Flea Collars on Pregnant & Lactating Cats

We are Registered Bengals / Bengaltime Cattery and we spent weeks researching whether or not to put flea collars on our Pregnant Bengal Queens. We are NOT veterinarians and have no specific training in this BUT we do breed Purebred Bengals and have an interest in Healthy Bengal kittens.

Prior to using these collars we tried several natural flea treatments and collars that did almost nothing and in one case actually seemed to attract fleas to our cats.

The dangers of a flea infestation on small kittens are well known so it was with that in mind that we decided not to remove our Seresto 8 month flea collars from our Bengal Queens during their pregnancy.  Just in case we did remove the collars for the first week of the kittens lives but then replaced them.  We DID NOT put new collars on our Girls and the ones they had on were about Three months old.

We had have had no issues and the kittens are all healthy and happy with No fleas.  We can not recommend that anyone else follow our example but share this so that others that are looking for the same information that we were looking for might be able to decide for themselves how to proceed.

Prior to using the Seresto collars we had used the one time per month Bayer Advantage Flea Treatments which work very well but since this puts the active ingredients into the cats systems we were not comfortable with this while our Girls were pregnant and or lactating.

To follow the progress of our Kittens or queens you can visit our youtube channel  or our Web Page.
​Our Two Bengal Queens, Lisa and Julie had 11 Healthy, Happy kittens that are developing nicely.

​It is our plan to keep these collars on all of our adult Bengals and Kittens over 10 Weeks old at all times moving forward.

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