| Novartis Capstar Flea Treatment Blue Tabs for Dogs and Cats |  | Brand: Novartis
Category: Pet Products
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 207
Ingredients: Nitenpyram. 11.4 mg per tablet.
Color: Blue
Media: Misc.
Size: 2-25 pounds
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 0.8 x 5
MPN: 66657
Model: 004CG-61011
UPC: 696355250124
EAN: 0716688610119
ASIN: B00028ZLU4
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| Features:
| • | Oral tablet for controlling adult fleas in cats and dogs | | • | Active ingredient is Nitenpyram, which interferes with normal nerve transmission and kills fleas | | • | For cats and dogs 2 to 25 pounds | | • | Should be given orally no more often than once per day | | • | Please read all label information on delivery |
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Product Description
Capstar starts working in just 30 minutes. A single dose should kill the adult fleas on your pet. If your pet gets re-infested with fleas, you can safely give another dose as often as once per day. Capstar is safe to use in pregnant or breeding animals. Capstar is fast acting. To administer Capstar tablets, place the pill directly in your pet's mouth, or hide it in food. If you choose to hide the tablet in food, watch closely to make sure your pet swallows the pill. If you are not sure that your pet swallowed the pill, it is safe to administer a second pill.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 38
 Works well for my cat March 20, 2010
L.A. Garrison (Seattle)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Apparently some cats and dogs respond badly to this medication, but it works wonderfully for my cat.
She weighs just 10 pounds, so I give her half a tablet (I cut them apart in a regular pill cutter) and any fleas she's picked up fall off and die. My vet explained to me that the chemical in Capstar isn't recognized by the animal's body - it just passes through without being absorbed and broken down. It comes out as a gas through the pores of the skin, and acts on the fleas like cyanide gas acts on people. It's instantly lethal to the fleas. Unfortunately, when the fleas get the first whiff of gas, they respond by biting REALLY HARD in a reflexive reaction. Some cats and dogs who have several fleas may experience sudden very hard bites in many areas of their bodies, which could account for the jumping around and panting. It doesn't feel very good. Flea bites are terrible under normal circumstances, and their "death bites" are worse.
About twenty minutes after I give her the half-tablet, my cat starts scratching and/or licking hard at any fleas that are biting her. It goes on for about 10-15 minutes. Then they fall off and die. They don't completely die right away, so I stay away from her during this phase, or they'll jump on me and start their dying bites, and it's not pleasant!
Since I only give her half a tablet, a box lasts me twice as long as usual. I give her a tablet every 3 weeks or so, whenever she picks up a flea or two or three. She's an outside cat so we struggle with this off and on all summer. I also take her to the vet to get her Program shot, which works in conjunction with the Capstar tablets. Program keeps the fleas from laying fertile eggs, so the house doesn't get infested.
Best Quickie Med July 15, 2009
Dawn M. Mckinley
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you need a fast acting flea med while you sit around and wait for the monthly medicine to work, give your animal capstar at the sametime. I give a capstart and a Program chew tab eachmonth. Yes we have issues with fleas, so bad my children get bitten up so we have a need for serious flea control.
Really Works March 24, 2010
G. Kistler (Howell, NJ USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Was using Frontline for years until last summer. It just wasn't working any more. I was having a hell of a time trying to rid my three cats and dogs of fleas. This product did the job! I actually saw the dead fleas falling off. I now use Revolution to keep it that way!
Flea stuff that really works March 26, 2010
Greenstar (Fort Washington, MD USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I feed about 20 feral cats. It is impossible to put a spot flea treatment on these sweet little wild creatures.
Therefore, I mix the Capstar flea treatment in their food. I crush the the pill in their separate bowl and they
eat it without a complaint. I use Capstar in conjunction with Program to keep the fleas away.
I bought this product on Amazon, which always has great prices. Thanks Amazon for great service and
great prices.
Capstar July 26, 2007
V. Blackiston (SACRAMENTO, PA United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
We had a flea epidemic and I bought these to give our dogs in combination with Frontline Plus. It works just as it says it does. The fleas were falling off the dogs within a half an hour after giving it to them, and they all liked the taste of the pills so it was easy to get them to take them.
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