Senior moment review that wouldnt flea plus#

Everything must be natural, absolutely nothing artificial, no chemicals, no preservatives, etc. I am very cautious about what goes in their mouths. And still no fleas! I want to add here that even though we keep them on heartworm prevention year-round, we only use flea prevention during the warmer months. We didn’t plan on adopting anyone else for quite a long time, but as fate would have it, we ended up adopting Austin in December 2012, just two short months after LittleBear passed. But again, another story for another day. To say that we were devastated by his passing is to put it very, very, very mildly. Still no fleas! LittleBear left us to make his way to the Rainbow Bridge in October 2012. Would more dogs increase the likelihood of fleas? We continued using Program on both of them with complete success. No “flea dirt” to show evidence of fleas. We were crazy about checking him thoroughly too, lifting up little portions of fur at a time, all over his body. Still though, we had a hard time believing that it would be that effective, especially for a whole month at a time. Program works by preventing flea eggs and larvae from developing, controlling the population by interrupting the life cycle. Hmm… a pill that you give once a month and your dog would magically have no fleas? It sounded way too good to be true. So what else?Īnd that’s when we found Program. For flea prevention, we looked at all the topical products (there are even more on the market now than there were back then), but we really didn’t want to apply anything to his skin.

Senior moment review that wouldnt flea plus#

The other products promised to prevent heartworm, hookworm, and roundworm infections… but Interceptor covered all three of those plus whipworm… so it seemed like the obvious choice. For heartworm prevention, we chose Interceptor because it protected against more parasites than its competitors. We didn’t go anywhere without him… but that’s another story. We weren’t as educated on vaccinations as we are now (and I’m still learning all the time as the protocols change), so we just went with the vet’s recommendations at the time: rabies and DA2PP bordetella if he needed to be boarded or be around other dogs. The other stuff, we knew we’d have to research to make good decisions. Right after dinner – still food on the bowl. LittleBear made that last part very easy. Vaccinating on schedule, heartworm prevention, flea prevention, good quality food, and of course, most importantly… tons and tons (and tons) of love.

In 2004, when my husband and I adopted our first dog together (LittleBear), we wanted to do everything right. We’ve only used one flea prevention product… and it has worked successfully… perfectly even… for nine thirteen years. But that would be speculating, as we have no way to know for certain. I could credit it to their good health, as I’ve heard that parasites, fleas and otherwise, are more attracted to sickly/weak/unhealthy animals.

Because we haven’t used or even tried a variety of products. I could credit their lack of fleas to the almost overwhelming variety of flea prevention products available in the modern dog era. Not much else, just legs.Īs a dog-owning dog-owned adult, I do allow my dogs on the couches now, but I wouldn’t if they had fleas. As a note, when dining on humans, fleas seem to love legs. I remember being bitten quite often by fleas, since we allowed the dogs on the couches and beds, which further spread the infestation.

And we tried everything on the market at the time: flea shampoos, flea powders, flea sprays, flea collars… you name it. We had flea “treatments”, which were nothing more than a temporary fix at best, if a fix at all. Back then, we didn’t have all the flea prevention products that are available now. And because they had to contend with fleas, we had to contend with fleas. When I was growing up, I remember our dogs having to contend with many fleas. Fleas… they are perhaps one of the most disgusting creatures upon planet Earth.