So this isn't my first rodeo with fleas, this is my third time having them. First time was a piece of cake and I just bought frontline years ago, gone. Second time, however, I went through the topicals frontline, advantage, cheristin, revolution, and comfortis pills. Nothing worked. Finally I came across bravecto which was relatively new at the same, worked like magic.
Now comes the fun part, I got fleas again. The cats don't go outside, got them from someone else who had fleas, must of tracked home a flea on a piece of clothing. About 3 weeks after I came home from this persons place I started nothing the s tell-tale itching and biting.
I went and got bravecto immediately for them, but the itching didn't fully subside. This was several months ago, I reapplied bravecto a few times since then, the vet told me to not wait the full 3 months and redose them after 1.5-2 months, this hasn't worked either. I believe the bravecto kills them but only after some amount of time and they manage to lay a few eggs, not fully killing the cycle. I have also tried seresto collars for over a month, the biting/scratching never stopped. I had the vet put them on, I know they were on correctly. Then one of the cats got a bad reaction from the collars and I had to stop using it on her, but I don't think they worked anyway.
I have started vacuuming every 1-2 days instead of twice a week, moving everything, getting all the cracks and all the couches and beds. I have even started moving a lot of my stuff in my apartment downstairs into storage just to make vacuuming easier without having to move so many things. I have applied IGRs to my carpet, one was RAID flea carpet spray and the other Nylar. I tried capstar again, that itching and biting stopped right away. I thought I would have a handle on this, I was giving them the capstar pills every 48-72 hrs while I kept vacuuming. Hoping I could get all the eggs before they hatched. I must not have because the itching has come back and the capstar doesn't seem effective anymore. This happened last time when I had fleas, the capstar worked like magic and then it didn't. I think the cats can get a tolerance to the capstar and it becomes ineffective?
The bravecto was being effective in keeping the fleas knocked down enough where I was never able to see any fleas, I have tried combing them and never saw them. Some people think I'm crazy, the vet has never saw any either. When the scratching at ears for 30+ seconds straight and the walking and suddenly stopping and biting at their legs/stomach stops right when I give them capstar and comes back a few days later? The vet never saw fleas either last time, but they were there. I only saw a handful over the 4-5 months I struggled to get it under control last time. Once when I tried advantage, I saw one jump off the paw immediately, then they bit me at night for 3 nights and then went back to the cats. It's the same biting/itching as last time, I know I'm not crazy.
With this whole COVID-19 thing happening, I am from New York, and pretty much everything is closed down around here. The vets aren't taking any visits unless emergencies. I may try to call some pest control companies on Monday, hopefully they are open. I am out of ideas and don't know what to do, my anxiety is through the roof. I was hoping there was some new topical that I could give them, but I doubt it. The vet I go to didn't even know about bravecto when I had fleas last time, now its all they sell. I learned about bravecto from the vet that my grandmother goes to, she got fleas from the same person I got them from, we both got cats from the same person at the same time.
Any advice is appreciated, I am hoping someone knows of a new topical or something I haven't tried yet. It's scary to think that every topical/pill for cats is ineffective where I am.
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