Flea Medicine Question

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And I would be careful with Advantage. It's not supposed to be used around cats, and I see you own one.

It's actually advantix that is not supposed to be used on Cats. They make feline Advantage, I have it in my cabinet right now! LOL

I've never heard this before and I've been using advantage(regular advantage not advantage multi) on all of my cats for years. I actually buy the large dog advantage and then I measure out what I need on each cat. This way I save a lot of money. My former vet actually recommended this to me to save me some money. It's the same stuff that you use on cats but it just comes in a larger doseage so you have to know how much your animal weighs and then you measure it out according to weight. I usually buy mine online.

If you have 2 dogs that are different weights then you can buy a larger dog one and then measure out what you need each time. I put it in a testube with a lid and then I use a syringe that I premark with some tape. I've used this every month on my cats for years without any problems. On my cats I make sure to squirt it out in about 3-4 spots not all in one spot so it's less irritating to their skin. Good luck.

I do this with Frontline! Several years ago a me and a friend of mine I used to work with, back at the last vet clinic I worked at, sat down on our lunch break and looked at each box on frontline and wrote down the amount per ML that was in each dose size of Frontline -- from the smallest size (feline -- .5ml) to the largest - dogs 89-132lb does (4.02ml), and I have the sheet with the doses for each size hanging on the inside of the cabinet door I keep my dog supplies in!... so now I just buy the largest frontline and use a syringe to measure out what I need for each dogs dose..

The last time I was at my vets office (different from where I used to work) I heard a lady say she wanted to buy the largest dog size to treat all of her cats.... so apparently more people do it now.