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Flea control
New once-a-month flea products from your veterinarian work well enough and fast enough that even if you have a heavy flea infestation, you won't need to fumigate your house or spray the yard. Simply treat your your pets. Fleas jump on pets, fleas die.
Revolution
Applied to the skin like Frontline or Advantage, Revolution i kills fleas and also prevents heartworms. It is easy to use, highly effective, and less expensive than using a monthly flea product in addition to a monthly heartworm product. We usually recommend Revolution in preference to the alternatives, especially for cats.
Frontline
Frontline is one of the most effective flea medication we've got and unfortunately one of the more expensive. Frontline Plus contains (S)-methoprene, an ingredient that prevents reproduction by fleas that aren't killed by Frontline alone.
Because Frontline depends on natural skin oils to spread itself around, it's best to wait about two days after bathing before applying the product and avoid bathing or swimming for a couple of days afterwards.
When used monthly, Frontline does a decent job of controlling ticks and is the only satisfactory product for tick control in cats.
Frontline spray
Frontline Spray works the same as Frontline Top Spot. For cats and small dogs, Frontline spray is also much less expensive. Using Frontline spot treatment for cats costs about twelve dollars a month; the spray costs about a dollar- a huge difference. Frontline Spray is the least expensive way to effectively control fleas on cats and small dogs.
Advantage
Advantage is easy to use, can be applied any time and works quickly.
Comfortis
Comfortis is a once-a-month pill for flea control in dogs. It circulates in the bloodstream and kills fleas when they bite. Comfortis is a relatively new product but early indicate that it's highly effective. Some dogs object to the taste, and some dogs vomit after it is administered, but Comfortis is the only monthly flea product that stays entirely within the dog - you and your family are not exposed.
Vectra
Vectra is a once-a-month spot treatment used for flea and tick control in dogs and flea control in cats. Dog Vectra and cat Vectra are different products, but both have the same flea control ingredient. If Frontline isn't working well, Vectra or Comfortis would be good choices.
Vectra is a non-prescription drug, but the manufacturer insists that veterinarians sign a contract promising not to provide the product to web sites for resale. Hartz Control, Bio-Spot, Sargeant's Pretect, Zodiac Spot-on, Powerspot, and Defy all contain permethrin, an insecticide that has been used for many years as a flea spray. When used to prevent a flea problem, they work ok. If your pet already has fleas, get Frontline, which work better and may be less toxic than permethrin. Advantage and Frontline are safe for cats and puppies, these other products are not.
Program and Sentinel: Flea birth control
Program for flea control
A monthly flea control pill for dogs or once-every-six-months flea control injection for cats.
Pets receiving Program secrete the drug into the natural oils on their skin and fleas living on the skin absorb the drug. These fleas lay sterile eggs, but in other respects live full and happy lives. The female flea will still live about three weeks and suck blood two or three times a day. This makes Program an acceptable drug for pets that do not already have fleas and have little exposure to fleas.
The main benefit from using Program is that it controls fleas without continuous insecticide exposure for your family and pets. The main problem with Program is that when pets receiving it are exposed to fleas, they get fleas. This tends to make pets, pet owners, and veterinarians very unhappy.
Injection or pill, Program costs about the same as Advantage or Frontline.
Sentinel : for flea and heartworm Control
Sentinel contains two drugs: Interceptor, for heartworm control, and Program, for flea control. Sentinel costs about the same as using the two drugs separately, but if your dog needs both, it is slightly more convenient than giving two separate pills. My comments about Program apply equally to Sentinel
Traditional flea control products
Flea spray and powder:
Frontline Spray works ten times better, it is safer, and for small pets costs about the same.
Flea dip
Not safe for cats, but flea dip is a perfectly reasonable choice for big dogs, which are expensive to treat with other products. You need to dip the entire dog, nose to tail, every three weeks throughout flea season. Dip is a waste of time for small dogs, since Frontline spray is cheaper, more effective, and easier to use.
Flea Collars
Flea collars are still an economical and useful method of flea control when used before you see fleas. If your pet is already itchy, it is too late for collars.
Many flea collars kill adult fleas and also make flea eggs sterile. Many people, including myself, don't like the smell of flea collars or the smell and oily feeling the insecticide leaves on their hands after petting a dog wearing one.
Why are fleas still biting my ankles?
The flea life cycle:
Fleas and butterflies have the same life cycle: egg, caterpillar, cocoon, adult. The adult female lives its three week life on the dog, sucking blood two or three times and laying twenty or thirty eggs each day. Flea pupae, protected in their cocoons, are invincible. Use Revolution, Advantage or Frontline for your pets. Fleas will hatch, jump on the pet and quickly die.
Natural flea control methods
Natural or non insecticidal flea control methods, such as flea combs, eucalyptus oil, sonic collars, flea traps, brewer's yeast etc. are not very effective.
Flea Prevention Made Simple
Have you ever seen a flea? Have you ever seen your dog itching and scratching like crazy? If so then you have at least seen some of the discomfort that fleas can cause your dog. Many dogs do not seem to have flea problems but that does not mean they should not be on a flea control program.
Many dogs are allergic to flea bites and may have a reaction so why take the chance. A ton of great flea control products are available from your veterinarian and from the local pet supply store. For more severe flea issues there are flea dips and prescription medications.
Oh, so you say that you know your dog is not allergic to flea bites? Even if they are not allergic to flea bites harm can still happen. Here are a few of the disgusting results of continuous exposure to fleas. Fleas seek blood and continuous exposure can actually result in long term blood loss and possibly anemia.
If you need help in the flea elimination department just contact your vet is very knowledgeable and will be able to help you with the decision of what program to use.