FRONTLINE Plus Flea and Tick Treatment is a popular choice for vets in North America for treating dogs and cats. All 100% of the fleas are killed inside 24 hours and all the ticks are killed within 48 hours when you use Frontline.
Making FRONTLINE Plus Flea and Tick Treatment flea killer rise above other medications is its ability to effectively control fleas and ticks for an entire month. This is near double the time length of other leading competitors, thus making FRONTLINE Plus Flea and Tick Treatment the most preferred choice. Pet owners are also attracted to Frontline since it is waterproof and will stay on through baths.
Chemical formulations are included in dog flea medications in order to kill the parasites. This sounds much more harsh than it is. The product is actually so gentle that it can be used on nursing mothers as well as kittens and puppies as young as 8 weeks old.
It works by applying directly onto the coat. Usually a dot of the liquid onto the back of the neck is preferred. Translocation is the process that the flea medication will be dispersed over the whole coat.
To allow for translocation to occur, make sure your pet stays dry for twenty-four hours. When the medicine is translocated, you will not have to apply it again. It will protect your pet for an entire month.
Frontline treatment actually breaks the flea’s breeding cycle because of its added ingredient. FRONTLINE Plus Flea and Tick Treatment is a medication that has been tried and trusted among the products of the Frontline family. Frontline knocks fleas dead in 18 hours; before the fleas have the 24-36 hours of time they require to reproduce.
If you see more fleas during the 18-hour period, it is because hyper-agitation is forcing them to the surface of the coat before they are killed.
Two of the biggest competitors are PetArmor and K9 Advantix II flea control which are both very good products. FRONTLINE Plus Flea and Tick Treatment compares very favorably partly because it has been around for 20 years and given pet owners the results they have desired.
Organic flea treatments and many other types of flea spray for dogs and other pet flea medications are available. However, Frontline is proven to be the most useful and effective flea preventative. FRONTLINE Plus Flea and Tick Treatment comes highly recommended by veterinarians since it has hardly any side effects. However, a few dogs may be allergic to it, so if there is an issue, see a vet as quickly as possible.
The only drawback of Frontline flea and tick killer is its inability to exterminate heartworms, and only has a mild effect at best in treating sarcoptic mange. Frontline focuses only on fleas and ticks.
Just a note that if you use a product specifically designed for parasites, you will still need to rid your pet of hookworms and heartworms with another specific product for that.
