Top 8 Best Flea Treatments for Cats (We Reviewed Them All)
After studying the flea life cycle, learning about the different types of flea treatments, and identifying which products work best, we’ve chosen these products as the best cat flea treatments you can buy.
We independently purchased and reviewed these products and are not sponsored by any of the brands mentioned in this video.
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0:00 Best Flea Treatments for Cats:
1:16 Safari Flea Comb:
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2:21 Adams Plus Flea & Tick Shampoo with Precor for Dogs and Cats:
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3:26 Sentry Capguard Oral Flea Control Medication:
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3:37 Novartis Capstar Flea Tablets for Dogs and Cats:
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4:45 Frontline Plus for Cats and Kittens:
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6:45 Seresto Flea & Tick Collar for Cats
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8:16 Raid Flea and Tick Spray:
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Virbac Knockout E.S. Area Treatment Spray:
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9:05 Vet’s Best Flea + Tick Home Spray for Cats:
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Hartz and Frontline from big box stores are garbage.
Fleas live under hartz flea collars.
Call your vet and buy the 60$ drops.
Thats 60$ per cat.
So for me 540$ .
Vacuum 2 times a day.
The fleas are gone.
Why doesn’t this recommend vet prescription products? Revolution Plus is essentially the best on the market.
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Seresto has many lawsuits as it kills cats! Do not use
Advantage 2 and catego have been the best ones I’ve gotten
Hey hopefully someone can answer this but my cat is very aggressive when I try to take her a shower and scratches. Is very necessary that I do this step? I really would like to make sure she’d be at her best but it’s too much.
Using capstar daily
Walmart in the pet section they sell a bottle called “Natural care, flea and tick “ home spry and be used on the pets as well besides your. Home. It’s made by the same company that makes “Vets best” the last spay bottle in the video
Different names same product. They work, I end my flea infestation using it. It’s always 100% on them. Just follow the directions
Frontline and Advantage are good from what I heard
Advantage Ii is great for fleas on my indoor/outdoor cats. But in the spring when ticks show up I switch to Frontline Plus til summer is over.
That shampoo is rly bad
Veterinarians get kick backs by companies for selling their products just like medical doctors do. You’re poisoning your precious pet family members with this chemical crap!
Find holistic methods to manage the flea infestation.
yeah what are you supposed to do when you got three goddamn cats and the topical medications are upwards of $30 a pop and the oral medications are higher than that a pill that’s for one cat one time. and then you have the shit that you spray around your house, it’s crazy expensive and it’s dangerous. and you forget you got all these chemicals that you’re spraying around and introducing to your animals and that’s if you can afford them, and that’s a big freaking eff. because I don’t know too many people that after bills have four or five hundred dollars that they can just play around with on flea medications. and I get what you’re saying you know you got to take care of your cats and all. but I didn’t seek to have a cat. actually don’t like animals all that much you know what I’m saying I stick to myself and my husband. but you know these three that they were being abused and just could not have that. so now I turn around and Bam I’ve got three cats. it’s funny that she says seresto is better than any of the other collars on the market when it’s the most expensive, I’ve noticed she’s done that with every single medication she’s got I noticed she’s picked the most expensive one of every type. in the one she’s using in every category with the exception of the seresto is controversial in the sense that people have had Mass complaints in the department of their animal having seizures or their animal almost dying or both. I think it’s something to be said that everything that she suggesting is the more high dollar item. that makes me think of what her true motives are. I wonder if maybe she might have a brand deal with these companies. I think it’s a little strange that you’re sitting on YouTube talking about flea medication, and then to make it even weird or you’re suggesting the most expensive crap 😂😂😂😂😂😂 okay I’m done man I said my piece. I hope you all have a nice day mic drop
Fleas in most urban areas are now immune to Frontline.
Flea and trick green bottle is un safe ? For cat if I spray her on body ? Today, petco to buy this guy said it best one
We use Frontline, we tried Seresto collars, and it almost killed all 3 of our cats.
I’m curious what makes you the expert? Are you a veterinarian??
Have live fleas on them. Used advantage and carpet spray
You should’ve researched Frontline before you suggested them. Reading the package then claiming it works, is disingenuous to your views. Frontline doesn’t work. Period. End of story. Also Capstar is a one a day pill. 1 pill only works for 24hrs.
Veterinarians get kick backs by companies for selling their products just like medical doctors do. You’re poisoning your precious pet family members with this chemical crap!
Find holistic methods to manage the flea infestation.
You’re following someone who doesn’t know what she’s talking about!
57 bucks for a flea collar, are they on crack!
