I’ve reading on this site all the adverse reactions from flea medication for pets:

http://www.elversonpuzzle.com/biospotlettersv7.html

and ALL flea medicine has adverse reactions even Frontline and Revolution. Other things I’ve noted is that most adverse reactions happen to dogs by 2 or 3 to 1.

Now I’ve just bought my kitten Zodiac Flea and Tick medicine for cats and Kittens but after reading everything, I felt bad for trying to be cheap and my brain was conjuring all these bad images even though the kitten seem ok and washed it off. Now I’m pissed that I let these stories get to me.

So here’s the question, we all know generally that Frontline, Revolution and most meds you get from Vets work fine. I’ve used Frontline myself and aside from it wearing off early, didn’t seem to have much adverse affect on my cat. But these OTC’s can’t ALL be that bad, can they. Otherwise, with the thousands if not millions they sell, they would have an epidemic upon release to the
public. Now I don’t want to risk my kittens lives either but if a OTC does work, I think we should support it and not just ASSUME all OTC’s are fatal for pets. Otherwise Frontline and Revolution will be the only products on the market. It’s the OTC’s that keep the pet medicine market low. Anyways, enough of my rant.

Here’s the Question:
Have you ever used an OTC flea medication before and what happen, good or bad. Let’s see the percentage at least among this group who’ve had good or bad reaction. Please only list your own pet, use and experience and not what you have heard. Thank you.
Important, please list what brand as well. I think we can all agree that Hartz is horrible for pets. That I won’t dispute.
I’ve never used it myself but there are enough reports on Hartz to convince me not to experiment with it.

I found a raised bump behind my dogs ear. It was skin colored and didn’t have any dark things in it. There was no opening. It was a bit smaller than a pea. I found a similar lump on the side of my cat. Could these be ticks?

I just finished properly removing a tick with tweezers. I read that triple antibiotic is good for tick bites, and that it was safe on cats, should I apply some? (I might not have any, but i DO have something like neosporin) Licking off anything I apply shouldn’t be a big problem, as it is on the back/side of his neck and under where his collar usually is. Give me your best answer; I want to know I’m not doing anything dangerous to my cat.
Also, the tick is dead.

I think ticks are hitchhiking into my house on my cat. Would frontline kill them before they could jump off?

Thanks!

what happened to them?