Flea collars for kittens

When a small kitten appears in the house, the owner always thinks about his health and cleanliness, especially in the summer, when a lot of blood-sucking insects appear on the street and on the neighboring animals. Even if the baby does not go out, it’s all the same fleas can get into the apartment through shoes and other ways, so a flea collar for kittens may be needed very soon.

Collars classification

Such anti-flea drugs are most often used to scare insects away from an animal, but some species are also capable of destroying them.

To understand how collars for flea cats work, you need to understand their various types and ways of scaring off insects:

• With smell - A strip of rubber that releases a chemical substance (Permethrin, Diazinon), gradually killing insects. First, fleas run to the cat's tail, become lethargic and die over time. Its action lasts 4-6 weeks, then you need to change;
  
  

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• With radiation - Odorless plastic strips produce radiation that scares off fleas on cat's fur and skin and affects their breeding functions. The term of exposure is up to 2 months;
• Ultrasound (the most expensive, and therefore are almost never used) - they emit ultrasonic signals that are absolutely safe for a cat, but frightening insects at a certain distance from it;
• Vegetable - impregnated with venomous extracts from fleas for plants, insect-repelling insects (wormwood, rosemary, eucalyptus, cedar, etc.). Bio-collars are well suited for a small kitten, ranging from 1.5-3 months. Relatively safe, but very short duration.

Important!

The duration of the anti-flea effect of the collars, depending on its variety, is from 3-4 weeks to 6-7 months, but here is protection from ticks provides only for a month.

Advantages and disadvantages of flea collars

Different types of collars have advantages of use, which are especially necessary for cats that walk along the street and then returning home:

• This anti-flea agent ensures that the cat does not bring insects from the street into the house, which is especially important for residents of the lower floors and country houses. When going for a walk, the cat should always wear collar;
• Scarers reduce the activity of parasites, acting on their nervous system, and the cat simply shakes off a flea or tick until it tries to attach to the skin;
• There are almost safe varieties that can be used for kittens and pregnant cats, but when buying, you need to carefully look at the instructions at what age you can wear it;
• Such collars indicate the presence of the owner of such a walking cat, because outsiders see that the animal is not homeless.

The disadvantages of this remedy:

• Only adult individuals are destroyed or frightened off, and the eggs remain in the wool until the moment of hatching and only then leave;
• To increase the effectiveness of protection before putting on a collar, treatment should be carried out. in drops or flea shampoo;
  
  

  Flea shampoo for kittens
• The effectiveness of the impact can be seen only after a few days, and it is impossible to predict, because it depends on a large number of factors (animal health, the environment, and weather conditions);
• It is likely that a cat that is too active when climbing a tree may catch on with a collar;
• They have a toxic effect and can cause poisoning not only of insects, but also of the animal itself (often this happens when the model is incorrectly matched by age or low quality, fake).

Kitten collars

Fleas and ticks are a very big danger for small kittens: a strongly bitten baby is very weak and can become sick with anemia due to partial blood loss.Because it is important to choose a quality collar for kittens from fleas and ticks.

Protective equipment designed for adult animals, kittens are not suitable because of the contained strong insecticidal drugs, toxic to animals of small age. They can be worn only on an adult cat from the age of 1 year.

Bio Collars

Vegetable flea collars for kittens use a variety of vegetable essential oils that scare fleas with a smell. You can only wear it on a kitten that does not have fleas, otherwise its effectiveness will be reduced. And he scares away not only fleas and ticks, but also mosquitoes, and also has a positive effect on the fur and skin of the young.

Bio-collars for kittens

Often, the owners ask the question, since how many months can you wear a flea collar from a kitten?

A bio-collar can be put on a kitten already from the age of 2 months, and the time of its effective action is 4 months.

Insecticide Collar

Such a collar can be worn on a kitten for only six months, the number of insect repellent in it is less than for an adult animal, but vegetable components have been added.

The manufacturer usually indicates contraindications in the instructions and indicates when to wear a flea collar. For example, it can not be worn on the baby immediately after bathing in special shampoos or treatment with flea drops. A minimum of 10 days should pass after the interaction with the previous protective drug.

How to wear

When putting on a collar, the following rules must be observed:

• He should sit tight on the neck so that you can stick 2 fingers under him;
• The extra part of the length must be cut, leaving 5 cm, because the kitten is growing rapidly, and the size will need to be adjusted;
• Once every 3-4 weeks, check how the collar sits, if it is not crowded;
• If he hangs too loosely on the baby, then troubles can happen: he pushes his paw into him and falls, can lift him over his head and begin to nibble (possibly poisoning) or get stuck in any narrow spot and cannot be unhooked;
• The first days after putting on protective equipment you need to monitor your pet, until he is used to this accessory, and also to check the presence of an allergic reaction.

Flea collars

When removing the collar for an indefinite period of time, it is better to hermetically pack it in order not to lose its protective properties and odor.

Most popular brands

In the pet stores sold many flea collars from various manufacturers. Also on the market appeared specimens of Chinese production, which are much cheaper than the others, but have very little effect on the parasites.

Here are some of the most popular brands of proven protective agents:

1. Hartz is the most effective means for scaring fleas in cats and cats, they have the longest duration (up to 7 months), i.e. one collar is enough for the whole warm season, and they have moisture resistance and do not deteriorate due to rain and other natural influences. The cost of such funds - from 150 rubles. The company provides several types, you can also wear a flea collar from a kitten, starting at 3 months of age. But for pregnant and nursing cats he does not fit.
2. The firm Bolfo produces several models of quite effective anti-flea models with moisture resistance, but the period of action is slightly less - 4 months, but there are special types of it that are suitable for kittens from 2 months of age.The cost of a flea collar for cats is about 200 rubles.
3. Impact collars beaphar based on natural plant insecticide (an extract of neem), and therefore safer for cats and kittens. It can be worn on babies from 1.5 months. The price is the most budget - about 60-70 rubles. That puts it in the first position in terms of availability and efficiency.
   
   

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4. Domestic products that are not inferior in effect to their foreign counterparts are Bars and Dr. Zoo collars (price 45 rubles), which delight owners and good safety. Duration - 2 months.

Interesting!

Some owners have learned how to make such protective agents themselves, using the impregnation of flannel strips. essential oils thyme, eucalyptus and lavender. The fabric, without wringing, is dried in the sun and put on a pet.

Reviews

I bought my beloved kitten a collar when he was only 3 months old. I wore it for 4 months, and all the fleas gradually disappeared. When I took it off, after a couple of weeks the fleas reappeared. I had to buy again, only for older people.

Olga, Moscow

I already have an adult cat, but she often walks on the street, a poet is saved from parasites only by a collar.She doesn't bring insects into the house, which we are very happy about.

Victor, Voronezh