luvdavy's Full Review: Frontline Top Spot for Dogs
I have had quite a few cats in my 44 years...I don't think I've ever NOT had one. Growing up, our cats were mostly outdoor-indoor cats, with an occasional siamese that got special handling.
When I became old enough to "make demands" and had my own personal treasured feline, I laid down the law that she was not going outside unless on a leash. My mother is not longer around to make demands of, and I live on my own, still with that same cat, who is now 13 years old and weighs 30 lbs. Yes, that's probably because she doesn't go outside, and never gets exercise. But she's alive, and I don't have the problems owners of outdoor cats have! Boy, did I tell a whopper with that one....
I swear, I think fleas will appear by osmosis ANYWHERE a cat or dog exists. When I was young, it was just an accepted thing...pets had fleas. In the summer, you put a flea collar on them, bathed the dogs occasionally with flea soap, and you had done your duty.
In the 70's and 80's, DIPPING an animal was the big thing. Mostly the dog owners, but some cat owners would make a weekly, or monthly trip to the vet, sit their poor pet in a vat of vile smelling "kerosene", and get rid of the fleas for about 24 hours...till the dog went back outside to poop,
or the cat got near enough to a crack in the door for the fleas to find it. Our cats continued with the flea collars, occasional dusting with powder, and having some fleas.
My special cat came along in the late 80's. I decided she would learn to take a bath when the fleas got bad. I don't know how many are aware of it, but if a cat has fleas, within weeks it will have tape worms. These worms have got to be the most disgusting of all God's creatures...they mature into large worms in the intestines and breed by breaking off into segments...each segment being alive and coming out of the animal with a bowel movement or sometimes just on it's own. I forget the entire process, but somehow fleas ingest the eggs. When a cat or dog bites a flea, and swallows it, the eggs hatch in the intestines, and the cycle begins again. Do you need any more of a reason to get rid of fleas????
Anyway, one day a new product was born called Frontline Top Spot. The powers-that-be decided for some reason to limit it to a vet's prescription, which is pretty stupid. But the product itself is truly miraculous, and will keep your pet flea-free for 30 days at a time, whenever you use it. It is a tiny little container of an oily chemical that you apply to the back of the neck, between the shoulder blades. Catch your cat during a nap, pet him a bit, and put it on, and he'll never know! That is probably the best part. It is practically odorless, and being less than a teaspoon full, it doesn't feel wet or cold. They go back to their nap, and within about 48 hours, every flea that bites the pet dies. With an indoor pet, this just about takes care of the problem.
I'm not too sure how good it would work on an outdoor dog or cat, but at
least it would be one bite per flea and not many!
You have to purchase it through your vet, and it comes packaged in three 30 day applications. Yes, at $26 for cats, and about $31 for dogs, it's a bit expensive....$10 per month to be exact. But it really does work, and your pet is not put through any torture. You don't have to keep him away from you for a week because he smells like insecticide, either.
It's a great product, and I highly recommend it to everyone!
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