I don’t usually use any chemicals on my dog, but most likely will be using a Saresto collar this year. I’m in NJ–when should I start using it? Just found a tick on my horse this week and we’re having a snowstorm in a few days.
Also, my dog is only 6 lbs. The smaller dog size is for dogs up to 18 lbs. Am I right in thinking that the collar won’t be too overpowering for my tiny dog when I cut off the excess? She’s built like a whippet with hardly any body fat.
Hmm, another question for those of you who use it…do you take it off for baths? Does it loose its effectiveness after a bath? My dog isn’t a big swimmer, but we do have a boat that we take him out on. He has the hair of a Chinese crested, so he gets sunscreened while we are out on the boat, and then gets a bath when we get back home.
I love the Seresto collars. I have a border collie/corgi mix who seems to have on and off epilepsy and I worry about the orals because of the seizures (could be a that collie thing?). Vet also recommended not going with an oral for him, so I switched both of mine to the Seresto. Both dogs are fairly new to farm life and love to go out in the tall grass/dead leaves/roll in everything. Not a flea or tick to be seen thus far.
My girl dog likes to put her shoulder in cow piles and rub, subsequently rubbing dung up under her collars. Her Seresto got SCRUBBED almost everyday for about a week until I found the poop she was rolling in and it’s continued to keep her flea/tick free a couple months later and she is a bug MAGNET. I also don’t hesitate to wash them with the collars on, though I do remove them when I’m feeling particularly thorough.
I’m another one that Vectra did not work for, and it actually seemed like they had MORE fleas after I dosed them. I’m thinking I will do the Seresto collar this year. I like the thought that I don’t have to worry about remembering when it’s time to re-dose a topical, and it seems that they don’t last the full 30 days anymore.
They’re okay to bathe the dog once a month, but any more than that the insert says will reduce the effective span.
Since the chemicals work throughout the skin/coat, I don’t think that removing the collar for baths helps…you’re still washing the meds from the coat.
I gave my adult Rottie Bravecto for the first time last summer. She got two doses within the recommended time frame. She started having seizures within a month of the second dose. Coincidence? I don’t know but I stopped giving Bravecto and returned what I had to the vet. We live on several acres and use the topical without issue.
I live where the fleas and ticks don’t take much of a break. After a fiasco with Frontline not working two years ago, I switched the outside dogs to the Seresto collar with great success.
i used Advantage II on both inside dogs with great success except when the Advantage II starts to wear out, it wears out right now.
I recently had to PTS my elder Weimaraner. Her new Seresto collar was only a month old, so I put it on the inside dog that weighs 90 lbs.
FWIW, I can’t use the collar on 70 lb dog because he is extremely short haired with red skin. I think his red skin makes him sensitive to a lot of things. He would seem to get a fever and become listless every time I tried to put the Seresto collar on him. Advantage II works on him, the other dog is fine with the Seresto collar, and I hand wipe Mycodex flea spray on the cats. So-far-so-good.
Am I crazy, but isn’t there a warning about not using the Seresto collars if you have cats???
To the OP, I live in south west Ohio, and I put flea/tick stuff on in January, because we had several days of 60s. We’ve since had several week-long stretches of 60s and 70s in late Jan and all through Feb, so I’m glad I did it. I’ve been using K9 Advantix II for the past several years with no problems at all. I had a severe breakdown in Frontline effectiveness and my vet recommended the switch to Advantix. But, I would seriously consider the collar if it’s okay with cats!
Nope. They sell Seresto collars FOR cats.
That seems weird to me. They make it for cats… I have a cat, can anybody confirm if this is safe to use around a cat?
Yes, I see that, but I thought I had read here in this forum multiple times about the DOG collars being toxic to cats. Specifically, if you have dogs that wear the collars, and come inside to cats that lay/play/hang with those dogs, that there is inherent danger to the cats due to the dog collars. Hmmm…maybe I’m crazy!
There is nothing in the package insert and I can report that my own dog wore the collar last summer and frequently cuddled with the cats with no problems.
There are certainly flea things that are no beuno for cats, but I don’t think this is one of them.
Seresto. I was skeptical but it really isn’t like the Hartz flea collars of old. After the first week, I forget about it. Bonus for swimmers: you can slip it off for wet fun and put it back on when done.
I hadn’t heard that about cats and the dog Seresto collars. One of my inside dogs wears the Seresto collar. He’s been wearing it for ~month.
The 22 pound cat snugs up to him in front of the fireplace and has t had any issues yet. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll be sure to watch, although I would think after this much time of jockeying for fireplace position, I would have seen something:)
I think I have decided on Seresto, just gotta find a place that sells it around me (My local TSC only carries the knock off). Or, does anybody have any suggestions of an reliable online retailer that doesn’t charge an arm and a leg for shipping? I looked on Amazon, but it was being sold by some kind of sketchy seeming sellers.
The Seresto cat collars are identical to the dog collars as far as the active ingredients go. I checked because the collars are pricey and I am cheap so I was wondering if I could take the portion you trim off the dog collars and use it for the cats.
I don’t know how true this BUT, the vet told me there are knock-off Seresto collars for half the price the vet sells the real ones for. The knock offs are allegedly made in China, whereas the real ones are made in the U.S.
the real ones allegedly also work better. I have seen Seresto collars for $45 but I go ahead and spend the $75 at the vet for what is supposed to be the real thing. I do know it lasts at least the promised 8 months, maybe a little longer and the Weimaraner never had reactions to it, nor did the barn cat that liked the Weimaraner.
<sigh>. I can’t imagine the vet would intentionally tell a non truth about something like that but I’m all ears if anyone has any thoughts.
We have a big tick problem right now, and fleas can rear their little heads at anytime. Vectra didn’t work especially well and doesn’t work on ticks, so that one is out. Frontline quit working several years ago. We switched to Bravecta last year, and I’m very pleased with it. It has kept our dogs flea and tick free.
There are cheap $30 ish dollar ones online. I’d call those the knock offs or grey market. (Like this. Would not trust that!)
But I don’t think you need to be spending $75 bucks, either! Plenty of good companies like Foster Smith or Chewy or Jeffers or whatever have them for $55.
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