I have friends who split doses of various tick/flea stuff regularly.
They say they get a more precise dose given the range on the pre-
measured packages. I don't know. I can't get either on the ferals
and they really need something. My cats are basically indoor
(carriage rides and unauthorized walk-abouts) and the dog is as indoor
as a dog can be and still have fun.
On May 31, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Maureen Olvey wrote:
Thanks Sally. That is very helpful info. I didn't know you could
split up Advantage. Awesome, I'll give it a shot too.
If I didn't have a lot of cats I wouldn't do the splitting up
thing. I would feel safer just buying the pre-measured doses, I
always did it that way when I had just two dogs, but now I've got so
many cats, it's my foster cats and my own cats that were actually
fosters at one time that never got adopted, that I'd go broke just
on flea stuff if not for being able to split the stuff up. A lady
at the vet's office did the breakdown for me so I felt better about
it since she'd been doing it for a while.
Are ticks mostly around trees and stuff? I don't have trees but a
few shrubs and I haven't had tick problems (knock on wood). Not at
home anyway. Where I feed some ferals is in a wooded area and I
always seem to bring a couple home with me every few weeks. Ticks
that is. Brought home several dumped tame cats and kittens from
there too!
Thanks again for your comments.
Maureen and her clowder of more than 10 cats.
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that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it
inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward
it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without
looking further.” – Mark Twain
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:49:11 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Felvtalk] Pet Armor
Chickens will eat ticks, but if a big farm it probably is not
practical. I
am not making any real recommendations,just commenting. I am in the
horticulture field where chemicals are used for insect and disease
control,
it is always best to rotate products so you do not develop
resistance to the
chemical being used. An example would be using Frontline one month
and next
month use Advantage. You would not even have to be every month
maybe use one
for two months etc. Just a note about splitting it up They products
are the
same ingredients and are in the same concentration in both the dog
and cat
versions. Dosing in is done according to weight in dogs and cats. I
am not a
vet and I am not recommending anyone do this if they are not
certain. Also
cats are more sensitive to chemicals and some pesticides for use on
dogs
cannot be used on cats. Be safe not sorry. :-)
Now I am not going to say Sevin is safe for use on pets but in the
"old
days" it is what the vet recommended for fleas and yes we used it
on the
cats. Also I did not use gloves or anything like that because it was
considered very safe. You had to be careful not to get on flowering
plants
as it was deadly for bees. Fleas became resistant to it. We used 5%
dust not
the 10%.
For plants I do not do much spraying because people we spray too
much. The
ticks have been bad the past two years. I really considered some
chickens
myself, but I worry about predators killing them. As for Pet Armor
Plus, it
sounds like the patent on Frontline has run out and that means we
can get
generics. I plan to buy it next time I need it but I do have
Frontline I
bought last year for the cats. I split it up with a syringe. I have
10 cats
and get the big dog size, I have also have done that with Advantage
and
Revolution.
My Two cents.
Sally and her 10 kitties
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