Worms be gone (Drontal Cat Tablets)

Member Name: Tracy_1127

Product:	Drontal Cat Tablets
Date:	29/07/08 (322 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Effective and cheap

Disadvantages: Tablets too large

I've recently stopped using using Drontal dual worming tablets for my cats as newer tablets on the market are far superior. However I still use these to worm a stray that wanders in our garden for a regular feed.

These cost about £1.50 a tablet so they are cheaper than others but I can remember not so long ago when you could pop into your vets and buy one of these for 50p! You give half a tablet to a small cat (under 2kg) 1 tablet for a cat weighing 4kg but under 6kg and 1 and a half tablets for over 6kg. The tablets themselves, as far as pet medication goes, are huge!

If you have a cat who won't eat food with crushed tablet in it you may have to break these up into quarters and give a piece at a time. They are getting on for smartie size which is way too big to give directly to a cat!

I always found the worming aspect of these perfectly adequate though, I did my two every 5-6 weeks and they never had worms once we'd got rid of the roundworms they can get from their mothers as kittens. One of mine had a massive roundworm and these tablets forced it out, it was about 12cms long when it appeared! But these tablets are also for tapeworm too which they get from fleas.

The stray I worm with these eats the food with the tablet crushed in it even though there's lots of powder from one of these but my two never did and I had to break the tablets into small pieces and give it that way.

So these are cheap and effective but too big in my opinion.

Summary: They do work and are fine as long as your cat will eat them in food