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Originally Posted by Sunnie  ya know.. I am split on this. I will tell you why. Last July we were on a trip in the RV with all of the yorkies. I live in the CA desert where we do NOT have fleas. But to be safe.. I had all 5 treated with Frontline prior to leaving on the trip since we would be travelling into Florida and Texas. All was fine until we got to Florida. ALL 5 got fleas after spending 2 hours at my elderly aunts house. Her yorkie was severely infested and since she was 92 years old.. she did not see them.. But WE did.. we saw them all over the place and left as soon as we realised it. By the time we got back to the RV.. we could see that ALL of mine were covered in fleas. So we stopped at a pet supply and asked what we should do. They recommended an over the counter spray for thier bedding and a shampoo for them. The product they recommended was advertised as a TOTALLY NON TOXIC NATURAL flea treatment. We were instructed to shampoo them then to spray them as well along with thier bedding. So we followed the instructions to a T. The fleas immediately were gone and we breathed a sigh of relief. We continued on our trip and 3 days later my 5 1/2 yr old Sunnie became totally lethargic and his gums were pure white. We rushed him to an ER vet in Texas where we had just arrived. Sunnie had been seen licking his legs and apparently had ingested the flea spray (that was "all natural, non toxic") He stayed overnight at the ER vet and they told us he would be fine to pick him up at 6am. When we arrived to pick him up, the vet came out and told me he had just passed away. Now I don't know about Frontline.... but ANY flea medication INGESTED could kill your pet. Frontline would be hard to ingest as it is put on between the shoulder blades. I so wish I knew then what I have learned since. The way the flea medication works is like this... fleas have a waxy coating on their bodies. the flea sprays dissolve the coating and the flea literally "explodes". This was told to me by the owner of the company that makes the flea spray I used. I am thinking that if a flea can explode from this, what does it do to their stomaches if they ingest it? Well, I can tell you it isn't pretty. Sunnie already had a sensitive stomach and the flea medication upset it so badly that it caused his death. My vet here at home told me I was lucky I did not lose all 5 of them. My whole purpose of writing all of this is NOT to say that Frontline will kill your baby, but rather to remind everyone that anything your pet could ingest COULD kill them as well. |
was this what you used as i have used this before but i do not use flea protection on mine as i looked into it and it does not kill the fleas for 24-48 hrs so the dog still gets bit and i was treating only for flea allergy so since she still gets bit i opted out. I just bath them with this if they get fleas but we do not have a big prob here - the fronline kills the population and i thought it killed the flea instantly when they bit the dog and that is not so
Natural Chemistry De Flea Pet Shampoo at PETCO