Our customer asked:
I run a pet sitting company and one of our day creche clients has fleas despite using Frontline regularly. They have a relation who is a vet who suggested a different product that is tablet form. My vet said they only sell frontline. We always buy Frontline from your company. Do you know of any product that is a flea treatment in tablet form that is better than Frontline? I obviously need to protect my two dogs and two cats from fleas so can you tell me what other products can use other than Frontline and are they available without prescription from your site? Incidently we cannot use sprays as we have a child who has severe brittle asthma.
The best non-prescription flea product available which is completely different from Frontline is in my opinion the one called Advantage. It is also a spot-on and can be bought from our website. There are also 2 flea tablets available, one is called Capstar and is non-prescription and seems very safe, but only kills fleas for a few hours after the tablet is given. It is effective in killing all fleas on the pet at the time, but does not kill any which jump on a while later. You can give tablets repeatedly, but that gets expensive. A much better flea tablet is called Comfortis, which kills fleas for a month after the tablet is given, but it is prescription only and is only suitable for dogs.
I would suggest you use Advantage, as an alternative to Frontline, though in fact I would say that Frontline is usually still a very effective product. This year has been particularly bad for fleas, the weather has suited them and they have been breeding very successfully in many areas. We are hearing about lots of people who have had flea outbreaks despite doing what is normally effective. A lot of these people were using Frontline, but I think that is because most people treating fleas have been using Frontline. It is by far the biggest selling product in the UK. I do not think there is an real evidence of resistance developing yet, it has just been a very bad year for fleas. (Unless you think about it from the point of view of a flea - then it has been a very good year!)