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Not my experience with Frontline. Ive been using it for 6 years and she spends many hours in my fenced yard in Ct.
In 6 years she has never had 1 tick or 1 flea and Ive never seen one in the house.
When I had dogs, quite a few years ago, in Ct., I use to have to check them every day for ticks. That was befor flea & tick products were available.
Perhaps there was something wrong with your particular Frontline package.
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Goes to show that the more pesticides we invent, the less effective they are. The tide has turned. The microorganisms are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
Time to clean up our act ---- not with pesticides that is!
Take care.
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I just returned from a vacation in the northwoods of WI (where I believe I was infected). We pulled 10+ ticks off my dog after hiking a well-groomed State forest trail. We were only walking about 45 minutes, and the dog was treated with Frontline less than a week prior.
For the entire week, we pulled 20+ ticks off our clothes and skin (none embedded), and we were not walking thru brush or the forest. Luckily, I only had one crawling around in my shoe (those darn buggers must've known I was already infected). My family has been visiting the same area for 25 years, and we have never seen so many ticks. The place was just infested with them! Posts: 79 | From Chicago, IL | Registered: Sep 2003
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Yikes! Thats alot if ticks! I hope your dog will be ok.
I use frontline on my 2 dogs and the ticks will not burrow into the skin but hitch hike in on the top of or middle of their fur and carry them into the house. I have stopped walking them in the woods last year. Just around our drive.
Caution with this stuff. Use golves! And don't touch that part of the fur for many days later either .It's very toxic. And make sure to use it at night so it can dry durning the night.
I try to make sure my dogs don't start out sleeping on their backs because the stuff will seep off. I watch them for a while after application.
A few times I put the frontline on and they slept on their sides and backs there was a big puddle of it on the floor.So they where not getting the full application.
You have to really be sure to squirt every last drop out of the container. Some tends to get stuck at the bottom.
It says on the box to wait 3 days min. before the dogs can get wet.
Take care and hope your doggie while feel better soon
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It is my understanding that frontline does not kill ticks immediately...they still have to bite the dog before they get the deadly dose of Frontline that leaves them paralyzed...Is this correct?
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quote:Originally posted by Jewlbug: I just returned from a vacation in the northwoods of WI (where I believe I was infected). We pulled 10+ ticks off my dog after hiking a well-groomed State forest trail. We were only walking about 45 minutes, and the dog was treated with Frontline less than a week prior.
For the entire week, we pulled 20+ ticks off our clothes and skin (none embedded), and we were not walking thru brush or the forest. Luckily, I only had one crawling around in my shoe (those darn buggers must've known I was already infected). My family has been visiting the same area for 25 years, and we have never seen so many ticks. The place was just infested with them!
Jewelbug, I live in northern Wisconsin and I hear ya' loud and clear. The ticks are overwhelming this year up here.
Funny, WI.'s renowned St Joseph's medical center in Marshfield [Mayo-Lite] stated that they haven't had many lyme cases this year. Of course, when you can only diagnose about 10% of actual cases that does seem to hold down the numbers somewhat.
But, go 40 miles northeast near Wausau [Aspirus Hospital] where the physicians are pretty lyme literate and they'll tell you it's a banner year for lyme so far.
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I comb in a combination of essential oils (vetiver, rose geranium, lemon in an almond oil base) to repel ticks, with Frontline as back up to kill them off in case they get past the oils.
So far, no tick (or flea) problems at all, although other dogs in the neighborhood are carrying around boatloads of the little buggers.
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