Flea Collar Plus Flea Treatment ?

[CW1]

Hi,
After wearing flea collars for the last 6yrs or so, my cat suddenly has an unwanted guest. Not sure it's a flea as it seemed to walk rather than jump, but she wants rid !
Can I use Frontline or similar while she's wearing the collar (it's also fluorescent so she can be seen at night, & has a tag with her name & my home number, so am loathe to remove it), or do flea combs work ? I have combed her with a furminator, that has quite close teeth.
Thanks

[pastafreak]

I'm not so sure flea collars work...in spite of your cat never getting fleas as you say. I'm not a fan of collars as they have the potential to get caught on things.
I'd use either a vet prescribed spot-on(NOT Frontline...it doesn't work), or Advantage...available on Amazon and other online animal meds sites. Maybe use with with an ordinary collar.
I'd also use a long lasting household spray such as Indorex or R.I.P.

[CW1]

Thanks pastafreak. I understand what you say about the collar getting caught but it has an elasticated bit that, so far, has been absolutely fine. Only thing that has happened just 2 or 3 times, she can get a front leg caught in it if it's a little too loose.

My other half uses Frontline on his 7 cats, which seems to work for them, & it's easily available, only reason I mentioned that one in particular.

This has only happened since we moved to a more rural spot, so think she's either picked it up from wildlife (she's become a mouser too :( ) or possibly from the carpet as there were 2 dogs here (& the previous occupiers weren't particularly clean, euch) but then we've been here 5 months & this is something new.

Definitely like the idea of getting a spray so will look into that :)

[woofgang]

definitely DO NOT double up on flea treatments. If you need to use something else then put your cat in a plain collar.

[CW1]

Thanks woofgang, will definitely do that :)

[Tuvok]

I don't have a cat, but I know that our local Lloyds Chemist stocks cat and dog treatments.