F in ticks

[D Lloyd 2,790]

Dogs are being plagued by ticks this here and midges tried few shampoo's and flee stuff is the anything really good for ticks . cheers

[Black neck 15,814]

Bravecto

[Dennis up 84]

Amitraz

[D Lloyd 2,790]

Are they injected or spot on / shampoo 

[Countryman62 541]

BNM from CSJ and a teaspoon apple cider vinegar in every feed, dogs been flea and tick free for last three years, if you need to shampoo get an insecticidal dog shampoo, that kills em dead on contact, atb

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

5 hours ago, D Lloyd said:

Are they injected or spot on / shampoo 

Bravecto is an edible dose, meat flavoured I think.

It's expensive but lasts 3 month whereas most other things onely last a month.

[Black neck 15,814]

2 hours ago, Maximus Ferret said:

Bravecto is an edible dose, meat flavoured I think.

It's expensive but lasts 3 month whereas most other things onely last a month.

6 month it does I'm told

[Shefflad69 214]

9 hours ago, D Lloyd said:

Dogs are being plagued by ticks this here and midges tried few shampoo's and flee stuff is the anything really good for ticks . cheers

Virbac prinovox is good stuff but pricy but works very well on ticks and fleas and all worms 

[Daniel cain 44,902]

[Black neck 15,814]

2 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

I found that herbal stuff Rubbish 

[Daniel cain 44,902]

3 hours ago, Black neck said:

I found that herbal stuff Rubbish 

used it a few times but added pure teatree oil in with it,worked on the terriers and ferrets

my big dog has an allergy to fleas, every treatment on the market bar advantage makes her hair fallout,have to do her every 4/5 weeks,if I don't she goes bald through scratching..have to cover her in benzoate then,cool the itching and wait for hair to come back

[Daniel cain 44,902]

5 minutes ago, Wideboy said:

How does she pick up fleas so regularly? Or is it just a preventative. Genuine question. 

more preventative..took us a while to suss what the problem was.. noticed she would start scratching every 5/6 weeks if I don't put it on her

my Mrs had an English bull when I met her,that dog was the same,needed treatment once a month or it go bald

[Black neck 15,814]

41 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

used it a few times but added pure teatree oil in with it,worked on the terriers and ferrets

my big dog has an allergy to fleas, every treatment on the market bar advantage makes her hair fallout,have to do her every 4/5 weeks,if I don't she goes bald through scratching..have to cover her in benzoate then,cool the itching and wait for hair to come back

Sounds a right game ,fair play 2 ya for sorting the itchy bugger out

[welsh_hunter12 119]

 Nexguard! Brilliant stuff. Vets charge a fortune for it but it can be bought online 
 

[Luckee legs 453]

Hi to all, I worked on parasite control in late 1990s. There's not many actives that control ticks (most insecticide modes of action kill adult fleas). Flea eggs in your house or dog bed need vacuuming and for a spray, suffocation with an oil would work, residual insecticide or an insect growth regulator would kill them as they emerge. For ticks the standout active is fipronil. When I lived in Essex and it was easy to booze cruise, I bought fipronil sprays in French hypermarkets. They seem to have less regulation on OTC vet products.  It's a stable active so good for 2 to 3 years in the pack. Fortunately we rarely suffer flea problems on dogs. Ferrets do suffer in season, every outing bring homes a load of fleas and I spray them with fipronil every 3 to 4 weeks and physically remove ticks, also change bedding and wipe round corners of bed areas a day or so after a ferreting trip to remove fleas / ticks that have fed and dropped off