FRONTLINE Spot On Flea & Tick Treatment Dogs & Cats

Hello Nicola,

There is only one pipette available for cats as this particular treatment covers cats weighing between 1kg-8kg.

Hope this helps.

Yes, Frontline is safe to use in breeding, pregnant and lactating bitches.

Hi Laura, Frontline can be used on puppies over 8 weeks old and weighing over 2kg. I can see that Milo (4kg) is registered on your account, and if he is the puppy you wish to treat, you just need to wait another week and then he can be treated with a pipette of Frontline 2-10kg.

Yes that is correct, you should use it every 4 weeks to maintain effective flea control.

As long as your kitten is over 8 weeks of age and 1kg in bodyweight, you can use Frontline Spot-on.

For Stronghold (which does worms as well but needs a vet's prescription) there are different sizes available, though your vet might not sell all of them. The kitten size of Stronghold is safe to use once the kitten is over 6 weeks of age, regardless of bodyweight. A normal 6 week kitten is never over 1kg but this is not a problem in fact.

Frontline Spot-on is still a great product to use for routine flea and tick control, but you need to do something else as well for worm control. (Stronghold does not treat ticks, so if these are a concern in your area, you probably need Frontline for them anyway.)

Packaging does often vary depending on the country where it is marketed. As long as it is genuinely Frontline, manufactured by Merial, then it will be exactly the same product wherever you buy it from. The Frontline we sell is all genuine and is produced for sale in the UK. We are able to export it but we do not get hold of any different stock to do so, we simply export the UK product.

Obviously I have no idea if the product you bought locally is genuine, but if it cam from a veterinary premises I do not doubt it will be genuine. It just has local packaging.

Occasionally this product will cause a small sore patch on the skin where it is applied. This is unusual even in Greyhounds but with their thin skin it can certainly occur. Usually they are fine with it and all effective flea product can cause reactions of some sort occasionally. Frontline is extremely safe in other respects and so on balance it is probably a good product for you to use.

You could get a prescription for Advantix and use that for a while. Usually after a period of time, people find that Frontline will seem to start working again if you keep on using it every month. This is because the problem usually has some other cause and is not down to genuine resistance.

A good alternative for flea control would be Advantage, though this does not treat against ticks. Usually you find that Frontline will start working again in time, because this is not usually a genuine resistance problem. Whatever you do, keep treating every month until the problem is gone.

This product is regarded as very safe and should be fine to use on your bitch. It is a general rule to try and avoid any medication during the first 3 weeks of pregnancy in a bitch, but after that Frontline should be perfectly safe.