Flea jab?

fancyabrew · 17-05-2010, 12:45 PM

Chloe is off for the annual pilgrimage to the vets next Monday for her booster, with all the usual chaos that that entails.

Whilst I'm there I usually get the vet to pop her a wormer pill, saves the hassle of me doing it, and this year I'm thinking of giving her a flea jab. Although we use frontline on her she is still picking up fleas, being a BSH her coat is sooooooooo dense that it can be tricky to get frontline on her skin without the added pain of shaving a couple of patches of hair, so this might be the problem.

Anyway does anyone else give their cat a flea jab, and if so, how much does it cost on how effective is it?

Ta

Kerry

angieh · 17-05-2010, 01:44 PM

Hi Kerry - sorry, never had flea jab for mine. Did find a couple of years ago that Frontline is ineffective - the fleas have built up immunity to the active ingredient. You could try Stronghold or Advantage (both work for me!) but of course, they are still spot-ons.

fancyabrew · 17-05-2010, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by angieh

Hi Kerry - sorry, never had flea jab for mine. Did find a couple of years ago that Frontline is ineffective - the fleas have built up immunity to the active ingredient. You could try Stronghold or Advantage (both work for me!) but of course, they are still spot-ons.

yeah and the other problem is they're perscription only, where as frontline you can get anywhere.

Could shave all her coat off as another option!

niki71uk · 17-05-2010, 08:16 PM

hi,my younger cat gets the flea injection,she's very stressy with nearly everything,makes it simpler,i take her every 6 mnths to the vet,cost about £40

Liz · 17-05-2010, 09:14 PM

Ours all here at the Clan Cats - all 47 of them are on the Program injection for fleas and it covers ticks to and is given every 6 months ours conicides with a booster as well so its 2 vets visit per year but totally worth it - our Dogs get teh Program tablet version for dogs and we don't have fleas or ticks here so recommend it for multi households it is so much easier than trying to frontline 30 odd ferals!

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