Since an endurance rider has a tick born illness, I'm saying this is
relevent. :-)
Well, I've been cleaning house *again* (gotta be a record) so I've been
posting too much (way to take a break). But I just gotta give a
testimonial...just in case I'm not the last person on earth to try FrontLine
Plus. We have pine woods behind our house. When I ride I have to de-tick my
horse. De-ticking horses & dogs is bad, fleas are impossible. I've got
3 dogs (two Australian Shepherds and a Schi Tzu (at least I don't have to worry
about anybody correcting that spelling today. :-) I've tried the Hartz
version that you squirt down the dog's back with absolutely zero results,
expensive flea collars (love it when a healthy tick lives under a new collar
forever) flea baths, sprays, dips, sevin dust, Raid carpet spray (the last two
helped a little) but I still had to sit down at least once a week with a cup of
alcohol to de-tick the dogs and it was gross and you just tried not to think
about the fleas. It's amazing I don't have some disease from handling so many
ticks. Anyway, since the little dog is now a house dog I *had* to get rid
of fleas, I didn't even have any hopes anything would help on ticks. I put the
Front Line on and bam. NOTHING. No ticks, no fleas, nothing. It's been a week. I
can pet the dog and it's not lumpy (woo hoo!) Not a single flea anywhere. I
can't believe it. It's supposed to last a month. If it does, it's worth every
penny. The stuff's expensive but since the 3 month box for a 22 lb. dog was $34
and a 3 mo. supply for an 88 lb. dog was $37 I just looked at the amount of the
dose for 22 lbs. and used a syringe to split it between several dogs. I also did
my cat which is nursing kittens...the syringe jumped and I put enough on her to
do about a 40 lb. dog and the cat and kittens are still alive so I felt a little
better about the safety factor. I checked my dog all over and finally found one
tick (usually there would be a good 50) and it was shriveled up and mummified. I
guess it would be a bit expensive to do a horse though. >g< I figure I got
enough on my hands that I won't have a tick for at least a couple of weeks.
:-P
Angie (who just scrubbed the mud off my bathroom scales that I used to
weigh riders about 10 years ago :-)
