What do you use? I would love to know other options. My vet always recommends Frontline.
Of course they do, they are subsidized by them as an encouragement to use the product.
I remember my vet. that suggested (as pills to chew) MSD Bravecto 1 if I'm not wrong
Tell me more, please? How do you manage fleas and ticks? Do you check her fur a lot in the summer, because I imagine you guys are outside a lot.
She's white with very short hair...ticks stick out like a sore thumb (which is great), and unless they are attached and feeding, they aren't transmitting yet...never had flea issues. I check her after every walk in the spring and summer (by mid summer its past prime time and they get rare) and often once or twice during the walk if I am in a bad area.
Yes, Filaria is a serious issue.
Yeah, my dogs are both black. Ugh.She's white with very short hair...ticks stick out like a sore thumb (which is great), and unless they are attached and feeding, they aren't transmitting yet...never had flea issues. I check her after every walk in the spring and summer (by mid summer its past prime time and they get rare) and often once or twice during the walk if I am in a bad area.
Like 2% of ticks are deer ticks, the ones carrying lyme...80% of dogs that do get lyme, beat it with their own immune system (according to my vet...my last dog had it, but zero symptoms, same for a friends dog). Fact is that less than 5% of ticks carry disease....and treatment is simple...doxycycline.
Mosquitos are far more dangerous, no one worries about mosquitos or pumps insecticides through their dogs for them.
I would worry more if I had a long haired dark colored dog.
There are quite a few different flea treatment for your cats and Frontline is about the most dangerous option for your spiders. (Frontline had some really aggressive marketing and it worked - most vets will give you Frontline and you will have to ask for something else specifically by name)
It also doesn't really work for cats that actually come in contact with fleas... It may repell the occasional flea, but it's hopeless if your cats go outside or if outside animals come close to your front door...We used to feed garlic capsules to our cats which kept the fleas at bay. We never really had fleas (they were typical house cats that did not roam the streets at night), only when they came back from the cat hotel after our holidays. I think you can't get any safer anti-flea medicine than garlic
I love you because you manage always to say, better, what I wanted to say, Cora
This probably because you have a better access to the Library of the Unseen University
Advantage does not work in the area I live. We have a terrible flea problem because of a huge colony (40+) of feral cats at my neighbours. After a long time of trial and error, frontline is the only spot on treatment that will work. I want to do everything I can to keep my Ts safe and my mammals from suffering and bringing an infestation inside, so I'll look into the pills. Do you have to get those from a veterinarian, and do you know around how much they cost?
Well, keep in mind that (as said above) if you have to rely on Frontline only (just for saying, as an example) if you avoid every kind of possible contact and keep your hands properly cleaned etc it's not written in stone at all that your spiders would face consequences etc eh
I don't know about America but around here you need to get those pills from a vet. Comfortis is cheaper but works only for a month. Bravecto is really expensive - but it does work for 3 months and it does work very well, usually better than all spot ons. I'd recommend Bravecto, but Comfortis is ok, too.