Flea Treatments For Cats And Dogs

• Overview

• Spot-on Flea Treatments

• Oral Flea Treatments

• Injectable Flea Control

• Household Flea Sprays

• Integrated Flea Control

• Flea Treatment Tips

Oral Flea Treatments

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 tablet and liquid form for cats, and in tablet form for dogs, from veterinary surgeons only. They can be given in-food once a month.

Orally administered products can be used to eliminate both adult fleas on the pet, and flea eggs laid around the house.

 

 

Adulticides

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.