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Took a 2nd tick off my dog today, found the first one the other day and i'm pretty sure it was dead. I frontline my dog regularly.

This one was still alive and looked kind of flat and empty. I rubbed it with a tissue and it eventually let go. My dog wasn't happy about this. It was on his ear and seemed to be sore.

Now I'm totally paranoid about him having more and I want to check him!! Poodles and their thick fur!!
 

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Frontline is falling out of favor among vets. No longer protective for the majority of fleas and ticks. There are two orals much more effective, Nexgard and Bravecto. Must be 6 months of age and over 4lbs. And yes it is by prescription only to make sure the correct size is dispensed at the right age.
 

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Frontline is falling out of favor among vets. No longer protective for the majority of fleas and ticks. There are two orals much more effective, Nexgard and Bravecto. Must be 6 months of age and over 4lbs. And yes it is by prescription only to make sure the correct size is dispensed at the right age.

Good to know, thanks. I have been wondering about Frontline all this year, as I've used it on my cats and dog and yet the dog still brings in a flea every now and then. Reason I know it's her and not a cat is because she barks at them. She twists around and barks at her back. I get the flea comb and sure enough, a flea or two.
 

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Good to know, thanks. I have been wondering about Frontline all this year, as I've used it on my cats and dog and yet the dog still brings in a flea every now and then. Reason I know it's her and not a cat is because she barks at them. She twists around and barks at her back. I get the flea comb and sure enough, a flea or two.
Well, that's interesting.
I use Vectra and it's working wonders. It also protects against more than frontline and advantix. Also, it's a repellant, so the fleas and ticks don't have to bite to be taken care of. It stops them from wanting to bite in the first place :)
 

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My dog had a tick on his ear this week ,I tried pulling it off with tweezers but it wouldn't come off,so had to drive 20 miles so my son could pull it off.

Always had dogs but never seen a tick before,and now it looks like the ear has become infected .
 

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Frontline is falling out of favor among vets. No longer protective for the majority of fleas and ticks. There are two orals much more effective, Nexgard and Bravecto. Must be 6 months of age and over 4lbs. And yes it is by prescription only to make sure the correct size is dispensed at the right age.

This is good to know and quite a coincidence. A friend was just complaining to me yesterday that her Frontline wasn't working and I told her about Nexgard. I used it in New Orleans and I never saw any fleas on my dogs, while all the other dogs we were working with were covered in them.

Lucky for me fleas won't survive where I live, even if we bring them back with us from other areas. They just die off. I've seen sticktite fleas on some wild rabbits, but no dog fleas will live up here.
 

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Anyone have opinions on the Seresto collars?
 

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Anyone have opinions on the Seresto collars?

I have heard of them, but I have no experience with them and no opinion yet.


Personally, all of these drugs and chemicals make me nervous and I try to avoid them when I can.
 

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I have heard of them, but I have no experience with them and no opinion yet.


Personally, all of these drugs and chemicals make me nervous and I try to avoid them when I can.
yeah, I feel the same way.
 

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I heard from a vet tech friend of mine that Frontline and other similar topical flea and tick treatments have possibly been causing shoulder cancer in some animals. Has anyone else heard this?
 

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I heard from a vet tech friend of mine that Frontline and other similar topical flea and tick treatments have possibly been causing shoulder cancer in some animals. Has anyone else heard this?
I haven't heard that,but i know theres supposed to be a lot of deaths associated with it
 

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No reports of cancer with Frontline. It is probably the safest flea/tick product available. The above post is a bit concerning to me. Unless you have factual data to support your claim on lots of deaths, it is an inappropriate statement to make. I personally have applied thousands of doses of Frontline over the past 10 years and have not seen one reaction other than occasional hair loss at the site.
 

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I use Revolution flea/tick/heart worm
Prevention. Apply 1x / month to skin and it absorbs into their blood stream.

All medications have potential side effects - human & animal. My dogs have no issue with it I can detect.

There is always a risk / benefit analysis with medication. But here in the South - these little pests can cause the animal great discomfort - even kill them.
 

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No reports of cancer with Frontline. It is probably the safest flea/tick product available. The above post is a bit concerning to me. Unless you have factual data to support your claim on lots of deaths, it is an inappropriate statement to make. I personally have applied thousands of doses of Frontline over the past 10 years and have not seen one reaction other than occasional hair loss at the site.
try googleing it,there plenty of information about it.
 

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Sorry, don't agree. The ASPCA Poison Control Center did not report any toxicities or carcinogens w/ Fipronil. Adverse events reported to FDA are not always accurate. Any issue that is listed as an adverse event may not always be directly linked to the product. Age, Breed, other systemic factors unknown at the time of application could be the cause, but it still gets reported as an adverse event. There is a ton of anecdotal reports of issues related to Fipronil. That DOES NOT CONSTITUTE FACTUAL DATA.
This is directly from the Poison Control Center.
Fipronil is a phenylpyrazole insecticide. It is found in spot-ons and sprays (Frontline®) for pets, along with roach traps. It is also licensed for food crops in 30 countries and for use on golf courses in the US. Fipronil works by binding to the GABA receptors of insects and blocking chloride passage. By being a GABA antagonist, fipronil causes excitation of the nervous system in insects. (Cole, 1993) Its neurotoxicity is selective, because the configuration of GABA receptors in mammals is different from insects. The activity of fipronil is opposite to that of ivermectin.

Fipronil is not systemically absorbed. (Weil, 1997) Fipronil is detected on the hair shafts but is never detected in the dermis and adipose tissue, suggesting that it is absorbed and accumulated in the sebaceous glands, from which it is slowly released via follicular ducts.

Fipronil is a safe insecticide. It has been tested and can be used in kittens and puppies as young as 8 weeks of age. It is easily removed by bathing in the first 48 hours after application before it is absorbed into the sebaceous glands. (Weil, 1997) In toxicity studies, the application of Frontline® spray to dogs and cats at a dose five times higher than recommended for 6 months did not cause any clinical, biochemical, hematological, or cutaneous abnormalities. (Consalvi, 1996) Oral doses equal to 87 pipettes in dogs and 20 pipettes in cats showed no adverse reactions beyond drooling and occasional vomiting. A few skin hypersensitivity reactions have been reported, most likely to the carrier. Fipronil, used off-label, has been reported anectodally to cause seizures in rabbits. (Webster, 1999)

There have been reports of benign thyroid tumors in rats exposed to fipronil and concern was expressed about the potential for carcinogenicity. These rat thyroid tumors were caused by suppression of thyroxin (T4) and a subsequent increase in thyrotropin stimulation hormone production leading to thyroid gland hyperplasia. Feeding studies in mice did not find any evidence of carcinogenicity and in addition, studies in dogs exposed to fipronil showed no effect on T4 or thyroid stimulation hormone concentrations. (Keister, 1996) Based on these findings, it was concluded that the carcinogenicity was limited to rats.
 

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I don't know about using a supplement or dosage, or how well it'd work for pets but sulfur has worked well for me. I've drank sulfurous well water for years, haven't had a problem with ticks, fleas, chiggers, or mosquitos.
 

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