Flea Control

Heights Veterinary Clinic carries a selection of top-quality prescription flea control products. With the mild winter we had this last year, expect a greater than average flea population this summer.  Using Program® (or Sentinel®) and having a few vials of a good topical flea control product on hand would be a prudent way to avoid what could be an overwhelming problem.

Sentinel® is one of the most comprehensive monthly heartworm preventatives. In one pill, it is a combination of Interceptor®, a monthly heartworm preventative, and Program®, once-a-month for dogs flea preventative that keeps fleas from laying viable eggs after they bite your pet. It is normally used in conjunction with a topical product (such as Advantage®, Frontline, etc) to prevent fleas from building resistance to those products.

Key Benefits

• Prevents Heartworms, Hookworms, Roundworms, Whipworms, and and helps to control Fleas!
• Palatable Flavor-Tab formulation
• Easy Once-a-month dosing

Program®:

Key Benefits

• Easy monthly dosing schedule for dogs. Can be given with monthly heartworm preventative such as Heartguard®
• Injectable form for cats gives six months of protection from one injection.
• Decreases need for other (topical) methods of flea control, but can be used in conjunction with them.
• Helps reduce the development of resistance to other flea control products. (If fleas cannot reproduce, they cannot become resistant to topical flea products!)

Advantage® is a topical flea insecticide that coats your animal's body by itself within 24-48 hours after application.

Key Benefits

• One application kills fleas on your dog or cat for a whole month! 

• Safe topical solution stays on the skin and does not enter the body.
• Easier and more effective than flea shampoos, dips, or sprays.

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Frontline Topspot® is a topical flea and tick insecticide that coats your animal's body by itself within 24-48 hours after application.

Key Benefits

• One application kills fleas and ticks for up to one month!
• Safe topical solution stays on the skin and does not enter the body.
• Easier and more effective than flea shampoos, dips, or sprays.
• Stays on after multiple bathings.

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Revolution is Pfizer's newest heartworm preventative/flea treatment. 

Key Benefits

• It is applied to the skin of the back near the shoulder blades like other flea control products.
• It is labeled, for dogs and cats, to prevent heartworm disease, kill fleas, prevent flea eggs from hatching, and treat and prevent ear mites. 
• In dogs, it is also labeled to treat sarcoptic mange and control tick infestations.  
• In cats, it is also labeled to prevent hookworms and roundworms.

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Capstar™ is the first in a new generation of flea control products from Novartis aimed at those times when a quick, effective flea kill is required, without resorting to baths, dips, sprays, or spot-on products.  The Capstar™ pill is given to the dog, cat, puppy, or kitten weighing at least 2 pounds and at least 4 weeks old, and the fleas start to die and drop off in as little as 30 minutes.  The product is eliminated by the body within 36 hours, so there is no residual effect, but in conjunction with a product like Program™, it provides an efficient way to kill adult fleas without having to deal with the chemical residues of the topical flea adulticides.  For more information, visit Novartis' Capstar™ website by clicking here.