4 month old GSD puppy...16 pounds... - Page 2

Revolution is used for heartworm preventive. It kills adult fleas and prevents flea eggs from hatching. It also controls of ear mites and sarcoptic mange and ticks.
 
Heartgard is for the control of Heart Worms,Hook worms and Round worms

Frontline is for Fleas and Ticks

I don't understand why the over kill on the products, you really only need either the frontline and heartgard or just the revolution.

nothing listed kills tapeworms.......

use panacur c or safe guard for goats x 5 days to kill tape worms and guirdia

if puppy has worms, the treatment must be repeated in a week to kill the worms that were eggs when treated the first time.

safe guard for goats is much less expensive, its the same stuff, use at 3x the goat doseage.

so happy puppy is getting better!!

i used to do "rescue" for dogs and puppies on death row..so we had a lot of "nervous" pups come to our home. even my boy was warry of strangers to a point. what I did was found his favorite food (he loved billjack liver) and took him to home depot or lowes (most allow dogs to come inside) the first month i didn't let a single person touch my puppy. every time he looked at me he got a reward..i didn't tell him to look at me, but when i caught his attention he got a treat. he caught on pretty quick that if he ignors what's going on and just keeps his attention on me there is nothing bad going to happen. some people will be quite rude when they go to pet your puppy and you stand in the way and tell them he's being trained. but your pup will see your the leader and the leader will never allow anything bad to happen. after that you can let children give treats and then women and then men. toys work great too if your pup is high drive.  now Ace could care less about other people, doesn't feel threatened by anyone, and yet doesn't jump all over strangers with kisses either.

just what worked for me :)  hope all goes well..and again i'm so glad that pup got ya'll as a family!  maybe it was just meant to be :)

Thank you all for the info.  I took puppy to my vet when I first got him and he received injections to kill ALL worms.  After two weeks I gave puppy to my daughter in Boston (I am in NY).  Her vet did a stool sample and it came back neg for worms.  Daughter will do another sample in two weeks to be sure.  I felt vet was a little overkill myself...but I wasn't there...and never heard of revolution before.  Whats done is done and daughter now knows she can say no to vets!
Daughter took puppy to park today and he was shy at first but then all kisses to the kids and allowed adults to pet no problem.  Hopefully he will not be shy on walk with daughter tomorrow...again...no fear...and the good thing is that he was looking at daughter to see if it was OK!!!  It sounds like he is doing great!  And daughter is doing just as great!!!!  :)
And Harleyace....I definately think "it was meant to be"!

 A new product is now out for fleas and heartworm that you might want to try. Two drugs have now been combined together. My GSD has severe dermatitis from topical flea products.  The new product is Trifectus and it is oral heartworm & flea medicine in one.  It runs about $18-19 per pill.  IIt kills fleas on all 3 stages.  My vet says she has heard good results on it.  Reproductive health research has not been done on the combined product so I would be careful on pregnant and nursing females.  Good luck on your new child.  Hopefully there is any lasting development issues.