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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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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:12:13 -0700, James
wrote: 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? Hard to tell through the fur, but I find them mostly by feel, and I don't seem to keep going back to the same places. The cats don't seem to have much of an allergic reaction to ticks, but I definitely do. -- T.E.D. ) Remove "gearbox.maem" to get real address - that one is dead |
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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
"Ted Davis" wrote in message
... On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:12:13 -0700, James wrote: 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? Hard to tell through the fur, but I find them mostly by feel, and I don't seem to keep going back to the same places. The cats don't seem to have much of an allergic reaction to ticks, but I definitely do. Never let your cat outside and you'll never have to pull any more ticks. |
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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
"Professor" wrote in message news:JQ3bi.561$or4.494@trnddc06... Never let your cat outside and you'll never have to pull any more ticks. Pardon me, but pulling a few ticks is a small price to pay for freedom....... You would live a much safer life if you were confined to a padded cell, too......... |
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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:46:37 -0700, William Graham
wrote in : "Professor" wrote in message news:JQ3bi.561$or4.494@trnddc06... Never let your cat outside and you'll never have to pull any more ticks. Pardon me, but pulling a few ticks is a small price to pay for freedom....... You would live a much safer life if you were confined to a padded cell, too......... Sounds like a scheme... -- Nicolaas. 2007 Pricelessware CD now available. 600Mb of the best of the best in Freeware. E-Mail me for details. .... Computers make it easier to do a lot of things - most of which didn't really need to be done. |
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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:03:53 GMT, "Professor"
wrote: Does pulling of dead ticks usually leave a scar or scab? Hard to tell through the fur, but I find them mostly by feel, and I don't seem to keep going back to the same places. The cats don't seem to have much of an allergic reaction to ticks, but I definitely do. Never let your cat outside and you'll never have to pull any more ticks. You try living with fifteen strictly indoor cats in about a thousand square feet of space. Especially when a number of them originated as barn cats. -- T.E.D. ) Remove "gearbox.maem." from address - that one is dead |
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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
"William Graham" wrote in message
. .. "Professor" wrote in message news:JQ3bi.561$or4.494@trnddc06... Never let your cat outside and you'll never have to pull any more ticks. Pardon me, but pulling a few ticks is a small price to pay for freedom....... You would live a much safer life if you were confined to a padded cell, too......... I have never let my retire show cats outside, they have no idea what they're missing, and haver no desire to go out. Ticks can give your cat illnesses that can kill, but obviously you don't care. |
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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
"Professor" wrote in message news:uEhbi.7711 I have never let my retire show cats outside, they have no idea what they're missing, and haver no desire to go out. Ticks can give your cat illnesses that can kill, but obviously you don't care. Well, it all depends on one's philosophy of life (and death) doesn't it? - I have noticed that liberals think life is the most important thing there is, and are willing to give up their, (and MY!) freedom for it any old time. But to me, death is always waiting there in the wings, and it really doesn't matter whether you live five minutes or 500 years....To the infinite period of time that is (apparently) part of this universe, it doesn't matter....What matters to me is the enjoyment one gets while one is here, and not the extent of that brief period of time. Perhaps your cats are happy, and I am quite willing to buy that. But mine wouldn't be, because they were all "outside" cats to begin with. I didn't go out and get any of them. They all just wandered in because they liked the smell of my property, and the cut of my jib. They will stay for a while, and then wander off, never to be seen (by me) again. - I have learned to accept that, even though I will never be really comfortable with it. I didn't design this universe.....I just learned to live in (and with) it. Bill Graham, Salem, Oregon |
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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
Lets not start this debate again. It is getting old and tiresome. Everyone has their opinion about this it has been going on for years. You are not going to change the other person opinion all it is going to do is start a bunch of BS. SO KNOCK IT OFF |
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Can you save by buying Advantage flea control for dogs and using smaller dosage for cats?
"Matthew" wrote in message ... Lets not start this debate again. It is getting old and tiresome. Everyone has their opinion about this it has been going on for years. You are not going to change the other person opinion all it is going to do is start a bunch of BS. SO KNOCK IT OFF So whose trying to "change the other person's opinion?" We each have our own set of circumstances, and we each try (as best we can) to live within our own set. I will discuss exactly what I feel like discussing, and if you don't like it, then do the following: Message menu block sender click on block and remove........ After all, I wouldn't want to be responsible for boring you to death.......... |
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