Flea Medicine Question

[Catlady711]

A vet's office is about the only place you're going to find that will offer single doses of Frontline, etc. Law requires those medications to be sold in their original packages with the inserts and stuff. The vets can break up packs for long time clients if they have an insert to give out with it. Online places, and pet stores can't do this.

[Roxyluvsme13]

I was looking on Amazon and Ebay and places like that to see if they had single doses and I'm guessing my best bet is Ebay. I would pay the $41 to get them flea meds but it was my mom's money and she said we'd look for it cheaper somewhere else, so...

I'll see what I can do though.

Isabel, if you think of the brand name, let me know

[Freedom]

I've never seen single doses on line, and I buy both the dogs' and the cats' on line.

Keep in mind, if you buy 3 doses, the cost per dose is higher than if you buy a 6 pack. And a 6 pack will cost more, per dose, than a 12 pack.

If you know you are are going to use 6 doses, I' suggest you just get that.

I go a bit nutty with online buying an often set up a spread sheet to figure out which site has the best price.

[Roxyluvsme13]

I've never seen single doses on line, and I buy both the dogs' and the cats' on line.

Keep in mind, if you buy 3 doses, the cost per dose is higher than if you buy a 6 pack. And a 6 pack will cost more, per dose, than a 12 pack.

If you know you are are going to use 6 doses, I' suggest you just get that.

I go a bit nutty with online buying an often set up a spread sheet to figure out which site has the best price.

I know it's cheaper if you buy multiple doses, since one does for Tallulah and one dose for Lily was going to be $41 but I found like a 4 pack of Advantage for $37.99 or something like that. I dunno, I'll just have to discuss what I find with my mom and see what she says. Maybe it will be cheaper at a different vet's office as well.

[Seravieve]

Last year when the people I work for had fleas with their cats, I bought some flea meds for our three... other than that, we never use it. Never had a problem. Just got it in case I happened to bring them home.. yuck!

I got a box of BioSpot from Petsmart.. was ~$16 or so for 3 doses. It had the egg killer stuff in it.. drawing a blank on the name. Seemed to work.. no fleas ever showed up.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Last year when the people I work for had fleas with their cats, I bought some flea meds for our three... other than that, we never use it. Never had a problem. Just got it in case I happened to bring them home.. yuck!

I got a box of BioSpot from Petsmart.. was ~$16 or so for 3 doses. It had the egg killer stuff in it.. drawing a blank on the name. Seemed to work.. no fleas ever showed up.

So BioSpot is okay? I hadn't bought any of the store brand stuff because the vet said don't use it. We asked the Banfield people inside of Petsmart last time we were flea-med shopping and I knew that one of the brands (Hartz?) is poisonous or something like that...

I'll look into BioSpot though, thanks!

[Seravieve]

I don't know anything about that... I don't see how they could sell something thats poisonous... We used it on all three dogs and didnt have any problems. I only used it for a month though until they got rid of their fleas at where I work. I don't know if you mean stuff you can't use around cats maybe? We don't have cats so I don't know about that.. All I did was research a brand that had the IGR (growth regulator) that prevented eggs from hatching that I could find relatively cheap.