Haven't been on for a while. I've had an incredibly busy few weeks and discovered we have nasty neighbours but that's another story for another time.
When we fostered Fluffy, we know her owner religiously Frontlined her every month. It would seem that the fleas became resistant to Frontline. I did my cats with Flea Screen which turns out to be the same ingredients as Frontline so switched to Advantage which has different ingredients. Fluffy and six of my cats no longer have fleas but two still do - Kira and Lucky. Lucky was absolutely moving with them so we tried him with the Frontlne again and Kira again with the Advantage. A lot of the fleas on Lucky were killed but he still had too many - so far my son has combed out with the flea comb approx. 20 of the little horrors in the past 3 days. He found one small one on Kira but she does have a flea allergy and she's literally tearing herself to pieces and has been overgrooming badly. She has quite a few large bald spots. The two of them are off to the vet on Thursday and I'll pick up Indorex to use in the house, carpets, furnishings etc. while I'm there. Used it years ago and it was very good. Stops any eggs and larvae lurking in the carpet/furnishings from developing.
Who would have thought doing a good turn would lead to an infestation of fleas but no matter, we'll deal with it. All the cats have been wormed. If they have fleas, guaranteed they'll have worms as well.
It never rains but it pours
When we fostered Fluffy, we know her owner religiously Frontlined her every month. It would seem that the fleas became resistant to Frontline. I did my cats with Flea Screen which turns out to be the same ingredients as Frontline so switched to Advantage which has different ingredients. Fluffy and six of my cats no longer have fleas but two still do - Kira and Lucky. Lucky was absolutely moving with them so we tried him with the Frontlne again and Kira again with the Advantage. A lot of the fleas on Lucky were killed but he still had too many - so far my son has combed out with the flea comb approx. 20 of the little horrors in the past 3 days. He found one small one on Kira but she does have a flea allergy and she's literally tearing herself to pieces and has been overgrooming badly. She has quite a few large bald spots. The two of them are off to the vet on Thursday and I'll pick up Indorex to use in the house, carpets, furnishings etc. while I'm there. Used it years ago and it was very good. Stops any eggs and larvae lurking in the carpet/furnishings from developing.
Who would have thought doing a good turn would lead to an infestation of fleas but no matter, we'll deal with it. All the cats have been wormed. If they have fleas, guaranteed they'll have worms as well.
It never rains but it pours