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Originally Posted by viviansnickers  And the unsureness goes on and on and on and on......
It's so hard isn't it?
I think I posted before that I hate the goop that you have to apply with many of these and also I like to bathe Snick about every 2 weeks and since he is 3.5 lbs, I don't feel that the prescribed amounts apply to such a tiny doggy. I like how Sentinel has weight appropriate dosage and precscriptions. I am going to give it him during the warmer months and then just heartguard during the cool mnts. I also bought coconut oil to apply to him which aids in flea control and killing a possible flea. (different thread)
I hope I'm doing the right thing....ugh! |
If you want the same heartworm preventative year-round but don't want to give flea meds year-round, you could do Sentinel in the summer and Interceptor in the winter.
Interceptor and Sentinel's smallest dose is for dogs 2-10 pounds but at least as far as the heartworm part of the drug goes (milbemycin oxime), only one-fifth of the amount they put in the pill would work. They supposedly add teh extra four-fifths for intestinal parasites and in my opinion, Yorkies don't need to be dewormed monthly.
This 1/5 4/5 thing is Googlable.
All that to say people don't like Heartgard because of the dosing when Interceptor/Sentinel appears to be just as bad. Milbemycin oxime does come in a safeheart dose (only enough to kill heartworm larvae) but it isn't available here.