Program Green for Cats 11-20 lbs 6 Month Supply

I can't tell if this has really helped with fleas, we're at the end of the season here and I still see my indoor/outdoor cat scratching sometimes, but not as bad. What I can tell you is if you've had your arm filleted like a fish by a cat who hates top spot treatments, this is WAY easier. My older cat hates top spot treatments. After he gets one, he acts strange, moody, skiddish, and jumpy for days. I stopped using them because I was worried they were harming him, and he would become so violent when you tried to put it on his neck that I avoided doing it. Even great top spot treatment won't do a thing if mama is scared to wrestle the cat into submission to put it in him! He eats this stuff mixed with a wet food treat and he loves it. It's easy. And he hasn't acted any differently, so stumbling around or being "out of it" like I've seen with some topical solutions in the past.It's a little more expensive but our cat is our buddy, and if I can make him scratch less with less trauma, it's worth the money to have him happy. During the really cold winter months, I'm thinking of not dosing him, not until late winter/early spring. It seems like the fleas around here get resistant to flea treatments after a year or so, so to maintain it's effectiveness, I wonder if a break now and then will prolong it's usefulness. Please comment if you've tried this in conjunction with any other oral flea medicine and let me know if alternating helps keep these buggers from becoming treatment resistant.

I hadn’t had to give my several indoor/outdoor cats flea meds for over a dozen years. The year before last, raccoons got into the outside garbage many times and I believe they brought the fleas with them. Fleas love dark moist places, so the over grown shrubbery around the house didn’t help either. I thought the one just had dirt on her, it was flea dirt. By the time I recognized this fact. It was too late to just rely on flea medicine. I put them on flea meds and went crazy vacuuming the entire house everyday at first then every other day because my arm felt like it was going to fall off. The $1500 vacuum I got did a great job. I got flea shampoo bathed them every week, combing the fleas out of their fur. I didn’t know about capstar yet, and when I did, wasn’t willing to try it yet. I had gotten front line because that was what I had used before many years ago. It didn’t seem to work as well as I remembered, it seemed to cut out after 2 to 3 weeks. and I definitely wasn’t going to use revolution, hell no. I remember when it came out some of the horrific side effects others had. I also didn’t want anything harsh from Bayer (topical harsh pesticides..and those horrific fleas collars-NO way) I want to kill the fleas not my babies. To make a long story short I researched and landed on program oral, thank God. I don’t think people realize you need to start Early in Feb or March, and they eat it (you do NOT put it on their fur!). I would have used capstar instead of bathing them. Even just bathing them 2 times ruins their skin and fur. I hOpe to never go through that hell again, it lasted two months. Program oral takes a week after you give it to them to build up in their system to start working. I don’t like that they are on it so I try and wait a week or so inbetween doses and I’m going to try going without it over the summer. Flea season is spring and fall. I try to get them off it completely for at least 3 months in the winter, but that means having them on it in through November because I don’t want fleas through winter. A side note, I wish someone had told me about so many thing before getting these guys one thing especially would have been plaque off. anesthesia most likely causes brain damage, and there is a common thing that happens in their throat they don’t tell you about, it leaves them with asthma like problems. Sorry for the long diatribe but if vets Actually cared wouldn’t they find out preventative safe measures to common problemS and tell you. It seems every time I go to them I get burned, they prove to be untrustworthy, EVERY Damn time!

Most of the fleakiller poisons dab on the back of a pet's neck - because the cat can't wash itself there, which lets you know that cats shouldn't eat it. If you have multiple cats they may have seizures from licking that kind of stuff off each other, and of course babies put their mouths on everything, including slow cats.But because you feed Program to the cats, they can't lick it off each other or rub it on your children or furniture. It seems to be tasteless, since even our most finicky cats have never objected to eating it when well mixed with wet food.Note, the way this medicine works is it prevents fleas from having viable offspring. Since fleas cannot reproduce without feeding, this breaks the flea life cycle. It does not kill adult fleas! It can be used at the same time as capstar, though, which will kill adults.My family has used this medicine on all our cats for decades with zero reactions or other problems. If we get a shelter cat that is heavily infested with fleas, we use Capstar to kill the adults, and Program long term thereafter. We're in the US Northeast so we don't bother dosing the cats during snowy weather.PROS: super safe, since it stays in the cats' bloodstream highly effective, even on outdoor cats can be used at the same time as CapstarCONS: not cheap does not kill ticks or adult fleas (but Capstar does) can't fix a really severe infestation all by itself (but no single thing can, really) difficult to find, vets don't usually stock it