frontline flea treatments -wtf?

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basically, ive always been told that the only effective flea treatment for dogs and small furries is frontline. the same 'pippette on the back of the neck' treatments you can buy a lot cheaper in supermarkets are useless.

ive only been a dog owner 6 months so i dont know about prices before that but in May this year i bought a 3 pipette pck of Frontline for dogs 20-40lb at Pets at Home for approx £17. Ive just rang up my vet to buy some more and they quoted me £34! i said 'that cant be right, that must be for a 6 pck??" she assured me no, it was for 3 pippettes of flea treatment.

Ive just been to look at the Pets at Home website and they are now asking £24..but thats still a rise of £7 in 3 months.


Is it my imagination or have prices risen massively because it summer or just because??...How do people afford this if they have more than one dog..the cost would be crippling!

is Frontline really the ONLy effective flea treatment to use for dogs ..

what do you use>?
 
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Was it all actually FRONTLINE or alternatives?

No its not cheap, I use Advocate as it worms to, and then a tape worm dose every so often.
 
was definitely frontline lex.,.

i think im going to give something else a go i dont like being held to ransom by crippling prices i just dont know what to try

ive used fontline on the furr ball cat for 3 years and its always stayed at £13:mad:
 
I buy our Frontline for cats via Amazon - try googling it and see what comes up. Keep an eye on the prices tho - sometimes it is shown as VAT excl. and of course postage and packaging

Good luck
 
We're going to try Billy No Mates. I've used frontline for years but apparantly something in it has changed and it just doesn't do the job anymore. the vet told us not to bath Sandy at all as it would stop the frontline working totally :eek: when we questioned it thinking she meant a few days afterwards she said not to bath at all!
 
Cop-Pop said:
We're going to try Billy No Mates. I've used frontline for years but apparantly something in it has changed and it just doesn't do the job anymore. the vet told us not to bath Sandy at all as it would stop the frontline working totally :eek: when we questioned it thinking she meant a few days afterwards she said not to bath at all!
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I like the sound of Billy No Mates let us know how affective it is, I hate the thought of putting chemicals into my dogs bodies.

At the moment I am using Prac-tic from my vet, bought enough for 3 months for 2 big dogs and it cost £60 which is a lot of money. It Does work and as we have a lot of deer around here there are a lot of ticks and is infinately better than them getting Lymes disease.
 
I stopped using Frontline coz it was as useless as a nun in a punch-up. Everyone knows how useless it is, and I'm fed up of being told it "will work as long as you go through the whole routine, i.e. frontline animals and then use the spray for inside the house/bedding etc".

Vets etc need to realise that this stuff DOES NOT WORK!!! I for one am sick of being patronised and bullied into using it by vet nurses, vet receptionists, locums etc. The last time I was recommended to use it because it was "the practice here at this vets to use and recommend it" - I asked for something else coz if I didn't get it I would go somewhere else; and I got something else!!! (Advocate - which DID work).

So you have to be very tenacious I think; and ask, and ask, and keep on asking, for something different from Frontline.
 
I use frontline, but I never use spot on's. I use the XL bottle and somemore:D more all mine, inc the cats....I never have flea infestations and I have alot of animals:p
I buy mine at work and there is plenty of choice, I just like frontline spray.
 
It is worth shopping around for frontline online as often some places have offers on.

I use advocate but even that the difference between the online and vets prices was huge!! Although by the time you pay the vets for a prescription the difference isn't that much,they've always got the upper hand in the end it seems.

I actually got it off the vets in the end as my vets do a healthy puppy plan and the advocate is included,and as I prefer that to frontline anyway it suited me.

I get my frontline for the cat online and haven't noticed any huge increases in that but then I bought 6 pippettes few months ago now,so maybe prices are higher now.

There are a couple of alternatives to frontline,but that contain the same main ingredient,not sure of the names now but maybe one of them would be cheaper??
 
You also need to check if the frontline you are buying is the standard frontline - or the frontline combo, which can be bought on prescription only. Not available from pets at home or chemists etc. I think the combo is a much more effective flea treatment and longer lasting than the over the counter frontline
 
Get frontline from medic animal its loads cheaper, if you send me your email via PM i can send you a friends request and i think you get £5 off your first order plus at moment delivery is free £16.66 for yours
 
lula said:
basically, ive always been told that the only effective flea treatment for dogs and small furries is frontline. the same 'pippette on the back of the neck' treatments you can buy a lot cheaper in supermarkets are useless.

ive only been a dog owner 6 months so i dont know about prices before that but in May this year i bought a 3 pipette pck of Frontline for dogs 20-40lb at Pets at Home for approx £17. Ive just rang up my vet to buy some more and they quoted me £34! i said 'that cant be right, that must be for a 6 pck??" she assured me no, it was for 3 pippettes of flea treatment.

Ive just been to look at the Pets at Home website and they are now asking £24..but thats still a rise of £7 in 3 months.


