Flea-free and Frugal!
For years my friends have been telling me to use 'spot' flea products in larger sizes intended for dogs, divided for my cats. I have resisted this, thinking that it wasn't safe or easy to do. Frugality finally won, and I have sucessfully completed my first round of treatment with Advantage, packaged for 100-pound dogs. I used a tiny glass vial, from a vaccine my vet sent for use at home, and a small needle-less syringe to measure out the right amount of the product. I used one and a half of the 4.0 ml. treatment vials for my group of 10 cats, for a total cost of around $15. (The package of four vials was on sale for $41.25.) If purchased in the 'cat-sized' packages, the amount of flea treatment I used would have cost me about $160. I had never considered flea treatment a 'racket' before, but I certainly do now, and I will be talking with my vet about this. It is a shame for pets to suffer, as I know they do, when flea treatment is so affordable.
Here is the link to a very helpful page that I used when figuring out how to go about flea treatment more frugally.
http://www.lisaviolet.com/cathouse/advantage.html
Another bonus to this method is that there's less of the irritating packaging to deal with. The whole process was quicker and less disturbing to the cats than it had been with the traditional method.
*Safety note*-- I did a lot of research before trying this for the first time. You need to take your time and know what you're doing....be especially careful in measuring out the flea treatment, and NEVER use one of the newer dog-specific products (K9 Advantix, for instance) on cats.
And, for feral cats, check out the blog post of 8/14/10 about a similar technique using an oral medication......
Here is the link to a very helpful page that I used when figuring out how to go about flea treatment more frugally.
http://www.lisaviolet.com/cathouse/advantage.html
Another bonus to this method is that there's less of the irritating packaging to deal with. The whole process was quicker and less disturbing to the cats than it had been with the traditional method.
*Safety note*-- I did a lot of research before trying this for the first time. You need to take your time and know what you're doing....be especially careful in measuring out the flea treatment, and NEVER use one of the newer dog-specific products (K9 Advantix, for instance) on cats.
And, for feral cats, check out the blog post of 8/14/10 about a similar technique using an oral medication......