Frontline for Feet - Can I use the Plus version?

Nasicus

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As per title really!
I use Frontline pipettes on the small cobs feet when she starts to get a bit itchy, wondered if I can use the Frontline Plus (fipronil 10% + Methoprene 9%) safely?
Usually use just the regular spot-on, which is just fipronil 10%, but full admission they've got a good deal on 6 pipettes of the plus on amazon, so if it's fine to use then that'll save me a couple pennies over the year.
If not, ah well, regular it is! :)
 

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If you can get hold of some Selsun 2.5% shampoo, give her a good scrub right down to the skin, leave on for ten minutes and rinse off well. Do it again on day five and again on day ten, and you only need to repeat the wash in a couple of months or so if she starts itching again. The ingredient in Selsun kills mites, and the three washes catch any hatchlings and break the life cycle. If you have any more cobs on the yard that share the pasture, they will need doing to. Way cheaper than fipronil, and easily repeated - although it is a bit like scrubbing a carpet on the really heavy feathered! This method has kept my boy mite free for over eight years now, after years of despairingly watching him scrape his legs to ribbons.
 

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If you can get hold of some Selsun 2.5% shampoo, give her a good scrub right down to the skin, leave on for ten minutes and rinse off well. Do it again on day five and again on day ten, and you only need to repeat the wash in a couple of months or so if she starts itching again. The ingredient in Selsun kills mites, and the three washes catch any hatchlings and break the life cycle. If you have any more cobs on the yard that share the pasture, they will need doing to. Way cheaper than fipronil, and easily repeated - although it is a bit like scrubbing a carpet on the really heavy feathered! This method has kept my boy mite free for over eight years now, after years of despairingly watching him scrape his legs to ribbons.
I used the last of the Selsun recently, been unable to get my hands on any for a while now :(
 
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