I just wanted to start a new thread for any advice, opinions, concerns, etc for this flea medication.

I gave it to my dog about 2 weeks ago and I am having good results so far.

It is a small pill you give them.

I had used Frontline last year, along with Promeris, Bio-Spot, topical sprays and everything in between. Nothing seemed to work for long.

My dog also developed a flea allergy which later caused her to have a skin infection.

All that is under control now and we are having a good experience with the Comfortis.

Today, I picked a small tick off her. It had apparently tried to attach but was dead. So, maybe this stuff is helping with ticks, too.

Hope this helps, and post anything you may know about the flea med.

I have never tried it I have great results with frontline.
I have always wanted to but 15 bucks a month I pay that for 4 months of frontline. Note I buy the huge frontline and split it up have for years

Everyone I have talked to said they love it works great so on and so fourth.

It was eleven bucks for me. That comes out to about the same thing as frontline. Of course, I have only one dog and she is small.

I switched after fighting with frontline, advantix and advantage. Suckers seem to become immune. First month on it, so far so good.

We just got back from the derm vet a couple of hours ago.

I asked the derm vet about Advantage Multi and frequent bathing (to alleviate allergy symptoms), she said that Advantage stays on the top layer of the skin, and tends to get washed off more easily. Frontline goes deeper into the skin and is better for dogs that need to be bathed frequently. She, however, recommended Comfortis. She says that she has had good success with it, for dogs that have flea allergy or need to be bathed frequently because of environmental allergy.

I am probably going to switch my dog to Comfortis next month.

Kasey has allergies and flea bites also drive him nuts. The derma vet had us start him on Comfortis last month, in addition to Frontline. Comfortis DOES NOT kill ticks, so if you have ticks around you have to use Frontline too. They have you put on the Frontline, and then 2 weeks later give the Comfortis, then 2 weeks later Frontline, etc., so that every 2 weeks you are overlapping the protection.

I did A LOT of research, on this flea pill. The main ingredient is Spinosad. Spinosad is a mixture of the two most active naturally occurring metabolites (spinosyns A and D) produced by S. spinosa, which apparently is a soil dwelling bacteria. It is a 'green organic' insecticide (which is different from a pesticide) and won Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 1999 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

I don't love giving my dog flea meds, topical or oral, but as Connie has said a bunch of times, you have to weigh the benefits and consequences. If a dog has allergies and one flea bite sends them into a cycle of biting, broken skin, infection, etc. , then you are going to be dealing with skin problems that can end of being worse than the flea med. AND the dog is miserable. I asked my derma vet, and my 2 regular vets about the Comfortis and they all have said they give it to their own dogs and they have not seen anything more serious than vomiting from it. Which, by the way, vomiting is the most common side effect - about 10-15% of dogs will vomit and it happens mostly in the first 48 hours. If they do vomit, Comfortis will replace the pill for free and you can try it again. The vomiting usually, from what I understand, gets better after a couple of months. They don't keep vomiting, they just vomit once or twice in the first day or two and they're done. FYI!

So if you really need to stop fleas in their tracks, it seems this pill works better than Frontline and is a reasonable choice, especially in the spring/summer months.