Is Advantage safe?

My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid of
fleas?

From: "Emily"

My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid of
fleas?


Hi Emily,
Here are a couple of sites for natural flea control:
http://www.4fleas.com/fleacontroldonot.htm

http://www.morrills.com/pest_control.htm

Lauren
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From: "Emily"

My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid of
fleas?


Hi Emily,
Here are a couple of sites for natural flea control:
http://www.4fleas.com/fleacontroldonot.htm

http://www.morrills.com/pest_control.htm

Lauren
________
See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe
Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html
http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html
Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:45:25 -0700, "Emily"
wrote:

My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid of
fleas?

Advantage works pretty well. Before it became available I used to
bathe the cat about once a month, which only temporarily reduced the
flea population.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:45:25 -0700, "Emily"
wrote:

My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid of
fleas?

Advantage works pretty well. Before it became available I used to
bathe the cat about once a month, which only temporarily reduced the
flea population.

"Emily" wrote in message
...
My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid
of
fleas?


My cats have used advantage for years without problems. Now there's another
topical product called Evolution that guards against fleas and ticks and
worms. My cats are on that now.

"Emily" wrote in message
...
My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid
of
fleas?


My cats have used advantage for years without problems. Now there's another
topical product called Evolution that guards against fleas and ticks and
worms. My cats are on that now.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:45:25 -0700, Emily wrote:

My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid of
fleas?

We use advantage exclusively on our bengals. 'Nuff said, hopefully.

--
Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind,
http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way.
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:45:25 -0700, Emily wrote:

My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid of
fleas?

We use advantage exclusively on our bengals. 'Nuff said, hopefully.

--
Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind,
http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way.
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In article , "Emily"
wrote:

My vet really pushes Advantage as the best flea remedy for my cat, but I
worry about all of those chemicals - both for her health and my own. Is
Advantage really ok to use? Are there other alternatives for getting rid of
fleas?

My cats are indoor cats and don't normally get fleas, but once, at a time
when I was living in an apartment in which I shared a hallway with a
downstairs neighbor who had dogs and used to let them in the hallway to
let them out, the dogs got fleas--and I got fleas from passing through the
same hall as the dogs. As a result, I unwittingly brought them upstairs to
my cats and infested them, too. Argh! Never underestimate the power of
humans to help transmit fleas!

My downstairs neighbor took her dogs to the vet and got them put on
Advantage. I took my cats to the vet (only one of them, actually) and we
got Frontline. My neighbor never had flea problems with the dogs again,
and after the one course of treatment, I never had to treat my cats again
at all.

The good thing about it was that I was able to "flea-bomb" my bedroom, as
it were, without all the hassle of a real flea bomb, by simply allowing my
cats into it for a few days after I'd treated them. At the time, I hadn't
been letting them in there, and you know how cats are just dying to spend
time in a formerly forbidden place in the home, so when I changed the
rules and let them in, they spent tons of hours in there just lying around
during the day while I stayed outside. The end result was that the fleas
in my bedroom, seeing a fresh source of blood other than me, jumped onto
the cats immediately and died--not to mention that it broke the cycle of
the eggs, etc. I needed this to happen badly, as I was getting eaten alive
myself at night by fleas! I needed to get the fleas transferred to a
creature whose skin would kill them, not allow them to feast at will--and
allowing the cats in the bedroom worked like a charm. (I sometimes joke
that I was tempted to put the Frontline on myself, too!)

Other methods may be even less intrusive if you have concerns about the
chemicals--but I had no problem with using Frontline on my cats, and my
neighbor had no problem with Advantage on her dogs.
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