Hi everybody - just wondering if anyone has any good advice re: Nexguard. Dante is particularly sensitive to fleas and I'm considering trying it.

 Quote: Matt Lang

Hi everybody - just wondering if anyone has any good advice re: Nexguard. Dante is particularly sensitive to fleas and I'm considering trying it.

Here is a good overview of some potential danger(s) from Nexgard and other orals.

http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/bravecto-nexgard-simparica-oral-flea-tick-preventives-safe/


Then, at https://www.nrdc.org/stories/nontoxic-ways-protect-your-pet scroll down to “Identify safer ingredients. If chemical products are necessary for additional flea or tick control ...”

I absolutely do use chemical flea prevention, BTW. I've had several dogs with flea-saliva allergy (or fleabite hypersensitivity or flea allergic dermatitis ... F.A.D.), and number one to save them misery and all the awful conditions that often accompany F.A.D., including yeast and/or bacterial skin infections (including ear infections -- that's skin in there, too) has always been to eliminate the trigger, the fleas.

But I really like the maxim about using the lowest level of toxin that still works.

For me, that usually means some reading.

PS
This article also has a bunch of info about tick meds ... http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/lyme-disease-in-dogs/


All JMO!

The comment about lime disease is very interesting!

 Quote: Bob Scott

The comment about lime disease is very interesting!

The one about the vested interest of the entities that seem to be bent on what could maybe be scare tactics?

The one about why dogs have a vaccine for lyme but not humans.

Makes me wonder if the dogs aren't just test animals.

Thank you Connie. In the past, I've usually done a rotation of Frontline (in the late Spring and early Summer) and then Advantage in the later part of the summer and the Fall. And I fill in with a Capguard once and a while. I don't usually need anything in the Winter. I try to treat as minimally as possible.

I know the Advantage is supposedly losing its effectiveness but it still seems to work for me. One good thing about the topicals is that the flea gets it before they bite the dog.

Thanks, Connie, for those links which really make me think over everything about this topic.

In Switzerland I used Frontline for my cats and it worked. Recommended from Vets. Yes, it worked, but we were not informed aboud the side effects.

Here in Brazil for my dogs it didn't have an even at least helpful effect with Front Line. They had less ticks, yes, but they still had. Two years ago it was extreme. we spent hours daily to remove the ticks from our dogs, although they were treated short time before the season came.

We had ticks everywhere, not only in the grass, also in in the cracks of walls. We had to treat all the walls around the house to. For the dogs we changed to Bravecto. It worked "perfectly". Not a single tick any more.

But now doing some reading via your links, I have great doubts. Well I've already given Bravecto for the next 3 months. But I'll go on reading about this. They had no side effects until now, but it is clear the toxins can accumulate and then the harm is already done.

Thanks for the great links. I also am with Bob. Reading all this arouses doubts about the industry. Our animals might be just guinea pigs for them. We can't prove it, but should be aware of such possibilities too.