Which flea treatment do you use?

[missladybird]

Still seeing fleas after using frontline. Which would you recommend?

Advantage...frontline didn’t work for us and made the cat really stroppy.

I think we have Frontline, I do the pets at home £10 a month plan. Its annual jabs, and flea & worm treatment. I will have a look.

She hasnt ever had fleas.

Also, I might be being a bit daft here but why do you still have to spray the house if the stronger treatments kill fleas as soon as they jump on to the cat? Would hoovering not suffice?

Advocate from the vet

Bravecto last three months for fleas and ticks, they only have to hate me once every three months.

Stronghold from the vet. Used to use Frontline but my cat got fleas on it and the vet told me they were increasingly finding that Frontline wasn’t working.

Bravecto here too. Frontline was useless on our cats, ditto Broadline.

Cat1: Frontline £2.70 /dose
Cat2: Frontline combo £3.70/dose
Cat3: something else that also has dewormer in it (£5.50/dose)

Cat3 is a bastard to give a worm pill to.

That worked fine until a few months ago when the cats started scratching LOTS and grooming more, plus I've had some flea bites. :( :( I may resort to not using Frontline at all in future, after I run out of current stash.

Someone said "Oh yes everyone knows Frontline doesn't work.... My stuff is so good that I only have to put the flea stuff on my cats once a year." You do hear a lot of nonsense about Frontline, too.

Prescription stuff from the vet.

Frontline didn't work, our vet said it's been on the market a long time and widely used so fleas have built up a resistance.

Absolute pain to have to remember to order and pick it up every month though!

Bravecto here too. Been using about a year and very impressed with it

Advantage.

And i indorex the house every spring

Is indorex ok to use with small children around? Really anxious about using it!

Adopted a 3 year old cat a couple of months ago. I was told she had been treated with Frontline before she came to me and a I have treated her twice since, but she is still scratching. I have also found fleas/flea dirt when combing her.

Advantage here, it's the only non-prescription spot on that works.

Unless your children are insects they will be fine.

Obviously there are some risks with Indorex but if you follow the instructions there is nothing to worry about.

Indorex is fine as long as you leave the house for an hour then open all the windows afterwards. You do need to hoover like mad before and after.

Although Bravecto is expensive it works brilliantly.

Advantage.
The only one that works.

Frontline is shit!
In many areas of the country it is completely ineffective.
Advocate for fleas monthly.
Profender spot on wormer every three months.

We use Profender for worms and Bravecto for fleas. We used to use Advocate but changed to Bravecto when the Advocate damaged our sofa.

If you vacuum like mad after applying the Indorex then you just suck it up & don't leave much to kill the new fleas. You need to do the opposite of that advice, leave it down for 3 days without vacuuming to make sure it kills 'em. (Told me by pest control guy). And don't vacuum heavily after that for a few weeks.

Indorex wouldn't be sold for sale for use in homes if it wasn't reasonably safe for humans, OP. Might want to stop your baby crawling a lot in the freshly sprayed places, obviously.

You're going OTT by my standards. I sprayed the house with Indorex once 5 yrs ago & haven't felt a need to spray again. I grew up in Flea-infested homes, though, so am not freaked out, although I am allergic to their bites so do need to control flea numbers.

I use Stronghold ( active ingredient selamectin) prescribed from the vet. It's a once a month spot on treatment and is supposed to treat ear mites and other parasites too. It cost me £60 for 6 months treatment. You could probably buy it on line for a cheaper price but the dose is based on weight so I prefer to get it from the vet when he goes for a check up .

Sorry- I've just checked the last prescription and the stronghold was only £32 for 6 months (also had worming tablet and VAT Included in the £60 I initially said 🙄)

So am I going OUT by spraying the indorex? Will treating the cat suffice?

Broadline (flees and worm combo) from vet. About £8 dose, but only needs doing once every 2 weeks and eirks very well.

Every 2 months, not weeks.