Is anyone else having problems with Frontline this year? - Page 2

A few years ago I had a run in with a Frontline resistant strain - no the Frontline Plus did not make any difference there.

Had to do the whole ritual [bombs, yard treatment, flea baths, switching around flea meds]  It was brutal.

Switch to k9Advantix,

Topical prevention and treatment of ticks, fleas,and mosquitoes for monthly use
on dogs and puppies 7 weeks of age and older.

There ain't no bugs on me!

HaHa, love that commercial!!

It's not the dog that becomes resistant to these products, it's the insects. We alternate monthly between Frontline Plus and K9-Advantix, and we alternate yearly between Heartgard Plus and Interceptor.

During the height of the tick season (fleas are not an issue where we live) we give a quick spray with Zodiac, just the legs and sides, before we go hiking, herding, or tracking. While we have not had any attached ticks on the dogs we do seem to have a problem with them hitching a ride into the house.

Don't you just love that full alert your sleeping brain wakes up to when it feels a tick crawling on you in the middle of the night?

LOL.  Shhhhh!  Don't tell her that.  You'll give her a complex.

Something similar happened to a friend and her GSD.  Huge bald patches along his back where she had applied it and it spread down his sides, tail, everywhere.  She said he was miserable with the itching.  I know she said she bathed him a couple of times that month with Betadine but it really wasn't much help.  Took him a few months just to get past the point where she didn't have to use sunscreen on him.

My three year old shepherd had a bad reaction to Frontline last month.   As soon as I applied it, she ran away and tried to rub it off.  Then she hovered around me so I could feel her back, which was very hot.  The spots along her spine radiated heat.  That night, she kept waking me up, hovering over me in bed, and shoving her back at me so I would know it was hot.  By four am no one was sleeping, so I gave her a bath.  She happily stood in the shower as I washed her three times.  The next day, I washed her again a few more times to make sure it was off.   This result is similar to what happened last year, when my other dog got chemical burns from Frontline.  He still has bald spots along his spine.  

I think Frontline is a nasty chemical if it leaves burn marks on my dog.  We don't really seem to get fleas here, but ticks are bad, so we avoid brushy areas.  And I've tried Liquid Fence, it seems to work.

I began using the frontline as a convenience, I still use a conventional kennel dip and it can be mixed to spray around the kennel's and other hot spot's beside's just using it on the dog's.   They are all chemical's I would rather not use but we here are in a tick infested area and I am forced to spray myself as well with Permonone just to go out the door.   I've had the rash and still have bad reaction's to tick bite's. 

Take's the fun out of the forest for me, I live right in the middle of it.

A good wild fire would cure this but we don't let nature do its job anymore.   Too many home's and people and the loss of money.

That's a different topic, I'll let it go.

I don't think all of my dogs could be resistant to it, especially since one is just a pup.  My dogs have never had fleas, they have chewed themselves to death.  It is also Frontline Plus, and is not expired.

One word... boycott.

Find the source of the flea's.

k9Advantix, dose not provides enough protection in areas where dear ticks are the major concern. Unfortunately I live in one of those areas. But I did find out that rather large numbers of dogs have allergic reaction to frontline. So do you homework before you apply anything :) Good luck. BTW so far I never had problem with frontline, but some of your stories are scary.