How often should i treat my indoor cats? I was thinking every 8 weeks.

What would you recommend for spot ons and house treatments?

Thanks

I don't treat my indoor cat at all, I have a flea comb which I comb her with every couple of days. If I found a flea or any flea dirt I'd treat her then, to date I never have. I don't see the point in putting chemicals into cats unnecessarily.

I found a flea on me as my cat was on my lap. so will treat them with a spot on treatment.

And also spray the house down.

But im glad i dont have to continuesly do so

Ours go into our enclosed yard which has some bigger cats around it some of the time, so we use Advocate as a precaution, mainly for worms. However, with 2 cats we only apply to one cat per month and then the other cat the next month.

Our vet reckons that since they don't go out of our yard, we would be fine on 3 syrettes per cat per year, alternating cats every 2 months.

Also, if you use advocate you don't need to spray your house, just let the cat have free run of the place and they'll all die, you just need to hoover the aftermath.

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Agree with the others! I only treat as and when necessary and mine are indoor/outdoor. I found in the past we were relatively flea free but in recent years it appears there are definitely more of them about!

Frontline is virtually useless now with so many fleas become immune. I use Advantage at the moment since I've lots left over from last summer. Advocate is also very good.

I've found Stay-Kil very effective for treating the environment. It's available online and you only require a few sprays in each room with good results.

Is that right? My house mate is allergic to insecticides so this would be really handy to do. Was dreading spraying the house. Will look into getting some advocate then

My cats are under 4kg atm but are likely to get bigger esp rogue.

Do i buy the large 4-8kg or under 4kg? Would the larger dose hurt them?

As i would buy to last them the year

Basically Advocate will kill all fleas that come into contact with your cat for about a month, the documentation says to treat the environment as well and says that once treatment has begun fleas may continue to hatch from the environment for a period of six weeks, but in my experience this is not necessary. I have found that letting the cats run around the house, combing and hoovering everyday for a couple of weeks yields great results.

If a flea jumps on an 'advocated' cat, they're dead. If the cat comes into direct contact with Larvae, Pupae etc... they are dead, this effect lasts for a month.

The key to advocate is that it lasts a month (although since using it, the only fleas we've had were from a new kitten) most other treatments only last 24 - 48 hours so you have to get all fleas within that period. It is effective enough that when my cat went to stay at a friends house who had a small flea problem with her two cats, after two weeks I picked our cat up and my friend said that she hadn't combed a living flea from her cats for the last week.

I swear by the stuff and I have never sprayed the house, and never will. Just make sure that you comb and hoover everyday for a couple of weeks, if anything just to pick up all of the dead ones.

>> You'll be fine with the 'under 4kg', don't use the other one if you only have small cats.

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I have only ever seen one flea in my house. It wasnt even on the cat it was on my house mate sitting next to me and rogue on my lap. Not seen a speck on the cats

Ok thank you

I strongly suggest you to hire a Professional to treat inside and out. or bifen will also works great.

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