Flea Preventatives - what do you use?
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Scrapper's Mom
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I buy Advantage retail at Pet Food Express without a prescription. I know it is available at other retailers in our area because they advertise it.
you don't have to get frontline or any flea control at the vet we sell it at our store and i've seen other retail stores that carry it i've used frontline on my dog and have never had any problems with it but i have decided to try the garlic route and see if that will work for us i would rather not use chemicals if i don't have to
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SammynDqtz
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It use to be something you could only get from a vet but now lots of the local pet stores are selling Frontline and Advantage.
tingoddess
Super Boxer
Fleas....
Unless my dogs kill a rabbit in the yard and eat it, I've never had a flea problem on any of my pets. Part of flea control comes from the environment the dog is in. Manicured lawns and flower beds don't tend to harbor squirrels and rabbits, major carriers of fleas. Dogs who go out in the tall grass, fields or woods are always more at risk for parasites. Perhaps this is why I've never had an issue. I've had dogs for twenty one years now and I'm a professional groomer and I've seen a lot of fleas on dogs in my home shop and my dogs still haven't been bothered.
I would stay away from any Hartz product. Cheap, cheap, cheap and I've heard horror stories about pets dying in the past when certian products were used to control fleas/ticks. Since every dog is an individual garlic may or may not work for every dog. It depends on how they metabolis it in their systems. Good luck.
Unless my dogs kill a rabbit in the yard and eat it, I've never had a flea problem on any of my pets. Part of flea control comes from the environment the dog is in. Manicured lawns and flower beds don't tend to harbor squirrels and rabbits, major carriers of fleas. Dogs who go out in the tall grass, fields or woods are always more at risk for parasites. Perhaps this is why I've never had an issue. I've had dogs for twenty one years now and I'm a professional groomer and I've seen a lot of fleas on dogs in my home shop and my dogs still haven't been bothered.
I would stay away from any Hartz product. Cheap, cheap, cheap and I've heard horror stories about pets dying in the past when certian products were used to control fleas/ticks. Since every dog is an individual garlic may or may not work for every dog. It depends on how they metabolis it in their systems. Good luck.
tingoddess
Super Boxer
Fleas....
Unless my dogs kill a rabbit in the yard and eat it, I've never had a flea problem on any of my pets. Part of flea control comes from the environment the dog is in. Manicured lawns and flower beds don't tend to harbor squirrels and rabbits, major carriers of fleas. Dogs who go out in the tall grass, fields or woods are always more at risk for parasites. Perhaps this is why I've never had an issue. I've had dogs for twenty one years now and I'm a professional groomer and I've seen a lot of fleas on dogs in my home shop and my dogs still haven't been bothered.
I would stay away from any Hartz product. Cheap, cheap, cheap and I've heard horror stories about pets dying in the past when certian products were used to control fleas/ticks. Since every dog is an individual garlic may or may not work for every dog. It depends on how they metabolis it in their systems, fleas are attracted to carbon dioxide when your pet exhales and the heat of the body. I know this from first hand experience. Watching my dog kill a rabbit and the minute the rabbit ceased breathing those little buggers marched or jump straight up my dogs muzzle.
Good luck.
Unless my dogs kill a rabbit in the yard and eat it, I've never had a flea problem on any of my pets. Part of flea control comes from the environment the dog is in. Manicured lawns and flower beds don't tend to harbor squirrels and rabbits, major carriers of fleas. Dogs who go out in the tall grass, fields or woods are always more at risk for parasites. Perhaps this is why I've never had an issue. I've had dogs for twenty one years now and I'm a professional groomer and I've seen a lot of fleas on dogs in my home shop and my dogs still haven't been bothered.
I would stay away from any Hartz product. Cheap, cheap, cheap and I've heard horror stories about pets dying in the past when certian products were used to control fleas/ticks. Since every dog is an individual garlic may or may not work for every dog. It depends on how they metabolis it in their systems, fleas are attracted to carbon dioxide when your pet exhales and the heat of the body. I know this from first hand experience. Watching my dog kill a rabbit and the minute the rabbit ceased breathing those little buggers marched or jump straight up my dogs muzzle.
Good luck.
readmeli
Boxer Pal
not rx products, etc.
Heartworm medication like Heartgard(or the generic form Iverhart) is an RX product that you must have a prescription for. Frontline, etc., are not, although I would definately do research on any product like that before applying it to your dog.
Personally I use BioSpot & it's been 100% effective. I wonder why stores such as Kmart or whatever dont sell Frontline, etc.? maybe they just wouldnt sell as people think they MUST buy that from their vet.
Heartworm medication like Heartgard(or the generic form Iverhart) is an RX product that you must have a prescription for. Frontline, etc., are not, although I would definately do research on any product like that before applying it to your dog.
Personally I use BioSpot & it's been 100% effective. I wonder why stores such as Kmart or whatever dont sell Frontline, etc.? maybe they just wouldnt sell as people think they MUST buy that from their vet.There is a product out called reveloution it is heartworm prevention flea and tick all in one. You put it on the back of the neck once a month like frontline but it is achol based. So you don't get that greasy spot like with frontline. But I'm still using frontline because I use the pro-heart injection for heartworm prevention.
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