A couple of weeks ago I bought a bottle of Adams Flea and Tick shampoo. I noticed it had a new look with orange on the bottle and it said with D-Limonene, which is an all natural ingredient. It doesn't work. Within a week my dogs were infested with fleas and I was picking ticks off them like crazy. If you buy this product and you need it to work, look for the formula with .15 of pyrethrin. Not only is it effective for fleas and ticks, but it also repels mosquitos.

I've tried everything on my dogs, including the pills, and Adams with pyrethrin is the best product I've come across. The new forumula doesn't work, so if you use it make sure you check the ingredients. They're making the spray with the D-Limonene also so check the ingredients on that if you buy it also.

I don't like the all natural products where I am because we're near the beach we have bad flea, tick and mosquito problems. Those type of repellants don't work that good. As bad as Deet is, which is what I use for mosq. protection, it's worth it. My daughter just had Rocky Mountain Spotted fever <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> (No, she didnt have tick or mosq. protection on when she got the tick)

We have a person they call the bay keeper here. He petitioned the county to stop spraying with chemicals because they were killing the crabs and fish. It's sounds like a reasonable and smart idea, except that now the latter is having serious consequences on the people from the increased numbers of ticks, and mosquitoes. There's been multiple cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted fever here which is not normal. That's usually very rare. As a matter of fact, until my daughter got it I thought it was a legend parents used to keep their kids out of the woods <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> In humans RMSF isn't a big deal if you catch it and treat it, but in dogs it would be harder to catch because they don't get the tell tale rash or at least its not visable.

For people that are landlocked, the natural stuff may work well, but not near the ocean and bays. I would hate to see my kids or I get malaria or my dogs get very sick because of my hesitation to use the effective chemicals <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> It's (Adams) a better alternative to the ingestables, and in my experience works WAY better.

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I don't like the all natural products where I am because we're near the beach we have bad flea, tick and mosquito problems. Those type of repellants don't work that good. As bad as Deet is, which is what I use for mosq. protection, it's worth it. ......

Well, I was talking about mosquitos only.

According to Iowa Stae's Ag College, the ingredient that this company says is 10 times stronger than Deet in repelling mosquitos.... is.

QUOTE: Peterson said it took about a tenth as much nepetalactone to have the same repellency as DEET. "In other words, nepetalactone is about 10 times more effective than DEET," he said. END QUOTE from
http://www.ag.iastate.edu/aginfo/news/2001releases/catnip.html

Of course, I don't know about whether thare are different conditions to consider near bays and oceans. I'm on an ocean bay, too, but we don't have a lot of mosquito activity right where I live.

Do you have mosquito problems at all in California with mosquitoes? You're very lucky! Sounds like shangri-la <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I live on a peninsula on the island, and it's all marshland.

I didn't realize that nepetalactone was catnip. I saw a picture of what looked like parsley and was immediately skeptical and shut the window <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> I've heard catnip WAS effective in warding off mosquitos. As a matter of fact, last year or the year before I tried planting it around the perimeter of my property, but it didn't take. If you try that product, please let everyone know how it works. I'm curious of it's effectiveness in the field rather than the lab. Here they have sprayed some kind of garlic spray in replacement of the chemicals that they temporarily banned based on lab studies. Three years later, a large increase in mosquitoes & ticks, and all kind of tick and mosquito born illnesses later, I wonder who was in charge of that study?

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Do you have mosquito problems at all in California with mosquitoes? You're very lucky! Sounds like shangri-la <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> .....

Oh, HECK yeah! <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

A couple of blocks from me there's a lagoon with tons of mosquito activity. I just happen to live in direct line with the ocean, maybe four blocks with a pretty regular ocean breeze. That's the only reason I said not much activity where I live -- I meant right here in this particular block, not the whole state or the county or Monterey Bay or even this city. <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I grew up near Boston, and I can tell you that parts of this state are every bit as bad as NY/New England.

When I googled the primary ingredient in that Parsley Hollow repellent, I came up with a lot of studies that concluded its effectiveness against mosquitos was greater than DEET by far, and *much* greater than any other non-toxic product. Sounds win-win to me.

I'm not going to trust the claims about fleas and ticks (only because I was unable to find any big studies yet backing them up, like the ones for mosquitos), but still -- a non-toxic *and* more effective mosquito repellent sounds great to me.

Our training club has tons of mosquitos, so I'll definitely report the results.

The mosquitos are even bad here at the ocean at night. <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

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I came up with a lot of studies that concluded its effectiveness against mosquitos was greater than DEET by far, and *much* greater than any other non-toxic product. Sounds win-win to me.

Yes, definitely! It's kind of sad to see hundreds of baby crabs washing up on shore, and dead fish floating from the chemical sprays. I'm sorry I didn't do more to make the catnip grow now. I was skeptical about it... It makes sense that there is a natural repellant or antidote for everything, it's just a matter of finding them. If this really works, I wonder what that could mean for the future? Instead of sprays, planting the shorelines, marshes, bogs, etc. with catnip. I bet it would be cheaper in the long run to.

I have used Adams' flea and tick spray for years. In case folks aren't aware...They offer two types in the blue bottle. The best is the water based spray as opposed to the other which I think is alcohol based. I discovered the water based spray years ago when the alcohol based spray created skin problems for my first working dog. It is just as effective in either form. Haven't tried the new stuff. I dont see a need to.

I couldn't find on the bottle where it said water based or oil based, so I'm not even sure what I have <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />. I did notice that they sell two different strengths in the blue bottle with the red cap. There's the .075 pyrethrin, and the .15 pyrethrin. I would never have tried the new but it was the only thing they had at the small feed store I usually get it from. At Petco I found much more of a variety. I swear by this stuff. It's been more effective and economical than anything else I've ever tried. I panicked when I realized the orange bottle was not the same stuff. I thought they discontinued it.

Barbara, If it is water based it will say so In big letters right under the word "ADAMS", otherwise you have to look at the ingridients to find the other catalyst when its alcohol based.