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We use Frontline here too. Works great. I've used it on all kinds of dogs and cats and never a problem. Used advantage once on one dog and it didn't seem to work at all. ditto for the Sargent's and other knock off stuff.

 

Truman, I wonder if the problem you had with Frontline had something to do with using the advantage first? Makes me wonder. We got a sample of Advantage when we took our puppy to the vet for her first shots. Haven't used anything on her for several months, but it's time to do the Frontline thing here.

 

chris

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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 :-)

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