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Yall seen that new 8 month collar that's out? Seresto collar. I wonder if they work. One collar good for 8 months!

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If you have a bad outbreak I would dip or bathe them first. Then put any of the commonly available drops on their shoulder blades monthly.
If there is no outbreak yet, or it is very minimal, just go with drops or comfortis or one of those collars. I like the drops myself.

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dip them in creo dip.

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Cheap and fast ,go to your garage bring out the WD-40,Spray him from the top of his head to the root of his tail ,safe and easy .

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Spectra shield. Had bad outbreak of fleas on my wife's pet. Put these tags on them and not ont flea or tick. A $16 dollar tag last for months.
Easy, no mess and reasonable.

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Spectra shield. Had bad outbreak of fleas on my wife's pet. Put these tags on them and not ont flea or tick. A $16 dollar tag last for months.
Easy, no mess and reasonable.

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Comfortis.......1 pill a month and No fleas on your dogs.

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An older gentleman told me to sprinkle Sevin dust in the bedding in the dog box.

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An older gentleman told me to sprinkle Sevin dust in the bedding in the dog box.

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Soap the dog up with DAWN dishwashing liquid and leave it on about 5 minutes. The soap bubbles cover the fleas gills and smothers them. An old Cajun man from Picayune, Mississippi taught me that old trick and it works. You will rinse off dead fleas.

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seven dust works to but the comfortis pill works wonders

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Are these pills expensive?

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Soap the dog up with DAWN dishwashing liquid and leave it on about 5 minutes. The soap bubbles cover the fleas gills and smothers them. An old Cajun man from Picayune, Mississippi taught me that old trick and it works. You will rinse off dead fleas.

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cedar is good for fleas, but the oils can cause an allergic reaction on the dog. comfortis can get expensive depending on how many dogs you have to treat. some vets are cheaper than others on it and there are places online that you can order it from UK, Aus, etc. for a lot cheaper.

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Frontline works good.

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I use petcor it works real good. Spray the dogs down once a month. No fleas or ticks.

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Yall seen that new 8 month collar that's out? Seresto collar. I wonder if they work. One collar good for 8 months!

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Seresto collar....put it on and forget about it. Very safe, and for the price, I am not sure you can beat it. I am curious also to see if it lasts the eight months, my dogs are swimming quite a bit so I think five months can be expected.

Melanie....glad it worked well for you.

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i tried the seresto flea collar on my little cur dog and he was sick the whole time i had it on him,i took it off and he was fine the next day.my dog is a wimp i reckon.

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FYI Comfortis has not been tested on breeding animals. I would not give it to a dog or bitch I planned to use for breeding.

I have corgis and 2 spayed pet yorkies. The yorkies - who spend almost all of their time in the house - have gotten fleas something awful this summer. Frontline isn't touching it. I've heard the fleas are becoming resistant. Meanwhile, the corgis haven't has a problem at all.

Hate fleas.

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here are the active ingredients to the common flea meds (all have inactive ones). You can get some of the yard bug, grub worm liquid that has the Imidacloprid as the the ingredient and it will for fleas as well. I have used it by putting it on a rag and rubbing the dog on belly and under legs and also putting it in a spray bottle. never had any adverse effects.

I mainly use the Comfortis pill myself. no issues there and have had a litter w/o any issues with bitch on the pill as well.

there is also the Diatomatious Earth. It is an all natural product that can be put on dog, pen, bedding, etc. It kills the fleas by getting into their exoskeleton and drying them out and they die. It doesnt work as quickly as some other products esp if you have a bad outbreak.

no matter what you use, do the research first. every one one of these has side effects and its up to you to make the choice what is best for your animals.


Advantage:
Imidacloprid
Pyriproxyfen

Advantix:
Imidacloprid
Permethrin
Pyriproxyfen

Frontline has:
fipronil
(S)-methoprene

Capstar (tablet) give daily or as needed for infestations:
Nitenpyram

Sentinel:
milbemycin oxime
lufenuron

Comfortis:
spinosad

reference to safety in breeding bitches. this was done with a much greater dosage than 1 pill a month:

In a reproductive safety study, COMFORTIS chewable tablets were administered orally to female Beagles at 1.3
and 4.4 times the maximum recommended therapeutic dose every 28 days prior to mating, during gestation, and
during a six-week lactation period. No treatment-related adverse effects were noted for conception rates in the
dams, or for mortality, body temperature, necropsy, or histopathology findings for the dams or puppies. One dam
from each treatment group experienced early pregnancy loss and one additional high dose dam aborted late term.
The treated dams experienced more vomiting, especially at one hour post-dose, than the control dams. Puppies
from dams treated at 1.3 times the maximum recommended therapeutic dose had lower body weights thanpuppies from control dams. Although puppy mortality between treated and control dams was not different, the
puppies from the treated dams experienced more lethargy (4.4X group only), dehydration, weakness and felt coldto the touch (4.4X group only) than puppies from control dams.

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