Dog flea and tick prevention meds/treatments

I like Revolution

Revolution is pretty good. Covers fleas, ticks, ear mites, and worms.

good lort help me with this. my dog and cat have been on some cheaper back-of-the-neck med and now on Frontline. I give them flea baths once a week and had the house treated. None of it works. Guess ill try Capstar or just boiling water next

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What’s the best out there?

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I'm a former Trifexis user. It's an all-in-one, given monthly. However, it can be make your pet ill (vomiting), so it might not be for every dog. I switched to ...

Bravecto. Administer it once every 3 months, although it can probably last a little longer.

Note, you'll have to buy a separate heartworm medicine. I use Heartgard Plus (given monthly).

I buy my pet medicine online through a company out of Australia. It takes about 2.5 weeks to receive once order is placed.

It is about 30 to 40 % less expensive than buying in the states.

Pet-i-Supply

Treat your yard with Talstar and you will not have a flee problem again. Been doing this for over 5 years and neighbors both have dogs. Mine does not. All he gets is heart worm pill once a month.

My dogs take bravecto. It’s a pill that lasts 12 weeks

Bravecto - it's oral and is supposed to last 3 months, but it lasts 6 months. My dogs are all over the place and I haven't seen a tick or flea since I started using a couple of years ago.

I don't like the flea and heart worm combos. I think it's too much on their systems at one time. I get them the heartworm shot about 1/2 way after the bravecto dose.

1) What kind of dog do you have?
2) Have you treated your yard?
3)do you have a lot of trees in your yard
4) How wet does your yard stay
5) What are you feeding your dog

The reason I ask, is because I have fund that dogs that have thick coats ....or double coat like Pugs suffer down here. You can give them Advantix or Revolution and it only helps moderately.

I find that yards with a lot of tree cover that take a long time to drain out create more problems for dogs even with treatment

Also, I use dinovite for my dogs.....it really does help especially with the scratching and the oils on the coat from the result are not as attractive to fleas and ticks