Killing Fleas On Cats You Cannot Touch

ONLY USE MEDICINES INTENDED FOR CATS AND FOLLOW WEIGHT AND DOSING GUIDELINES

Treating untouchable cats for fleas can be accomplished with the following medications mixed in wet food served to the cats:

• Capstar 
  • nitenpyram
  • kills adult fleas for 24 hrs
  • over the counter
• Flea Assasin
  • nitenpyram
  • kills adult fleas for 24 hrs
  • over the counter
• Nitenpyram
  • bulk nitenpyram
  • kills adult fleas for 24 hrs
  • over the counter 
• Lufenuron  
  • bulk lufenuron
  • does not kill adult fleas
  • prevents flea egg development
  • once-a-month treatment
  • over the counter
• Guardian One
  • lufenuron + nitenpyram
  • kills adult fleas for 24 hrs
  • prevents flea egg development
  • once-a-month treatment
  • over the counter
• Comfortis
  • spinosad
  • kills adult fleas for 30 days
  • does not prevent flea egg development
  • once-a-month treatment
  • prescription required
• Credelio
  • lotilaner
  • kills adult fleas for 30 days
  • does not prevent flea egg development
  • once-a-month treatment
  • prescription required

Medicating the cat will provide them prompt relief from biting fleas, but will not prevent re-infestation.

If possible, treating the outdoor environment where the cats roam and the areas where fleas are most likely to live will help make the treatment of the cats more effective. 

Outdoors, fleas prefer moist, shady, cool places. They especially like shrubs, leaves, and trees, and tend to avoid sunny areas and open grass.

Environmental treatment to eliminate fleas is a whole other topic because that discussion must address outdoor and indoor environments, natural and chemical methods and more, so we will cover that in another article.

If you would like to recommend another treatment medicine that is not listed, do so in a comment.