Thanks so much, MissMyra, for telling me about your mature cat living with her licking away hair habit for so long. I am reassured. Bu has largely stopped licking his belly, at the moment, and hair is growing back there. However, he's keeping patches on the inside of his back legs bare. He doesn't seem to have to groom there a lot to do it -- just grooms aggressively. I wonder why the cats choose these particular spots? All the descriptions I've read are the same, whether they think it's "psychogenic" or endocrine.
And then there are fleas...
I've never put Advantage on a cat more often than every 4 weeks, but the package insert does say,
"If re-treatment becomes necessary earlier than four weeks, do not re-treat more than once weekly." We are having a very bad flea season here in San Francisco. (My downstairs neighbor used a less expensive product, & despite daily combing, her cats are Troubled.) I treated with Advantage on the first of this month, and see a little flea dirt in Bu's bed again already, see him scratching & biting back again already. The package insert also says,
"Reinfesting fleas are killed within 2 hours."
I am having trouble deciding whether I should re-treat now. The flea dirt I'm seeing could be from fleas living that 1-2 hours before being killed? In which case, another treatment now won't make a difference. How would you decide to treat again sooner than 4 weeks out?
Opinions? Experiences?
thanks,
cheddi & Bu
And then there are fleas...
I've never put Advantage on a cat more often than every 4 weeks, but the package insert does say,
"If re-treatment becomes necessary earlier than four weeks, do not re-treat more than once weekly." We are having a very bad flea season here in San Francisco. (My downstairs neighbor used a less expensive product, & despite daily combing, her cats are Troubled.) I treated with Advantage on the first of this month, and see a little flea dirt in Bu's bed again already, see him scratching & biting back again already. The package insert also says,
"Reinfesting fleas are killed within 2 hours."
I am having trouble deciding whether I should re-treat now. The flea dirt I'm seeing could be from fleas living that 1-2 hours before being killed? In which case, another treatment now won't make a difference. How would you decide to treat again sooner than 4 weeks out?
Opinions? Experiences?
thanks,