Thread: Front line doesn't always work!

I have used a shampoo called Episoothe on dogs in the past & more recent times cats & found it to be pretty successful.
Interesting to find you have had problem with Frontline,I always used to spray mine & on occasions used the pipettes,last year I went onto the combo when they had an offer on it & ended up with a chronic flea infestation,I was treated as if I was thick & didn't know how to use the product,it took me two months to sort it out,I have since used another product & keeping fingers crossed,no problem as yet & an added bonus is the cats coats have been a lot better as well.
Hope Purrdie soon feels a lot more comfortable x

Oh poor Purrdie! We had a flea 'problem' (euphemistically speaking!) some weeks ago. We bought Frontline Combo which was not very effective. Poor Coonies kept scratching like mad (and so were we).
I particularly felt for them when they jumped up with a little shriek because they got bitten.
So we called the vet and she told us to use Advantage pipettes on them. They worked great, thank heavens.

I have used Frontline for years and have never had a flea problem since.
Hope the fleas round here are not developing an immunity!!!

What's the difference between Frontline, and Frontline Combo?

Originally Posted by Howlinbob

What's the difference between Frontline, and Frontline Combo?

Frontline Combo is supposed to kill fleas and ticks.

All types of Frontline kills fleas & ticks although it is effective against fleas for longer than it is ticks so you have to use it more reguarly if faced with ticks,a problem most of our pampered darlings don't have to worry about,the combo part puts the fleas on the pill as well so the idea being that they can't produce while dying off...thats the theory but didn't work full stop on mine,I had never ever had a flea problem with my dogs,domestic cats that used to roam or these spoilt darlings,I used Frontline every six weeks but because they were going into a cattery I put the combo on them after four weeks & done them as a precaution four weeks again after that,when I first noticed a couple of them having a bit of a scratch I didn't bother about it for a couple of days then I noticed a flea on the face of one,panic,a couple of hours on & over a 100 very live fleas later the fleas were not the only ones jumping,two of my cats had to go & have injs.to settle them down as they had reacted so badly,I changed to Stronghold & everything has been fine since,wouldn't want to go through that again.

I get Advocate from the vets and that seems to work pretty well - it does everything and goes on every four weeks. My breeder originally recommend two separate products that you could get in pet stores but the vet suggested Advocate for convenience. Plus, we're a single cat house and although Freyja goes out in the garden, it's never unsupervised so she's not had any contact with other cats, so I suppose the chance of her getting fleas is small in the first place.

The one thing that I had trouble trying to get the Frontline rep to understand was that my cats don't get challenged either even though they go out into the garden,they can't get out other cats can't get in,because they are round the back even if a cat is in the front unless the flea hops over the bungalow they can't get in,just had an idea,perhaps I can hold a flea high jumping contest & train them up for the olympics ! Seriously though the most likely thing is I brought one home on me from work & things escalated from there,but it shouldn't have done.

A quick Google search tells me that Stronghold and Advocate (Advantage) are spot-on applications that kill fleas, ticks and worms and ear mites! How convenient, I think I'll change over to one or the other of these. Frontline only does fleas and ticks (I think).

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

The one thing that I had trouble trying to get the Frontline rep to understand was that my cats don't get challenged either even though they go out into the garden,they can't get out other cats can't get in,because they are round the back even if a cat is in the front unless the flea hops over the bungalow they can't get in,just had an idea,perhaps I can hold a flea high jumping contest & train them up for the olympics ! Seriously though the most likely thing is I brought one home on me from work & things escalated from there,but it shouldn't have done.

Perhaps a dab of Front-line on the wrists and decolletage might not go amiss...