Tick/Flea treatment
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If you don't mind how much is it I've just been charged £39
Coleman21d
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+2 For Bravecto, we get ours from the Vets. I think it’s around £35
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cookingfat
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yes I use Bravecto to, not cheap but does a good job and the ticks this year seem to be more,
not cheap but I guess you pay for what you get.
not cheap but I guess you pay for what you get.
DK.260
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This is a good debate and one that has been hanging around for quite a while, I will throw this link in to the mix as i think it raises some pertinent points........since switching to Saresto collars for my dogs, I have not had a single one of the little ....ers attach itself.
Peticide - New thinking on treatment decisions for Fleas, Ticks and Worm
Peticide - New thinking on treatment decisions for Fleas, Ticks and Worm
Ozalid
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Hi Guys, this thread is just what I was looking for as I'm taking my Springer bitch on her first trip to Scotland soon and am worried about midges and tics especially. As always, many personal opinions, but at least I got some brand names to compare!
I'm not happy about the dog ingesting insecticide chemicals, it just seems wrong to me, I'm not particularly happy about applying it to her skin either but see little effective alternative apart from collars, but putting a smelly collar around a spaniels neck I feel would be torture for her, so have decided to go with the Bayer K9 Advantix treatment, which appears to cover all the bases, I just hope there are no adverse effects.
Update:
I find you need a prescription for this product, which I have just ordered from my Vet @ £13.00, they kindly offered to supply me with the Advantix at a cost of £39.50! I informed them I could get it for £15.00 online, so thanks but no thanks!
I'm not happy about the dog ingesting insecticide chemicals, it just seems wrong to me, I'm not particularly happy about applying it to her skin either but see little effective alternative apart from collars, but putting a smelly collar around a spaniels neck I feel would be torture for her, so have decided to go with the Bayer K9 Advantix treatment, which appears to cover all the bases, I just hope there are no adverse effects.
Update:
I find you need a prescription for this product, which I have just ordered from my Vet @ £13.00, they kindly offered to supply me with the Advantix at a cost of £39.50! I informed them I could get it for £15.00 online, so thanks but no thanks!
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Wow - that is an excellent read, and makes an awful lot of sense actually. We've certainly stopped our routine worming of dogs and found no ill effects. In the past I used to worm by the calendar. We also don't use Frontline or the likes - I've pulled ticks off the dogs now and then but none of my dogs have ever come to any harm that way - nor has any dog I've ever owned had fleas! If they did I'd treat it. So that would be one treatment as opposed to lifelong exposure to "preventative" chemicals. The chemicals tend to also come with dire warnings not to get them on yourself - now since dogs are mammals too, and are used in testing medicine for humans, that would suggest that if the chemicals are bad for us, they can't be too good for the dog either.
The routine worming of horses for example underwent big changes, with worm egg counts becoming the norm before deciding to worm or not - and a lot of the time the answer is it isn't necessary - yet in the past we would have just wormed them automatically. This has become more normal because worm immunity was becoming a serious problem due to routine worming - which must surely be happening with dog worms too.
I think its all about a proper understanding of risk, and a lot of money can be made from owners by scaring them.
I began to get a little suspicious when the scare posters for lungworm appeared in vets - now there's no denying its a horrible thing, but I realised that for all that, I'd never had a dog treated to prevent it, I'd also never in my entire life had a dog get it.
The routine worming of horses for example underwent big changes, with worm egg counts becoming the norm before deciding to worm or not - and a lot of the time the answer is it isn't necessary - yet in the past we would have just wormed them automatically. This has become more normal because worm immunity was becoming a serious problem due to routine worming - which must surely be happening with dog worms too.
I think its all about a proper understanding of risk, and a lot of money can be made from owners by scaring them.
I began to get a little suspicious when the scare posters for lungworm appeared in vets - now there's no denying its a horrible thing, but I realised that for all that, I'd never had a dog treated to prevent it, I'd also never in my entire life had a dog get it.
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