Flea & Tick Control, Flea Collars,
Drops, Flea Dips, Flea Spray
Prevent flea infestations on your pet. Early prevention is key to keeping pets from infestation. Starting a regular flea control regimen like before the beginning of flea season allows cats and dogs to be healthy and happy all year. Advantage™ Flea Control alone can kill fleas and keep further populations from developing, because it effectively breaks the flea life cycle, attacking it in multiple stages. Fleas that jump onto an Advantage-treated pet start dying within one hour and all are killed within two hours.
Advantage™ is sold with a prescription from your veterinarian. Bayer® has always had the policy of selling Advantage™ only through licensed, practicing veterinarians with a doctor-client-patient relationship. It's even on our packaging. This is done to ensure you and your pet are getting the best counsel from the person who knows pets and their healthcare best -- your veterinarian.
Once a month, you simply apply a pre-measured dose from an easy-to-use applicator tube (your veterinarian will prescribe the dosage that's right for your pet). Just part the hair between the shoulder blades of your dog or on the back of the neck of your cat. Then apply the solution on your pet’s skin.
One of the most notable benefits of Advantage™ Flea Control is that it is larvicidal. Flea larvae that lurk where your pet plays and sleeps are killed within 20 minutes after coming in contact with Advantage2. This larvicidal effect and the speed of kill of Advantage™ reduces the need for other environmental flea control products or growth inhibitors. It also inhibits larval development in the pet’s surroundings by greater than 99 percent3.
2Mehlhorn, H., Menke, H., Hansen, O., Effect of Imidacloprid on Adult and Larval Stages of the Flea Ctenocephalides felis after In vivo and In vitro Application, a Light- and Electron-microscopy Study, Parasitology Research, 85:625-637, 1999.
3Hopkins, T.J., Woodley, I., and Gyr, P. (1997) Imidacloprid Topical Formulation: Larvicidal Effect against Ctenocephalides felis in the Surroundings of Treated Dogs, Australian Veterinarian Practitioner, 1996, Vol. 26, p. 210.
Suggestions on how to get rid of fleas around the home:
- The safest and cheapest method of getting rid of fleas in the home is to use a mixture of boric acid and salt. The powder should be sprayed on carpets, bedding and areas frequented by pets. Boric acid acts as a desiccant and dries out the exoskeleton of the flea, but does not have any side effect on human beings or animals.
- In areas with a high concentration of fleas, keep a bowl of soapy water below a table lamp. The fleas will leap towards the light at night, jump into the water and drown.
- Vacuum carpets, bedding and other areas where the fleas are most likely to lay their eggs. After cleaning, remove the vacuum bag, or empty out the vacuum reservoir, then seal the residue in a plastic bag and dispose of it away from the house. If the bag is not sealed properly, the fleas will crawl back.
- Citronella oil, eucalyptus oil, balsam, citrus peel extract, lavender oil and tea tree oil are some natural products which are effective insecticides for fleas.
- Wash pet bedding and other furnishings once a week in hot soapy water to kill eggs and larvae. Try to reduce the contact between your pets and wild animals which may carry fleas.
