Spot-on flea products are applied to the pet. A few drops are placed on the scruff of the neck, under the fur. Most spot-on products contain adulticides designed to eliminate adult fleas from the pet within 24 hours of application.
Benefits of spot-on flea control
- Rapid relief from adult fleas on the pet
- Easy to apply
- Convenient monthly treatment
Orally administered products can be used to eliminate both adult fleas on the pet, and flea eggs laid around the house.
Insect Growth Regulators
When a pet is treated with an oral insect growth regulator, it circulates in the animal's bloodstream. Then, if a flea bites the pet, it ingests the insect growth regulator and passes it on to its eggs, rendering them unable to hatch.
With these products, you can have confidence that even if you do see adult fleas on your pet, they will be unable to infest your house with flea eggs. This removes the need to spray insecticides around your house, and makes them ideally suited for preventative flea control.
In fact, oral insect growth regulators can also be used to eliminate an existing household infestation. In this case, once you start treating the pet, any fleas already in the house will hatch, leap aboard the pet, and die without laying any more viable eggs.
These products are available in liquid form for cats and as tablets for dogs, from veterinary surgeons only. They are given in-food once a month.
- Effective prevention / removal of fleas in the home.
- Protection for the home without the need to use household insecticides, vacuuming etc.
- Easy to give, in food.
- For dogs, there is a combined insect growth regulator / worming treatment available.
- Convenient monthly dosing.
Capstar is an oral adulticide specially developed to offer the fastest removal of adult fleas from a pet. It starts working within as little as 15 minutes, and removes fleas for 24 hours thereafter.
This means that Capstar is ideal for using 'if and when' adult fleas are seen on the pet, in combination with long term use of an insect growth regulator.
Because it kills fleas so fast, Capstar can also be especially useful for those pets that are allergic to fleas.
- Fastest relief from adult fleas on the pet.
- Especially useful for the removal of fleas from pets that are allergic to them.
An injectable flea control product is available for cats. It contains an insect growth regulator which prevents fleas from being able to lay viable eggs around your home for a full six months.
When a cat is treated with an injectable insect growth regulator, it circulates in the animal's bloodstream. Then, if a flea bites the cat (which it will), it ingests the insect growth regulator and passes it on to its eggs, rendering them unable to hatch.
With this product, you can have confidence that even if you do see adult fleas on your cat, they will be unable to infest your house with flea eggs. This removes the need to spray insecticides around your house, and makes the product ideally suited for preventative flea control.
In fact, injectable insect growth regulators can also be used to eliminate an existing household infestation. In this case, once you start treating the pet, any fleas already in the house will hatch, leap aboard the pet, and die without laying any more viable eggs.
Benefits of injectable Insect Growth Regulator
- Long term household flea protection from one application.
- Protection for the home without the need to use household insecticides, vacuuming etc.
- No need to remember monthly treatments.
- Ideal for people who have difficulty giving or applying other forms of flea medication.
To kill fleas, we obviously need to know where they are. That’s the difficulty with household sprays. Flea eggs will be dropped around the house wherever the cat or dog goes. Problem is, you won’t always know where that is.
There is only one place we know with absolute certainty that fleas MUST spend part of their lives, and that's on the cat or dog.
That’s why it is always better to treat the pet, not the house.
1 comments:
Thanks for the clear information.. These products are best when used as a support for flea control and might be effective for full flea control on cats. Oral flea medication for cats
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