impy
05-10-2006, 10:48 PM
I am really struggling with fleas.
I have a cat (Calamity - 11yrs), kitten (Jennyanydots - 6mnths) and a dog (Huxley - 10). They're all rescued and I've had the dog and cat for 7 years and the ktten from 10 weeks.
Calamity cat has a nasty allergy to fleas and gets sores on her back when she's bitten. The kitten has brought me the first ticks i have ever seen (what nasty things they are). I have been treating everyone with frontline all summer and it's been great (except it didn't seem to stop the ticks even though my vet assured me it should). However, this last two weeks it just seems to have stopped working.
Calamity cat has had to be treated at the vets because the sores on her back were so bad and Huxley Dog and the kitten are riddled with fleas. Three days ago i woke up and poor Hux had pulled out much of the fur on his lower back and around his backend. My vet instisted that fleas couldn't become immune to frontline but couldn't offer me any other answer (gah!).
So i have changed vets and we're trying them all on stronghold. I took all three of them down together (not an easy task!) and made the vet administer the treatment to each of them (because i'm starting to get paranoid). I've also used spray around the house (though to be fair i haven't seen a flea anywhere other than on the creatures and i haven't been bitten).
The thing is it's been three days now since they were all treated and i just ran a comb down Huxley Dog's back and THREE very alive fleas - just from one stroke.
Can anyone tell me when i should expect stronghold to be working (my vet said 24 hours) and when should i start to think i have some kind of mutant fleas that just won't bloody die!
Any advice would be appreciated muchly!
I have a cat (Calamity - 11yrs), kitten (Jennyanydots - 6mnths) and a dog (Huxley - 10). They're all rescued and I've had the dog and cat for 7 years and the ktten from 10 weeks.
Calamity cat has a nasty allergy to fleas and gets sores on her back when she's bitten. The kitten has brought me the first ticks i have ever seen (what nasty things they are). I have been treating everyone with frontline all summer and it's been great (except it didn't seem to stop the ticks even though my vet assured me it should). However, this last two weeks it just seems to have stopped working.
Calamity cat has had to be treated at the vets because the sores on her back were so bad and Huxley Dog and the kitten are riddled with fleas. Three days ago i woke up and poor Hux had pulled out much of the fur on his lower back and around his backend. My vet instisted that fleas couldn't become immune to frontline but couldn't offer me any other answer (gah!).
So i have changed vets and we're trying them all on stronghold. I took all three of them down together (not an easy task!) and made the vet administer the treatment to each of them (because i'm starting to get paranoid). I've also used spray around the house (though to be fair i haven't seen a flea anywhere other than on the creatures and i haven't been bitten).
The thing is it's been three days now since they were all treated and i just ran a comb down Huxley Dog's back and THREE very alive fleas - just from one stroke.
Can anyone tell me when i should expect stronghold to be working (my vet said 24 hours) and when should i start to think i have some kind of mutant fleas that just won't bloody die!
Any advice would be appreciated muchly!