My cat still has fleas and flea dirt after treatment. What to do?

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Yesterday, i was petting my cat while he was sleeping and found fleas hiding under his chin. There were a couple of adult ones wandering around. It has been 2 months since he got his last endo-ecto parasite treatment. We immediately applied endo-ecto parasites treatment yesterday. Today we found 2 dead adults and 3 alive ones. There are a lot of black dots too. I think the treatment didn't kill all of them. There might still be a couple of them alive on him. What should i do in this case? Thanks. Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Male | neutered | 9 months and 26 days old | 13.6 lbs

Andrea M. Brodie, DVM · Accepted Answer

Unfortunately fleas only hop on the body of your pet when they want to feed, then they hop off again and stay in your pet's environment. So you need to treat all pets in the household as well as the environment (which contains the fleas, their eggs and larvae). Flea treatment:  1) Get some flea medication such as a Flea spray or a spot on from a pet shop or your veterinarian and apply monthly 2) get flea powder, put some in your vacuum cleaner bag and vacuum your house and furniture and also non-carpeted areas frequently to remove flea larvae and eggs which live off house dust., Dispose of the bag in the trash outside. Hot-wash all the pet's bedding, If you do this diligently for a few months you will get rid of the fleas. Flea products: Spot-ons: Advantage, Advantix Advantage Multi (Advocate in the UK) Frontline (ticks as well) Bravecto spot on (ticks as well) - for cats Revolution (stronghold in the UK) Tablets: comfortis (will only kill fleas once) Collar: Seresto (ticks as well) It is very important that you only use flea prevention licensed for cats as those for dogs can contain permethrin which is toxic to cats.

My cat still has fleas and flea dirt after treatment. What to do?

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