Good morning,

I was wondering what you guys are using for parasite control on your dogs? We usually use Frontline, but I thought i'd check to see if any of you have found something cheaper/better?

Thanks for your time, and input!

Corey

Seresto collars have worked awesome for our dogs & cats!

Bravecto. the vet has to give a prescription for it and it lasts 3 months. Its $38 for the one tablet that lasts that long. I have two working coyote dogs and they have never had a flea or a tick stay on them. I will continue to buy it and I recommend it to anyone that needs tick/flea control.

Seresto, here, my dog spends a lot of time at my property and with me in the woods.

Nexguard

injectable ivomec given orally - prevents internal parasites including heartworm - livestock pour on or permethrin yard spray for ticks externally

I will never cater to the pet branded markups of active ingredients. Generally, I have no need for a vet.

whats the active ingredient in Frontline - fipronil....? look around, compare active ingredients, ratios, and do some math - if its good for a 20k horse or bull its likely not gonna kill yer pooch

I put on a seresto collar. Oh you mean the Dog? He gets one too!

Morning, anyone that I've ever talked to that has used Bravecto in our parts has recommended it...

200 acres of CRP ground around the house. We tried a bunch. Worst thing was, they’d hitch a ride on the dog, decide they didn’t like the medicine and crawl on us. Ended up just picking the dog nightly. One night that stands out was over 80 ticks. He was a small beagle!!

Did you put it on top of your training collar your wife has you wear? Lol

Just started using seresto and so far so good. Walmart has generic fipronil averaging to $10per month. That's the cheapest I've seen. I don't like it because it stains white dogs fur yellow where applied.

How well do the seresto collars work if your dog goes swimming a lot?

seresto

mine get in the creek some, not a lot, and it still seems to work fine.

Was trapping pocket gophers yesterday. Had 5 wood ticks on me. For a quick fix on my dogs, I like Adams Spray. It repels ticks and fleas and kills them too. Plus, it lasts a long time.

Seresto last for months. They work really good, I just leave them off a few months during the winter.

I had been using Advantix II made by Bayer Corp. with good results up until last summer when a new application failed to do anything to repel or kill fleas on my lab. I had bought a three-month supply and emailed Bayer about the problem. They couldn’t be bothered to reply, never heard back from them.

After inquiring here on Tman and getting many recommendations for the Seresto collar, I bought one, even though I was leery because they are also made by Bayer. My dog swims in a pond on my property almost everyday spring, summer and fall.

Bayer says the collar is good for eight months for dogs that don’t swim or get a bath more than once a month. It’s supposed to be good for five months for fleas, seven months for ticks if your dog swims more than once a month. I got one solid month out of it before the fleas returned.

I bought another collar and began removing it every chance I could before he went swimming. Sometimes when we’re fetching he just runs down and jumps in the pond and I don’t have a chance to. That increased the life of the second collar to about three months.

I also use Frontline Plus in addition to the Adams.

I forgot about the frontline spray. It is really good and very waterproof. 1 to 2 pumps per lb. It can be hard to find though.

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