My poor old tom (actually only 2 yo) always comes home infested with fleas.
I used flea powder until he started refusing to let me apply it. I guess it doesn't taste too good. :)
A couple of months ago I switched to pills (I'm saving the spot-on stuff for last resort) which I crush up and put in tuna -- about the only thing he'll eat and that has a strong enough small to mask nasties like worm paste &ct.
Anyway. One day he was scratching quite a bit so I crushed up a pill and fed him.
The directions say it starts to work in 30 mins. About 1 hr after eating he started to scratch REALLY a lot -- so it seems the first reaction of the fleas to the meds to to bit even harder.
Within a day all the fleas appeared to be dead.
Anyway, the vet says a grooming cat (my tom just qualifies under this heading :) can remove 75% of fleas in 24 hrs but the next thing to worry about is tapeworm infestation because wild fleas are normally carriers.
Oct 14, 2009 Rating
med's by: Anonymous
I just sprayed the house for fleas, applied frontline plus and brought my girl back in. As other comments on this site she walked on furniture as much as posable. My thoughts were she was avoiding the fleas. She quit sleeping on my bed and that’s ok until fleas are under control. She is not the same. The frontline is not acting fast as reported. I powdered her down with a flea powder and gave her a bath with flea shampoo about two weeks after the first application of frontline. The first spraying was with bombs and really didn’t work, had fleas jumping on me two weeks after. Sprayed with household flea spry that doesn’t have the problems of the bombs. Much better, my girl seems better but I just don’t like putting the crap med's on her. Not enough research. Got to be something better and safer. I’m afraid to treat her with the last two. I wouldn’t put it on me!
Sep 23, 2009 Rating
Yes its the medicine by: L
Hi there! My cat acts weird every month for a couple days after I give him the medicine. What he does is he wont sleep in his bed and it drives me nutts...
there is something weird about the flea medicine and I dont know what it is! unfortunately we have to give our cats this medicine otherwise the will get worms...but there has to be a better medicine out there...so if you figure it out let me know!
