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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

806.0. "flea control pills" by BOOKIE::HALVORSON () Thu Oct 01 1987 12:53

A friend of mine recommended a product called Pet Fort (Forte?)
that she discovered in a health food store, not a pet store.
These are pills you give your cat to repel fleas.  I suspect they
have some B-vitamin (or is it A?) complex that makes perspiration
repellant to fleas but not to humans.  I'd be interested to hear
whether anyone else has tried this form of flea control.  (If
you have a flea problem, you should always treat your home in
addition to the cat, of course.)  The friend who found the pills
lives in Rockville, MD.

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806.1Don't believe it!GRECO::MORGANDoris Morgan DTN 223-9594Thu Oct 01 1987 15:3310
    I have read in numerous publications and have been told my many vets
    over the years that none of these "flea-repellent" pills have been
    scientifically shown to work.  I lived in Southern Florida for years
    with an intense flea problem, and tried them all.  'Twas true -- none
    of them worked.  Only chemicals (on the cat, in the house, in the yard)
    even came close, and I'm not sure the toxicity wasn't worse than the
    fleas! 
    
    My solution was to move to Colorado and then to New England where
    I have not had the problem.
806.2Be Careful!16819::BALLI AM standing up!Fri Oct 02 1987 13:119
    I'd be real leary about giving any kind of pills not vet prescribed.
    Some things, especially things in health food stores sit on shelves
    for long periods of time.  If you want to try something cheap, plain
    brewers yeast in tablets or sprinkled on food sometimes makes cats
    distasteful to the flea, but like everything else, sometimes it
    works, mostly it doesn't.  
    
    Pat
    
806.3Some Success?!LUDWIG::BARRYThu Oct 15 1987 20:0610
    Actually, I have a cousin who got pills like these from a Vet. 
    She has given some to my mother for her cat and she said they worked.
    She then sent some out to me for my Tiggy (Mrs. Tiggy Winkle.  You
    know, from Beatrix Potter).  I have given a couple to her and I
    think they seem to work but haven't decided for sure.  The problem
    with the ones that we got is that they only last for a couple of
    days.  You are supposed to give a cat 1/4 of a tablet twice a week.
    I don't know if you can get them from a Vet out here or not.  My
    cousin lives in Indiana and my mother in Illinois.  My mom can't
    get them in Illinois...