Every last one of those "treatments" on display WILL SLOWLY KILL YOUR ANIMALS. They’re ALL KNOWN TO CAUSE SEIZURES AND RENAL FAILURE. What the hell do you people think is in that crap that kills fleas? PESTICIDE. No! NONE OF THEM are "Safe & Effective" I’ve seen this time & time again, suffering & dying pets. I learned the hard way TWICE. It’s cost me two much loved friends. It’s also exposing YOU and your KIDS to those same toxins. Small pets suffer the worst. Larger animals weather it better but the damage is still being done.
thank you for taking the time to make this video very helpful
Don’t waste your money on “Natural Care” essential oil spray. I first thought, I want something natural, I love my kitties and don’t want to harm them but that spray did nothing and my cats ended up getting tapeworms from fleas. Cats eat fleas and get tapeworms, found a little worm crawling out my cats buttholee and I was horrified! It’s my fault! I declared war!
After that I tried “advantage 2” and that started working fast! But now I needed to treat my environment, I tried “Adams flea tick carpet spray” and that really helped but now I’m going to try Raid, nothing works like actual chemical pesticides, first try spray just a lil bit, wait for it to dry before your cats can come around and see how they react. If you see no side effects then you can spray more. On the outside, be careful with grass since cats love eating grass, I say use diatomaceous earth and spread all over back yard, read instructions and that actually stabss fleas because of the micro crystalline structure of diatomaceous earth. Also spray some pesticides on dirt etc and wait for it to dry before cats can play in the area. Diatomaceous earth can also be used on carpets but also use pesticides, I’ll take pesticide exposure over fleas and tapeworms on my cats!!
Goodluck
Hasn’t the Seresto flea collar been removed from the market?
Salt your carpet. Leave at least 24 hours then vacuum. The salt drys up the fleas and eggs.
Where did you lose your conscience???Calling this stuff “safes”——CRIME !!!😣
We tried seresto and it didn’t work for us and our babies
Dont use flea collars 😢
Okay how do I put the fleas Ina bowl n these mfs be on the move
Frontline and advantage SUCK this lady has no clue what she’s talking about
Years ago I had a nasty flea infestation which almost killed one of my cats. She needed 2 blood transfusions which saved her life. My vet recommended Fleabusters which deprives oxygen and eventually kills the fleas. It was a great product and it was safe for pets and humans.
Frontline plus did not kill a single flea on mine. I got it for my dog too and nothing…i have used vectra in the past with success.
Great video great knowledge.Thank you for sharing.My cat will benefit thanks to you
How can you recommend Serestro? It has damaged and killed thousands of cats and dogs
With decades experience I’ve found the flee combs with handle inline with tines(?), only as wide as the comb part, the best. Handles like the one shown here get in the way when going between front legs in particular and are much more difficult to control when pulling hard thru thick fur, they twist to easily.
Just my two cents but it makes big diff to ME.
What about revolution
I was desperate last summer with my 2 rescue cats. 1 of them was pregnant and for some reason, fleas love her more and had to go to the dollar store and get whatever they had until I could order something better online. I got a cheap one, and my pregnant kitty ended up having a seizure. Thank god I was able to get her to the vet, and she did fine. She gave birth to 4 perfect kittens, but ill never buy cheap stuff again.
If you’re not sure which flea treatment is right for your cat, consult your veterinarian to identify a product that’s both safe and effective. Have you used any of these products before? Did they work and were you happy with the results? Let us know in the comments!
Seresto didn’t work for my cat or dog, and it irritated my dog really bad.
Where is the advantage 2??? Whatever. It’s the only thing that works?? Get off the air. Seriously
Seresto is currently under a huge lawsuit for killing people’s animal friends. Usual response is to pay shut up money and get the plaintiffs to sign a gag order non disclosure agreements thicker than a set of encyclopedias. NONE of those treatments are "safe & effective". Stop killing your friends with these pyrethroid insecticide toxins.
I made a comment about how seresto and capstar almost killed my cat. I made a mistake, seresto yes causes my cat to have violent seizures even if she’s around the dogs with collars on or flea meds on they’re backs. But capstar was a chewable we gave the dogs and worked great for them. Being that its not a topical I don’t believe it contributed to my cats seizures. I only gave them to my dogs. I just remembered those two brands when I typed my first comment
Catnip and thyme in the diet can help too..
I’ve adopted an 8 month old kitten back in September…. He is now an indoor/ outdoor cat. We haven’t seen any fleas. However, it’ll soon get warmer here and GA. I’d like to work on prevention…. What would be recommended for “pre flea” treatment? Thanks
Vets best doesn’t work ! Its all a lie
I have been reading online about flea killers for cats. Several sites state NOT to use anything with Pyrethrins on cats as it is a neurotoxin and can kill cats. Some of these products you show have this chemical.
Which products can and cannot be used together?
I just noticed my 4 INDOOR cats scratching abt a week ago but we also screened in our front porch and left the deck floor as is after repainting it . Ive not been bitten by fleas myself but I saw 1 on 1 of my cats nose last night and it has to be that porch and under that dang floor ! My poor pampered kitties !! So glad this popped up in my feed . –Just curious years ago had a friend who used Diamatrious Earth on her animals with good luck anyone try that on here ????
That frontline plus is a super cheap formula. Don’t buy that, splurge on the expensive one so it actually works!