Advocate monthly flea meds are produced by Bayer, who also make Advantage flea drops. In fact, Advocate for dogs and cat is really just Advantage with one more ingredient. Whilst Advantage flea drops uses Imidacloprid to just tackle fleas and flea larvae, Advocate adds Moxidectin to control heartworms and other internal parasites.
To work effectively, Advocate flea control should be used on a monthly basis. There are different sized doses of the product available depending on the type of pet and its size. To ensure your dog or cat is both heartworm immune and free of fleas you must use the dose sold for their weight. It is a good idea to set up some form of reminder system, as Advocate drops must be used every 30 days to keep fleas at bay.
If however, you do forget to use these heartworm and flea drops, just do so immediately. If more than two months have passed you will need to speak to your vet as a new heartworm test may be required. With regards to fleas, as soon as you use it, Advocate gets to work destroying them again.
In addition to flea control and heartworm prevention, Advocate controls hookworms, roundworms and whipworms in dogs. In cats Advocate destroys hookworms, roundworms and ear-mites.
Both ingredients work together to completely overwhelm the pests, but without harming our pets. As flea control is always necessary for our dogs and cats, and now vets tell us to always use heartworm prevention, combining the two seems a sensible way to make the pet-owners life more simple.
Advocate is also known as Advantage Multi, but both products are identical. It seems, the manufacturers of pets medicines like to make life a little more confusing by marketing the same product under different names in different countries.
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