catlady
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Animals I love: cats
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Post by catlady on May 31, 2013 20:16:54 GMT
What does everyone use.... we rehomed jess from cats protection and the foster carer that was looking after her said not to use frontline for fleas and that she was using stronghold. . . After my husband spoke to the vets he was told that frontline was perfectly safe.... we have been given frontline combo... anybody else use this?
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Post by tonib on May 31, 2013 20:47:40 GMT
Frontline is safe, but occasionally a cat can react to it as they can to any drug. One of ours landed up with a bald spot about where it was applied. The vet put it down to a reaction to Frontline & fed that back to the manufacturers but our other 3 are fine with it. We've moved Roman on to Advocate, the vet was suggesting that or Advantage but the other 3 are still using it. However the issue with Frontline is that the belief is that some fleas are gaining an immunity to it and hence it is becoming ineffective. Although I'm not sure that applies to Frontline Combo, which we don't use. All I can say is that our cats (all outdoor cats) don't seem to have any problem with fleas (famous last words )
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Post by gladys on Jun 1, 2013 0:00:17 GMT
I use Frontline on my two cats and no problems.
What's the difference between Frontline and frontline combo??
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catlady
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Animals I love: cats
Pets I own: Cat
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Post by catlady on Jun 1, 2013 8:40:53 GMT
Hi, frontline combo covers fleas, ticks and biting lice... as far as I know frontline covers just flead and ticks....
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Post by SarahHound on Jun 1, 2013 8:45:32 GMT
Frontline is safe, no doubt there, however its not been very effective this year. Even the Combo version, for about a month, whilst wearing it, my Auntie's dog and 3 cats were crawling with fleas, she had an absolute nightmare trying to get rid of them.
I'm using Advocate. We have no fleas, but ticks are still going strong.
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Post by gladys on Jun 1, 2013 12:06:37 GMT
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Post by caz2golden on Jun 23, 2013 22:50:16 GMT
Frontline is safe, no doubt there, however its not been very effective this year. Even the Combo version, for about a month, whilst wearing it, my Auntie's dog and 3 cats were crawling with fleas, she had an absolute nightmare trying to get rid of them. I'm using Advocate. We have no fleas, but ticks are still going strong. Does Advocate cover ticks, I am sure the dog version does not!! Cant really comment as I dont have a cat so never investigated the cat version!! Just thought I would wade in with no knowledge
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Post by SarahHound on Jun 24, 2013 14:24:50 GMT
Frontline is safe, no doubt there, however its not been very effective this year. Even the Combo version, for about a month, whilst wearing it, my Auntie's dog and 3 cats were crawling with fleas, she had an absolute nightmare trying to get rid of them. I'm using Advocate. We have no fleas, but ticks are still going strong. Does Advocate cover ticks, I am sure the dog version does not!! Cant really comment as I dont have a cat so never investigated the cat version!! Just thought I would wade in with no knowledge Yes, both the cat and dog version do
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Post by caz2golden on Jun 24, 2013 22:56:39 GMT
That's strange. My mums vets is moving to Advocate as standard and when mum asked would it cover ticks for the holiday they were having (with dog) they said no!!
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Post by lotsofcats on Jun 25, 2013 8:40:27 GMT
I used Frontline and Frontline Combo for years on my cats and the fleas kept coming back each month. Last year I used Advocate on them all and they were flea-free at last. Advocate is very expensive (especially as I have 7 cats) but it is worth it in the long run. Only thing is you have to buy it off the vets or it's prescription only. I did manage to buy some once from a French company through Amazon but I can't now, they must have realised they shouldn't sell it without prescription.
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Post by judypops on Jun 25, 2013 8:47:40 GMT
We don't treat for fleas. My parents aren't the 'preventative' type and to be honest I don't really want to give them chemicals that the don't absolutely need. We have never and touch wood will never have fleas, and all our cats lived in ditches before we got them!
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Post by SarahHound on Jun 25, 2013 9:41:39 GMT
That's strange. My mums vets is moving to Advocate as standard and when mum asked would it cover ticks for the holiday they were having (with dog) they said no!! Sorry, just realised you are right! I just had a re-read of my packet, you're correct, it only does fleas. I was sure it did ticks as last time I put it on several ticks fell off and dried up, like they do with others, so I assumed. My apologies! I'm still using it though, its fleas I have issues with, ticks I don't mind so much.
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Post by caz2golden on Jun 25, 2013 18:54:17 GMT
Maybe it does work on ticks but perhaps not to a level that they can claim it does!
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