Our all the time indoor cat that is 3 years old has been battling fleas. It first had flees about a month and a half ago. I took it to a vet and for $140.00 the cat got one shot it needed, and a drop was placed on its head that was suppose-too last for a month, and we were given some more of the drops to apply once every month. 17 days later the flees came back. The directions for the drops said that the earliest we should apply the next drop was three weeks, so I went to a pet store and bought some flee shampoo and gave the cat a bath and rinse. That kept the flees off for about ten days and they came back. I placed an additional drop on the back of the cats head and that has kept the flees away until two days ago, when one showed up on her belly. I know the drops take about 12 hours to kill a flee once it is on the cat so I did nothing and apparently the drop is still working because we see no flees today.
By the way we washed everything the cat normally lays on.
When I was at the vet, one of the options the vet gave us was to use a flee collar, but I tried a cheap store bought one on a cat we had in the past and that cat went crazy just running everywhere around the house nonstop until I removed the collar, so this time I decided to go with the drops instead of a collar.
I am thinking of using a flee collar on the cat if the flees come back again.
When I tried the flee collar on a previous cat it was a cheap one that I got from Walmart. When I recently bought the flee shampoo at a pet store there were expensive flee collars ranging in price up to $69.00. And Walmart currently has flee collars ranging in price from $4.99 to $49.00
The low cost flee collars at Walmart are Hartz brand and I am concerned that the low cost Hartz collars might have chemicals that are too harsh.
So my question is what flee collars work but are not too harsh? The cheaper the better but If we have to we will get the most expensive collars.
By the way we washed everything the cat normally lays on.
When I was at the vet, one of the options the vet gave us was to use a flee collar, but I tried a cheap store bought one on a cat we had in the past and that cat went crazy just running everywhere around the house nonstop until I removed the collar, so this time I decided to go with the drops instead of a collar.
I am thinking of using a flee collar on the cat if the flees come back again.
When I tried the flee collar on a previous cat it was a cheap one that I got from Walmart. When I recently bought the flee shampoo at a pet store there were expensive flee collars ranging in price up to $69.00. And Walmart currently has flee collars ranging in price from $4.99 to $49.00
The low cost flee collars at Walmart are Hartz brand and I am concerned that the low cost Hartz collars might have chemicals that are too harsh.
So my question is what flee collars work but are not too harsh? The cheaper the better but If we have to we will get the most expensive collars.
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