first has anyone heard of a flea treatment called advantage? Is it something a vet gives out? I am totally lost, someone i know claims that frontline spot on does not get rid of her dogs fleas, she claims that only one of her dogs have fleas, the dog in question is infested with them i myself swear by frontline, my dogs have never suffered from fleas.

There are loads of varieties of spot-on; none of them cover all parasites, and some animals are sensitive to one and not another. Advantage is one of the ones available from vets.

my vet sells advantage - it is the standard one they dispense

> i myself swear by frontline,

Me too!

ah thanks for the replys i am just so concerned about this dog she really needs to see a vet but as yet she has not been taken and its not just a flea problem, she has what i can only describe as a deformed toe, which she was not born with, its like a growth on the middle toe that makes it very long with a big lump, then the claw, also she has lumps on her rib cage, nipples and legs i have told them many a time to take her to the vets but they cant afford to despite they both work, and they do not have her insured ever  

> first has anyone heard of a flea treatment called advantage?

Our vets went through a phase of stocking it. Now they have gone back to Frontline as they say they were "unhappy with the results". All I think is that Advantage was quite expensive and these days we order our Frontline from Canine Chemists for a much better price.

My dog can only have advantage as she has an Auto immune illness and frontline i was told is absorbed into the blood whereas advantage isn't...no flea's so far and she has been using it for 6 months now.

There is a new Flea treatment 'Effipro' using the same ingredient as Frontline (Fipronil) as Frontline manufacturers no longer have sole rights to it.

The spray (the only versions I have confidence in) of both are prescription only, but the Spot ons can be bought on-line.

ive used it 4 years,no probs and no fleas!

Hey,
We've had Advatage by mistake as i wanted the Advocate instead.
Anyway i would recommend it in that we've never had a flea on our dogs since using it, the Advocate is flea and wormer combined, and as far as i know its the same flea product in both as made by the same company.

We have never used frontline on the dogs, but have on the cats and can say it doesn't appear to overly work on them, so we have moved onto advantage for the cats to see what difference this makes to them. They are buggers for picking up fleas from the animals they catch.

We have Advantix thats it with tick cover (picked one off Whistler today doesn't work)

Apparently from a flea expert on the tv - if a dog has fleas then the fleas are usually cat fleas as dog fleas in the UK are very rare!

Also, garlic is a brilliant flea deterrent as is brewers yeast, so adding one or both of these to the dogs diet each day will protect against fleas, without applying chemicals that dogs can and quite often do react badly to.

>garlic is a brilliant flea deterrent as is brewers yeast

For most dogs that's fine, but brewers yeast has an extremely high purine level and is not advised for dalmatians at all. (Just to make sure that other dal owners reading this don't start using it. )

For most dogs that's fine, but brewers yeast has an extremely high purine level and is not advised for dalmatians at all. (Just to make sure that other dal owners reading this don't start using it.

I wasn't aware of that Jeangenie so thanks for flagging that up, it's like most things if it suits your dog that's fine but if it doesn't find something else.

What about garlic, is that ok for Dalmations? 

Garlic's fine.