- Recommended for dogs and puppies 46-90 lbs in weight.
- Program works by sterilizing the female flea
- When Fleas lays eggs they will not hatch breaking the cycle of fleas
- You must treat all of the dogs and cats in the house with Program in order for this treatment to be effective
- Each pack contains 6 doses a six month supply
Product Description
Program is a once-a-month flavor tabs for the prevention and control of flea populations in dogs. Recommended for dogs and puppies up to 10-pound in weight…. More >>
Novartis Program Once-a-Month Flea Prevention Flavor Tabs for Dogs 46-90 Pounds, 6 Tablets
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I’m now a convert to Program and the overall approach of growth-regulation (as opposed to insecticide) meds when it comes to controlling fleas on our dogs and cats over the long haul. No matter how effective an insecticide product may be, unless it can do something to keep those thousands of flea larvae and pupae from growing into nasty egg-producing adult fleas, the flea population is always going to find a way to survive. By the way, of course you’ve got to treat the house with a growth regulator, too, but that’s not hard to do, and it’s a lot safer than bombing with an insecticide. We had a vicious infestation problem this past summer that a combination of Program, Capstar and Martin’s I.G. Regulator solved.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have three cats and two of them hate the drops that prevent fleas, running and hiding when it’s applied or when they smell it. Then they try to lick it off themselves and each other. Program seemed like the solution, but they start scratching fleas again about two weeks after taking the pill. I also have tried the mix-with-food Program liquid, but the two drop-hating cats won’t eat enough food at one time to consume all of it and won’t finish the food later either, so it isn’t effective.
My veterinarian doesn’t carry Program pills and his assistant said it was because they hadn’t been effective. I order flea remedies on line anyway because they cost less than at the vet’s office, but even the drops seem less effective after a time. The vet’s assistant recommended alternating two brands of the drops on a monthly basis.
Rating: 2 / 5
My cat is allergic to Frontline and Advantage, which are topical pesticides that get ingested when the cat grooms itself. He would get a lump on his neck wherever I would apply it, so I stopped using topical insecticide for flea control.
I really like Program. It controls fleas for a month, and I never have a problem with my cat getting sick. I put the medication into a little bowl with tuna juice from a can, mix it up, and he drinks it right away.
Even if your cat has a flea infestation, just give them a flea bath and use Program. You can also use Capstar which works faster than anything else, and kills all the fleas on your cat in 5 minutes, but is not long-lasting. The people that give this product a bad review need to realize that if you cat is infested, you need to do something about the active fleas and the eggs. Program is an ovacide that prevents fleas from reproducing so it won’t stop an infestation, but it’s so much safer for your cat. I’ll never use anything else.
Rating: 5 / 5
The dog we have now is a flea magnet! I had never experienced fleas with our previous pets. It all came to a head when I was sitting at my sewing machine one day and felt little bites on my ankles…I looked down and was horrified to see fleas on me. They had infested our home! I became a woman on a mission, I tried every single topical flea treatment on the market and I began vacuuming everything like a maniac. The vets all swore to me that their topical products worked, and one vet even accused me of being a poor housekeeper since the fleas were now in our carpets and furniture. I was mortified! Somehow during the process I had heard of two oral flea med’s, Program and Capstar. Since I’d tried everything else without success I was determined to get my hands on these two items but it wasn’t easy because most stores and even veterinarians do not carry either one. I finaly found a farm & feed store who carried it (you can order it online but at the time I was desperate and needed them NOW). Program and Capstar work wonderfully by themselves, but for your animal’s sake you really should use them together. Capstar kills ALL the fleas within 24 hours…Program stays in your pet’s blood stream for one month and renders the fleas sterile so that they give birth to dead eggs. So even if your pet gets fleas again within that month they cannot reproduce, and the flea eggs that fall off the animal onto your carpets and furniture will not hatch. They are each expensive, but well worth the price considering how great they work. I highly recommend each product!
Rating: 5 / 5
Three large dogs makes flea control a challenge in our sandy/grassy yard. First you have to eradicate the fleas in the environment using lawn insecticide and get them off the dogs with flea shampoo or Capstar. Then the PROGRAM keeps any larva fleas from developing into adults and pretty soon any remaining fleas on the ground just sort of fade away. And, as long as you do not have other animals/pets bringing fleas into the yard, you have a good control solution. We let the dogs into the house occasionally and NO Fleas after 12 months now of using PROGRAM. Also, an important point to me is that PROGRAM is very benign, in that it contains no insecticides. The literature says that there is no known overdose of PROGRAM that would harm a human or a dog. However, PROGRAM does not protect against ticks, so the dogs also wear a flea collar.
Rating: 5 / 5