Pet health plans

mozzyc

HI

I belong to a cat only vet in Richmond, and have joined a similar thing, and pay £9.43 per month for each cat. We have 3.

Your monthly payment includes:

Twice yearly health care review
Annual vaccination for feline enteritis, feline influenza and leukaemia
All year round effective worming programme for roundworm and tapeworm
All year round external parasite prevention
Free nurse consultations any time
Discounts on veterinary procedures and food

For us this is good, as with having 3 cats, it's not always easy to have the money at hand for those treatments. It's paid for, and when we need to go in for any of the treatments above, its already taken care of. May not suit everyone, but it suits us

MrsE_2

realshannon wrote: »

Mrs E - "I don't think regular frontline is any good. I use the vet frontline or Stronghold or Advocat" - as I said above, I dont use the stuff, but I wasnt aware there is a difference - its the same make? I think SooZoo is right also, I am sure I have seen the products at Tesco at the pharmacy. I agree some vets will do schemes but you dont need an appointment to get them. I can only speak as I find, and I get my drontal wormers via Petsupermarket or Petmeds and via topcashback. I then get sent various discounts once in a while which helps, like free p&p

Regular Frontline works there & then. The other three work all month.

MrsE_2

simontheiceman wrote: »

the health plan has stayed the same. Flea/worm and vaccs + other discounts for £9 per month for a cat and £10 for small dog.

mozzyc wrote: »

HI

I belong to a cat only vet in Richmond, and have joined a similar thing, and pay £9.43 per month for each cat. We have 3.

Everywhere else seems to offer better deals:(

Its bad when its cheaper in Richmond:eek:

UKTigerlily

I have Tess & Chaya in one of these schemes & pay £9.99 a month each. The one we are in has:

50% off of Microchipping
10% off of dental surgery
10% off of general anaesthetics
10% off of surgical neutering
One free consultation a year (not including OOH or referrals)
Booster for Flu, Enteritis & Leukaemia or the dogs ones but not KC for the dog
4x boxes of Advocate, so enough to treat them once a month

realshannon

Sorry, I would need to look this up to be correct, but as I am here I will reply! regular frontline works then and there? do you mean it only works for one day? that doesnt sound right and a waste of money. Surely no one would buy it if that were the case? I dont understand. I am have always been suspicious of these products as after all it presume goes into the blood stream via the skin - someone I work with has just lost their cat, sorry to say, in a dreadful way as it had a reaction to one of these products. Extremely rare apparently but it cant be right to plop chemicals on their skin and it repells insects. It must have to be very strong. With horses to help repell flies, you can feed garlic, as a thought, there must be more natural and better way if you have a problem, than to keep using these chemicals on your furry friends. I am lucky, I have never had a problem with fleas, live in a house with very little carpet, just rugs, and flagstone floors - I remove ticks with a tick remover which I got from the vet for about £1.99 which is a set of 2 different sized mini fork type sticks, you put the prong around the tick, twist and it removes it totally. they work a treat and no chemicals. Hope that helps, I will have to look up, just for my own knowledge, re what you have said above. I appreciate if your pet had a real problem for whatever reason, you would need to use something like this to get rid of them but not on a regular basis surely.

albacookie

realshannon wrote: »

I am have always been suspicious of these products as after all it presume goes into the blood stream via the skin -.

Frontline isn't absorbed into the blood at all. It works by being absorbed into the oils in the skin.

MrsE_2

realshannon wrote: »

I appreciate if your pet had a real problem for whatever reason, you would need to use something like this to get rid of them but not on a regular basis surely.

I thought all cat owners flea treated regulary. I don't use them every month of the year, but I do use them monthly in the summer. I wouldn't want to wait until there are fleas.

Do others treat to prevent like me?

morg_monster

I treat every month to prevent, but with the non-prescription frontline. we've only had our cats since may; i'm not sure if I'll continue every month over the winter. I think some owners just leave longer gaps and if they have no outbreaks they continue doing it that way.
Interestingly, here it says that the extra ingredient in frontline combo (the prescription one) stops fleas breeding, so that the effect lasts twice as long. It makes it sound like it is the better one to use if you want to leave a longer gap between treatments? So to me it sounds like frontline spot-on works for 1m and the combi could work for 2m?

anyway this is getting dangerously close to medical advice so I'll leave it there.

UKTigerlily

MrsE wrote: »

I thought all cat owners flea treated regulary. I don't use them every month of the year, but I do use them monthly in the summer. I wouldn't want to wait until there are fleas.

Do others treat to prevent like me?

I treat to prevent, have never seen a flea on Tess in the whole ten years i've had her but apparently they're only on the pets 10% of the time, dunno if that's true tho

realshannon

To clarify, I have always adopted ferrals via Cats Protection and only have one now, but she is tame, and lives out with stacks of outbuildings etc with beds - my dogs live in but I cannot remember the last time I have had to treat any of them for fleas. I am not being cocky but just saying that I personally think sometimes some of these products are brilliantly marketed, they work of course, but are they really needed all the time etc etc as they would like you to believe. I have kept dogs and cats for nearly 30 years and our vets always said to worm the dogs 6 monthly but now it is recommended every 3 months. You have to wonder if this is marketing again or a real need becuase they have found that they really do need worming this often. Of course, if there were additional symptoms you would have to look at it but this is food for thought and probably raises another issue (ie worming). As I said earlier, it really does depend on alot of factors like lifestyle, heat inside the home and carpet, which can be a lovely cosy home to fleas. hope this helps but do have a look at buying them via the websites I mentioned and topcashback and quidco as it all saves money, which is why we are all on here, regardless of what are preferences and thoughts are etc