Frontline Top Spot doses for cats and dogs

I got this from my vet. If you want to go the cheapest way on flea control with Frontline TopSpot, buy the largest size, 88-132 lbs for dogs. You'll need syringes and something to store the stuff in after you open the pipette. I use a little bottle that has a rubber stopper that I can stick the needle through. Put the frontline in your bottle, fill the syringe to the right amount and squirt on the back of cat/dog neck.

Cats==.5 cc's monthly

Dogs less than 22 lbs==.7 cc's
Dogs between 23-44 lbs== 1.4 cc's
Dogs between 45-88 lbs==3 cc's

The frontline formula is the same for dogs and cats, only the amounts vary. My vet gave me this little chart for doses. You can't do this with all flea control products, some do use different ingredients for cats and dogs but frontline is perfectly safe to use this way. You do have to be very careful with some sprays, shampoos, powders etc. because some things that are used on dogs are toxic to cats. For those with multiple cats/pets, this is really the cheapest way to go--you can get 3 doses of frontline for cats for 26.95 and 3 of the large size dog ones for 33.99 which will dose about 8 cats per pipette so you get like 3 months for 8 cats for $7 more! It's well worth it if you have multiple pets. These prices are from http://www.jefferspet.com/ssc/product.asp?CID=0&mscssid=CNXHNSS27QCG8PVEB3FED3L884WEBN58&pf_id=0027981. Anyhow, hope this helps out.

Is it the same for frontline plus? Once I adopt my dog, I may switch over to frontline plus for the dogs and cats and just do it that way.
I am also curious if you could store it in a syringe. I wouldn't know where to get a vaccine doseage bottle with a rubber top that came empty.
Thanks for the tip!

You might just ask your vet for a bottle to keep it in. The first bottle I got was from my vet, the second one was from my brother who's a chemist. Maybe you can buy something like that somewhere. I think you could store it in a bottle with a cap, it's just easier to get it out with a syringe. I don't know about frontline plus, I will ask.

We have a vaccination clinic at work on sunday, I will try and remember to ask. I don't have a regular vet. If there are serious problems, I take them to our mobile vet that comes once a week to work. Only charges $30 for a visit plus any meds or anything that the animal might need (really cheap as far as seattle prices go!). I could ask him if he has any dosage bottles that might work. He might be able to give or sell one to me. The ingredients are the same in the cat frontline plus and the dog frontline plus. I'll look at work tomorrow and see if the percentages are the same. If so, I think this'd work really well for me. I have just been paying $13 for a single tube of advantage and splitting it between the two cats. But now that there is a dog in the mix...
However, I have already gotten some k9 advantix and will have that on hand for a few months.
So I guess I have plenty of time to get this figured out.

tigerente- be careful with the k9 advantix- it has permethrins (sp?) in it which cats can't metabolize- even if they rub up against a dog with recently applied Advantix it can be enough to make them sick. So just make sure the cats keep a distance from a dog with recently applied advantix.
I don't see why you can't store Frontline in a syringe- just ask the vet for a cap for the syringe so air or whatever doesn't evaporate the frontline.

Oh, they'll be keeping plenty distance from the dog! They hate dogs! Good to know. I knew about the premerthins thing, but I hadn't checked the ingredients of advantix. I knew it was one that should never go on cats, and I knew that about dog advantage as well.
I looked at the ingredients of the dog and cat frontline plus, they both have the same active ingredients, the fipronil, and another one, I can't remember what. The cat solution was actually a higher percentage rate than the dogs, so I am sure that the dog stuff would be fine for cats in their .5 mL dosage rate.