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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 199551" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Lisa,</p><p> </p><p>First of all get the vet to give you Capstar tablets for ALL the animals. Capstar will kill the fleas on the animal for 24 hours. When it gets bad here I do it for a WEEK - 1 pill a day. I NEVER EVER EVER did this the same week we gave the heartworm pill, just because they are both bug killing pills and I wanted to be careful. OUR vet thought this overcautious, but we were dealing with my furbabies.</p><p> </p><p>Then get ADVANTAGE. Go on EBAY and order it in the large dog or extra large dog size. The cat and dog formulas are slightly different, the dog kind has less of the ingredients than the cat one, so the dog one IS safe for the cats. I have a bottle I pour the medication into, then I use a tiny, needleless syringe to measure out the right amt for the cat (and for sweetie when we had her). You can look up the various packages for different size dogs and cats to see how many mls are in the pkg for a dog of X lbs. Then put that many ml's on the back of the dog. (Using the xlg dog advantage, we spent less than $30 for an entire YEAR of flea medications for the cats, and we used it 2x a month for quite a while)</p><p> </p><p>VAcuum the house repeatedly, changing the bag each time. Take the bag and get it out of the house right after you vacuum, even if it is not full. Or use a bagless and WASH the filters each time (mine get rinsed with water, but it gets the stuff out - I rinse it with the hose).</p><p> </p><p>You also may need to treat the entire YARD. Go and get Sevin dust and dust the yard. Wear a mask, and long pants and long sleeves. Sevin dust is the same stuff they used to sell in the shakers for flea powder (last time I read the pkgs, they were exactly the same, only the shaker was a TON more expensive).</p><p> </p><p>If you treat the yard, capstar the animals, and get on a schedule of every 2 weeks advantage or frontline, you should be in better straights. Double check that the advantage dog and cat formulas are the same - I am pretty sure that is what we used, but it might have been frontline. Or I may have switched them out.</p><p> </p><p>I jsut know that if you buy it in the size for the biggest dog you can find, and get it on ebay, you can divide it yourself (all that nurses training should come in handy with measuring teh mls) and save a TON.</p><p> </p><p>Good Luck!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 199551, member: 1233"] Lisa, First of all get the vet to give you Capstar tablets for ALL the animals. Capstar will kill the fleas on the animal for 24 hours. When it gets bad here I do it for a WEEK - 1 pill a day. I NEVER EVER EVER did this the same week we gave the heartworm pill, just because they are both bug killing pills and I wanted to be careful. OUR vet thought this overcautious, but we were dealing with my furbabies. Then get ADVANTAGE. Go on EBAY and order it in the large dog or extra large dog size. The cat and dog formulas are slightly different, the dog kind has less of the ingredients than the cat one, so the dog one IS safe for the cats. I have a bottle I pour the medication into, then I use a tiny, needleless syringe to measure out the right amt for the cat (and for sweetie when we had her). You can look up the various packages for different size dogs and cats to see how many mls are in the pkg for a dog of X lbs. Then put that many ml's on the back of the dog. (Using the xlg dog advantage, we spent less than $30 for an entire YEAR of flea medications for the cats, and we used it 2x a month for quite a while) VAcuum the house repeatedly, changing the bag each time. Take the bag and get it out of the house right after you vacuum, even if it is not full. Or use a bagless and WASH the filters each time (mine get rinsed with water, but it gets the stuff out - I rinse it with the hose). You also may need to treat the entire YARD. Go and get Sevin dust and dust the yard. Wear a mask, and long pants and long sleeves. Sevin dust is the same stuff they used to sell in the shakers for flea powder (last time I read the pkgs, they were exactly the same, only the shaker was a TON more expensive). If you treat the yard, capstar the animals, and get on a schedule of every 2 weeks advantage or frontline, you should be in better straights. Double check that the advantage dog and cat formulas are the same - I am pretty sure that is what we used, but it might have been frontline. Or I may have switched them out. I jsut know that if you buy it in the size for the biggest dog you can find, and get it on ebay, you can divide it yourself (all that nurses training should come in handy with measuring teh mls) and save a TON. Good Luck!! [/QUOTE]
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