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I use interceptor and frontline both on my dogs no problems whatsoever
Since I have Ibizans, I can't use
anything like Frontline, even if I wanted to.
The only thing halfway safe to use around them [and most sight hounds] is Permethrin and that is only used in yard spraying.
Years ago, my dog's sister was flown from NY to MD.
The woman flea dipped her, flea sprayed her, flea powdered her and then put a flea collar on her.
During that 3 hour flight, ALL of her hair fell off and she died less than a year later from massive immunological problems.
Almost a year ago, my friend put Frontline on her Australian Cattle Dog [in spite of warnings not to use in a home with cats] and not only did his hair fall out his skin started to swell, ooze and slough off, even though she then saw the cat warning and bathed him repeatedly right after applying it.
He will have to be on Prednisone for the rest of his miserable life.
[and chunks of him literally still randomly drop off]
We keep the grass mowed, the leaves raked up, spray frequently, no longer feed the birds in the dog yard and check for ticks like obsessive-compulsives.
That's why it came as such a
devastating shock that Odin turned up positive.
Considering that out of all ticks, generally a very small percentage are carrying Lyme, we figure he had to have had it already when he came here.
I saw -3- ticks last year and none of them were on him, nor had they been attached yet, to the other dogs.
I suspect his dam is infected and passing it to her pups.
[which would explain why she was robust while pregnant but went to hell after delivering her litter....too much stress and the dormant infection flared up?]
The way those people "keep"
their dogs and the way I keep
mine are world's apart.
That's a huge part of why the possibility of Lyme never entered the equation Sunday night.
My kids just
don't get it,
here.
I can only hope we caught it soon enough and can minimize the damage.
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