Flea treatment and wormers

Bosworth

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So what is everyone using now. My vets insist on trying to give me a palatable wormer/flea treatment which is hopeless as mine just wont eat them. Frontline combo is useless now. I prefer advocate as it is a spot on, but I wondered what everyone else is using
 
I use milbemax for worms, but i don't treat for fleas. If they don't have them, then you don't need to treat. If they ever do get them i just use the louse powder i use for my horses lol
 
This year we tried bravecto,as the dogs got harvest mites......fantastic and we will use it again in March for the ticks.....in the meantime I'm staying with frontline plus until December .
We are using heartgard combo which covers the heart worm and intestinal worms,until December...then we use drontal .
 
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Advocate spot on monthly, and tapeworm tablets (think they're milbemax, can't remember how often we give them - maybe every 3 months?)
 
This far, I haven't had any need to deworm on a regular basis, but during the years, I've mostly used Axilur, and sometimes Banminth or Drontal.

My bitches have this far not had fleas, but the ticks. *Sigh* Every year it is the same, especially during the winter I resent the thought of using an insect pesticide directly on my bitches, but then the ticks wakes up during spring...
This year I've tried the edible Bravecto thingies, and I have my fingers crossed for that my bitches will continue to tolerate them. One of them no longer tolerates Scalibor collars, the other two no longer tolerates Frontline spot-on.
 
fInnsh lapphund...did you find this last year the absolute worst for ticks? I'm in Italy and from March of onwards its been horrendous...not the big ones,this year was the year for the tiny ticks.I have a standard poodle( from Sweden) and every time he came back in from a walk,I'd run the slicker over him to pull off at least ten tiny ticks....we must have had a hundred through last year...I used Fline combo,but it wasn't enough...so we used bravecto for the first time at the end of August. By then we also had harvest mites to combat....the bravecto was an instant hit...and I'm going back to it in March,hoping this time to be better prepared for the blasted ticks.
 
Advocate and a tablet for tape worm, this has worked for us for the last 3 years, never seen fleas or ticks on her and she is out on the yard most of the day, my friend down the road has 4 dogs and she has had a nightmare with fleas this year so has next doors dog but touch wood mine has been okay.
 
Bellasophia said:
fInnsh lapphund...did you find this last year the absolute worst for ticks? I'm in Italy and from March of onwards its been horrendous...not the big ones,this year was the year for the tiny ticks.I have a standard poodle( from Sweden) and every time he came back in from a walk,I'd run the slicker over him to pull off at least ten tiny ticks....we must have had a hundred through last year...I used Fline combo,but it wasn't enough...so we used bravecto for the first time at the end of August. By then we also had harvest mites to combat....the bravecto was an instant hit...and I'm going back to it in March,hoping this time to be better prepared for the blasted ticks.
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I think that the amount of ticks this year, is the worst I've experienced during my 25 years as a dog owner. Maybe I'm just good at repressing the memory of the number of ticks from earlier years, but I really don't think that is the case. And I'm certain on that the number of tiny/baby ticks that I've found this year, is not something that I've experienced before.

However, at first I didn't try Bravecto, I was worried that my bitches wouldn't tolerate it, but sometime around August, I was almost ready to try anything, and Bravecto sounded like finding an oasis in a desert. From March/April and until I gave them Bravecto, I sprayed them with White wine vinegar before our walks, and combed (a few times also hoovered) them after coming home. The White wine vinegar did seem to make the ticks more reluctant to crawl down to the skin, but most days, if I had found and killed less than 20 ticks when that day ended, that was a good day.

Many days the daily tick hunt ended in numbers over 20 to around 30, but on the handful of days, when I actually didn't find any ticks on either them or me after the walk, that didn't make me happy, I just thought that I had managed to miss finding the little bloodsuckers in my bitches fluffy fur. And I almost forgot to mention that at sometime in July, I shaved my bitches bellies, so that there would at least be one area on their bodies, where it would be easier for me to find the ticks.

Lastly, this spring and summer, I've dreamt several nightmares about ticks. Horrible, as if the daytime tick hunting wasn't enough.
 
Have used both spot on option and chewable tablet option.

1. Advocate monthly with milbemax for tapeworm (every 3 months).

2. Nexgard spectra monthly (also does ticks), and droncit for tapeworm (every 3 months).
 
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