despite research that suggests that vaccinations are good for at least 3 years, probably more.

I have a friend who lives in USA and who treats her cat with Frontline every month, says he sleeps for two days after every treatment....

I think we 'over treat' our animals and it will come back to bite us, much like the current antibiotic failure is now doing.

[enjay]

I used the advantage last time but it didn't work very well, maybe worked for a few days but that was about it so got the frontline again as that seems to work better on my moggies.


I only treat them if it gets out of hand too, don't do it every four weeks or that, fleas is just part of their life and living in the sticks it's inevitable they're gonna be around.