Flea treatment that works?

[jennieflower]

I'm a huge animal lover but hate the bloody fleas, I have 2 dogs and 2 cats which are all treated with frontline/advocate, they're all combed daily with a flea comb and the few carpets we have are treated with RIP Flea regularly but I still keep finding fleas, particularly on the cats. What can I do?

Strangely us humans are never bitten, just keep finding very lively fleas when we comb them every night.

Could you switch to stronghold? Lonecats spoken about a flea collar that works but I can't remember the name.

The bob johnsons stuff is lethal so avoid that range.

Just because we treat with flea protection it doesn't mean the cat won't get them, more that the ones they do pick up will drink the blood and get poisoned by the advocate etc and die before they can re-produce.

Are you hoovering thoroughly, jennie ?(Including on wooden floors - at the cracks and skirting boards etc.) I know you've been spraying carpets but flea eggs can live an awfully long time and if they're waiting there then the minute the meds wear off they're ready to go.

You have to get a bit Stepford Wives, I'm afraid.

I have 2 cats and religiously use Stronghold on them every month. I hope I'm not jinxing it to say so, but have seen nothing on them or in house.

One of my cats has a lot of white on him. I think any flea evidence would show easily so I use him as the benchmark. Nothing seen on him yet so I assume my other darker coloured cat is fine too.

I get the prescription from the vet for 6 mths supply for each of them, then I use the prescription to buy online.

We periodically have this problem and we have to stay on top of it religiously. We switched from frontline to stronghold, having been told by vets they build immunity. recently the vet has stopped using frontline completely, as they don't think it is as effective as stronghold.

Sometimes though fleas get onto the cats from other cats. It doesn't mean your's are infected again, just that a flea or two has got onto them. It doesn't stop me going 'arrrgh!' and running for the spray though.

I have posted a very comprehensive reply for you on your thread in the dog house.

My vet indicated that normal use if front line etc helps stop cats getting fleas it doesn't eliminate them once there's an infestation. Apparently cats can drop them in long grass and pick them up again another day so they could be bringing them in each day. Vhat to your vet, but mine recommended doing front line etc every 2 weeks for 3 months and that with daily vacuuming seemed to work. Should probably get advice though.