![]() of oil after oil spills and has helped save many, many animals. ![]() (Dawn will not sicken your animal it is used on wildlife to clean their skin/feathers/fur etc. But it’s better than having a sick animal. And the cat most likely won’t like a bath. But after that incident we did use Dawn and it killed every single flea and my cat was still healthy. I truly hope no one else’s pet has to go through such a horrific experience – as it nearly killed my cat and broke my heart to see him like that.Īs for Dawn: it may cause dryness, I don’t know, or flakiness of the skin. Most of them seem to care more about their sales of the product than the life of your animal, sadly. Some vets out there do know (and tell) the truth. I will never use another commercial flea product again (whether it’s vet-recommended or not). It also “ate” a hole in my cat’s neck where I put the original application of the product – and the hole refused to heal for weeks… bleeding and weeping – as if it had literally burned into his skin (which it had). That was the only vet I talked to who knew the scoop on just how many pets had died or were sickened by this horrible product. I even ran into a VET who, when I quizzed her about the effects of this poison (Advantage) said she would personally NEVER recommend Advantage to any animal. Even bathing once weekly, you should still have pretty good flea-control for a month. If the pet has had Frontline applied, that skin oil will contain the flea-killing chemicals. Even without lotion, the skin will put out another layer of oil from the little glands in the hair follicles. ![]() You know how dry your own skin feels when you get out of the shower in the wintertime - you’ve stripped off the oil layer and there’s nothing to hold the moisture in your skin. Certainly you can scrub it off with soap and water. The excess wicks down into the oil glands in the hair follicles. When you apply it, it distributes through the skin oil, spreading over the entire body. Fipronil is oil-soluble, not water-soluble. Unlike the aforementioned products, it really lasts a month for most pets, and it survives bathing. Like the aforementioned products, you apply the contents of one pre-measured tube to the pet’s skin, putting it under the hair. Īt KVC, we’ve had better luck with Frontline Plus (Merial’s fipronil). Now they don’t seem like quite so much of a bargain. If you use these products, you probably need to use them once per week, not once per month. Worse, though they say you can use them once per month, they don’t mention that these particular chemicals degrade rapidly in the open air and sunlight. They are also water-soluble, so a bath eliminates the product. The over-the-counter products you can buy at Wal-Mart are either pyrethrin or permethrin. If you’re bathing three times per month (much less three times per day), this is not a good product for you to use once per month. The dog is now "Advantage-free" and unprotected as far as fleas go. ![]() The first bath will take half of the product and the next bath takes the rest. It does last for a month, unless… Scrubbing with soap and water takes it right off. A simple wetting, like getting caught in the rain, does not remove them. The chemical forms tiny crystals that stick to the hair and skin and kill fleas (and their eggs) on contact. It spreads over the entire body when you squirt the little tube on the back. Now Adantage (Bayer’s imidocloprid) is a good product. You need to examine that patient’s entire lifestyle. This is one of those times that points up why it is so important to take a complete history when looking at the dog’s problem. He certainly gets several baths per month. "How often do you bathe him? Bathing removes the Advantage pretty quickly you know." Turns out, this dog likes to roll in nasty things (imagine that!) and sometimes is bathed more than once in a single day. Examination revealed that the dog had many fleas present. Today we had a lady who felt that her dog must have multiple allergy problems requiring lots of cortisone, because she had the fleas under control - she was using Advantage every month. Unfortunately, this only works if the product really stays on the pet for the whole month, if that’s what you’re expecting it to do. When they return to the flea-cocoon-infested area, and pick up new fleas (within seconds), the new fleas die before they start the cycle over again. This is why having a flea-control product that stays on the pet for one month is so great. Once they develop into a new flea, they can remain dormant for months in your yard, carpet, upholstery, etcetera. Each flea lays hundreds of eggs each weak, and they fall off into the environment. The point is that most of the flea’s life cycle takes place OFF the animal in the environment. I’d go through the whole flea life cycle, but these folks have done a lovely job for you.
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