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**Mymnnarry** · 02-12-2006, 09:24 PM

Frontline is a good one, available in a lot of pet shops and pharmacys now. Fiproline is newer to the market and uses Fipronil, the same ingredient as Frontline but around £1 a pipette cheaper. The other god option is Advantage which has also been reclassified from POM-V to NFA-VPS making it available without prescription and outside of veterinarians now. This one uses Imacloprid as the active ingredient which is also proven to help treat the immediate environment in the home and is also good if you have a house rabbit as frontline is highly toxic. (Bob Martins Double Action Spot On is the best over the counter one I have found using same ingredient as Advantage). Remember a lot of the cheaper dog flea products (containing Permethrin) are also highly toxic to cats so multipet households should be very wary of the product they use.

The good flea treatments pay for themselves in my opinion as if you end up with fleas in your house after using the cheap options you will spend a lot more time and money trying to eradicate the problem than if you had just prevented it in the first place.

Only 5% of a flea problem ison your animal, the other 95% will be in your environment, bet that makes you itch a bit!

02-12-2006, 09:24 PM	#3
Mymnnarry Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 641 Senior Member	Frontline is a good one, available in a lot of pet shops and pharmacys now. Fiproline is newer to the market and uses Fipronil, the same ingredient as Frontline but around £1 a pipette cheaper. The other god option is Advantage which has also been reclassified from POM-V to NFA-VPS making it available without prescription and outside of veterinarians now. This one uses Imacloprid as the active ingredient which is also proven to help treat the immediate environment in the home and is also good if you have a house rabbit as frontline is highly toxic. (Bob Martins Double Action Spot On is the best over the counter one I have found using same ingredient as Advantage). Remember a lot of the cheaper dog flea products (containing Permethrin) are also highly toxic to cats so multipet households should be very wary of the product they use. The good flea treatments pay for themselves in my opinion as if you end up with fleas in your house after using the cheap options you will spend a lot more time and money trying to eradicate the problem than if you had just prevented it in the first place. Only 5% of a flea problem ison your animal, the other 95% will be in your environment, bet that makes you itch a bit!
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