Flea/tick season is around the corner

[walkinthewalk]

@Simkie

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.

This is a big help, thank you!

[Draftmare]

We got our collar today, yay! Question for other users, does the plastic eventually relax/mold to their necks? Right now it’s super loose on the sides but kinda snug on the top and bottom. I don’t want to make it any looser because then I would be afraid that he might get a paw stuck if he itches his neck.

Also, to answer the swimming question: it says if your dog swims or gets a bath more than once a month then it reduces the effectiveness to 5 months. For once a month bathing and swimming it says to not remove the collar and that it won’t reduce the effectiveness.

[StGermain]

Why can’t I do a regular imbedded link? Pets Megastore

[Magicboy]

After a lot of research and soul searching, I went to Trifecttis pills. Never had a problem with six Corgis treated monthly.

[ddb]

@Draftmare

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.

Dr Fosters had them on sale recently.

[Canaqua]

Frontline stopped working here in Deer Tick Central some years ago :(. Ticks don’t care one bit about it. Used Avantix II for a while, then that stopped working. I’ve been using Nexguard for the last couple of years. It seems to be working, as, while I do find ticks on the dog, they are always dead and pull right off, if they are still even attached at all. I keep her on it year round, as winter has been a total crap shoot lately. A 70 degree day in January!

I wish they had something approved for humans, as we pull a handful of ticks off of everyone every year, usually late fall. It gets annoying, inspecting everyone before we go to bed at night, but we live on a property with enough woods/brush, and enough deer, that just going out in the yard, we can pick up a tick.

Bravecta is next on my list, but my vet doesn’t carry it yet, so I haven’t tried it.

[Cat_Tap]

I used Bravecto on my Bouv puppy last year and had good results. I am going to use it again this year.

[vxf111]

I have been beyond happy with Parastar Plus for the past 2 years. The few ticks I found that actually bit the dog are almost immediately killed. It seems to do a good job repelling ticks too. I asked my vet about the feed through and he was adamant that in our area Parastar Plus is the way to go. When I am taking the dog to a wooded area I also use a topics fly spray/tick repellent. In the summer we get awful GNATS and nothing but fly spray seems to do a thing for those. They’re gross. But the Parastar is doing an excellent job on the ticks.

[Draftmare]

Well so far so good with the collar. Haven’t really had a chance to test it yet, but it doesn’t seem to be bothering Wynston any.