Is it my imagination or have prices risen massively because it summer or just because??...How do people afford this if they have more than one dog..the cost would be crippling!

is Frontline really the ONLy effective flea treatment to use for dogs ..

what do you use>?
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Ive had the same reaction to vets prices only to find out it a combo one they do that treats worms too, the usual non prescription one is cheaper and you have to cover for worms with something like drontal. you have to deflea and worm at the same time, aparently they lick the fur which then reinfects them with fleas hence the need to worm as well. Ive used the frontline/drontal mix for years with every sucess until 3 weeks ago, I purchased a pair of kittens and have had to treat them twice with frontline and wormed with drontal with no effect! they now need an advocate treatment so im told! :o
 
I've just done all mine with frontline - have done for years and it seems to work pretty well, I have 18 cats and 8 dogs - so costs more than doing the horses!!! But I have to agree it is ridiculously expensive now, and as my cats are all ferals who would shred you if you even think of going near them with a wormer or flea stuff, I have to use the spot-on stuff - but there doesn't seem to be one that does everything, most don't do tapeworms so you end up buying a separate stuff for that too, then a round wormer etc, and a flea stuff - ridiculous money making gimics!!!!!!!
 
dingle12 said:
Get frontline from medic animal its loads cheaper, if you send me your email via PM i can send you a friends request and i think you get £5 off your first order plus at moment delivery is free £16.66 for yours
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brilliant dongle thankyou i will PM you!

i have heard of the Frontline flea/wormer combo and to be honest i didnt check as perhaps that made the difference in price but the lady i spoke to at the vets said they cant compete with Pets at Home superstore prices which made me think im going to make sure i buy all my small animal shampoos, wormers, sundries etc there as buying these products at the vets probably carries a huge mark up too.

Vets do annoy me sometimes. Mine (who does my horses too) carries the by- line 'Think of us as your pet's best friend' on its logos and little cards to keep on you in case of emergency.
i always think to myself , yes, as long as the pet is happy to pay top wack!:D
 
Frontline let their patent run out last year or maybe the year before so some of the generic stuff you can get at the petstore is the exact same thing.

We don't use any chemicals here so don't have to worry about cost!
 
The trick is to use Frontline DUO and combine it with sprayin R I P everywhere as well.That absolutely works..promise.The "in-house" stuff from the on line Canine Chemists and the like DO NOT work,so don`t waste money there.
A couple of years ago I had a huge outbreak of fleas amongst the smaller terriers,the kennel block was stripped out,vacuumed and said sprayed everywhere.Every dog in there was spot-oned with Duo. Do you know..not a flea in sight after 48 hours,and none ever returned either.Brilliant stuff. Any rescues with demodex/sarcoptic are dealt with using Promeris,which I rate the top product.
 
smiffyimp said:
try www.petdrugsonline.co.uk brilliant service
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excellent smiffy.
Ive ordered my frontline spot on for large dogs (just the flea not combo) from an online pet supplier someone mentioned on this thread. with p&p of £1.95 its still cost me under £19 which is a saving of a fiver from Pets at Home which is the cheapest shop i could find at £24 and vets wanted £34(!!)

i might also try some of the other products mentioned but frontline has always worked for me for my knee high sized furries and if something works i usually stick with it.
thankgod i only have one dog and cat to do though as people with 2plus large dogs de-fleaing can get seriously expensive.
 
Frontline doesn't work any more - I have spent the last few months battling fleas on my cats, using frontline as directed, spraying the house, flea shampooing cats, flea collars - fleas still rampant.

Finally used Stronghold, 12 hours later, flea free!!!

Do Frontline know that their product no longer works - or are they hoping to flog a load more before the joe bloggs cottons on that it doesn't work!
 
Frontline ..the original does`nt which is why I stress Frontline Duo,which as far as I know NONE of the on line chemists sell.They are two different products.
 
I have not used Frontline for several years, this is because one JR is hyper allergic to it and has Gand Mal fits if he comes into contact with it even if it is on another dog.

What I have found very effective is Neem Oil.

I mix 5 mls of Neem with 3 ml of shampoo and a litre of warm water and wash the dogs all over with it. There have been no fleas and the only ticks they have had have been on their faces where I did not wash them.

It is brilliant stuff and I have bought the largest bottle I could find because I use it for gardening, the same mix keeps slugs and snails away and the Cabbage Whites away from the greens.

I also used it for dunking the hens and spraying the houses after a red mite infestation.

It also alleviated itching and takes the sting out of any insect bite.

It is all natural and has no adverse effete. The only problem is that the pure oil smalls terrible!
 
PiebaldPeril said:
I stopped using Frontline coz it was as useless as a nun in a punch-up. Everyone knows how useless it is, and I'm fed up of being told it "will work as long as you go through the whole routine, i.e. frontline animals and then use the spray for inside the house/bedding etc".

Vets etc need to realise that this stuff DOES NOT WORK!!! I for one am sick of being patronised and bullied into using it by vet nurses, vet receptionists, locums etc. The last time I was recommended to use it because it was "the practice here at this vets to use and recommend it" - I asked for something else coz if I didn't get it I would go somewhere else; and I got something else!!! (Advocate - which DID work).

So you have to be very tenacious I think; and ask, and ask, and keep on asking, for something different from Frontline.
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We use it and have no problem at all....never a flea found.
 
Cop-Pop said:
We're going to try Billy No Mates. I've used frontline for years but apparantly something in it has changed and it just doesn't do the job anymore. the vet told us not to bath Sandy at all as it would stop the frontline working totally :eek: when we questioned it thinking she meant a few days afterwards she said not to bath at all!
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Your definately right on that one!

I've found recently that Frontline isnt as effective as it used to be so I've given up on it.

I've changed to Advocate, it worms as well!
 
I get my flea & wormer from VetUK which tends to be much cheaper than PAH. I did buy the drontal wormer from the vets a while back and kicked myself for not being more assertive as it was nearly double the price from vetuk and it was the XL tabs. I did expect them to be a bit more expensive but at that price it makes no sense to carry on buying from them.

Frontline seemed to work ok when we spotted a few fleas (i'd not treated the dogs for a while), we did also spray the house with RIP fleas at the same time. My dogs don't swim or get bathed very often so perhaps that helped.
 
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