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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
On Jun 9, 12:44 pm, Ted Davis wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:47:18 GMT, "Garret Swayne" wrote: Here's another question...Can you do this with Frontline Plus as well? I've heard it's actually a better product than Advantage, in that it works against ticks too. Can I buy the "large-dog" product and dole out smaller "cat-sized" doses to my feline? Would anyone know the dosage size? I use Frontline Plus on my fifteen indoor/outdoor rural cats. I have a severe tick issue due to all the wildlife and cattle in the area. About twice a year I buy two or three six-packs of the largest dog size from an Australian vendor (deadfleaz.com). Then I empty a tube into a small glass bottle with a wide mouth and a tightly sealing lid. I use 2 cc syringes to meter the doses: 0.5 cc for an average cat and a bit more (about 0.7) for my two largest (and a bit less - maybe 0.35 or 0.4 cc for my two smallest). The biggest drawback is that the numbers come off the syringes - I scratch the barrels at the two dosage points and keep them visible by filling them with permanent markers. Even counting shipping, this keeps the cost per cat per month to around a US dollar, and keeps the fleas under almost complete control, and the ticks to the point where for the first three weeks I remove almost entirely dead ticks from the cats - they do bring in a few live ones on the outside of their fur and these sometimes find me, but I almost always feel them before they attach. Anyway, it's a good thing that these are almost all cattle ticks, not deer ticks, even though there is a large local deer population (even the deer have almost exclusively cattle ticks). I buy the bottles and syringes from http://www.sciplus.com/ (American Science and Surplus, and yes, there is a connection with Ken's use of the same vendor). -- T.E.D. ) Remove "gearbox.maem" to get real address - that one is dead Does pulling of dead ticks usually leave a scar or scab? |
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