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Originally Posted by kayi078  I put frontline plus on TomTom every month and today after i took him to my friend's house i found 1 flea on his body....so Will bathing my puppy once a week wash away the Frontline plus or just frontline plus not working?? I use half dose (0.34ml) on TomTom which was recommend by my vet.
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Most topicals do not repel fleas or ticks. They only kill them once they have bitten so you may see a live flea on your dogs from time to time if they have been around another dog with fleas or picked up a hitchhiker from some bushes/long grass. I too use half a tube on Morgan and have never had a problem when using it.
I apply the frontline after a bath, usually at night time so i don't have to worry about touching it. You can apply the frontline right after you have bathed and fully dried your dog. However, you cannot bathe your dog right after you apply the frontline. You must wait 48 hours after applying Frontline to get your dog wet.
Shampoos will not wash the frontline away once it has set in after 48 hours. You can use whatever shampoo you want, it does not have to be oatmeal. Most quality shampoos will say right on the bottle that it is safe to use with topical flea treatments.
If you have an outbreak of fleas you do not need to wash with dish soap. dish soap is very drying to the skin and can cause irritation. It is not needed to kill fleas. Any shampoo can kill fleas. The trick is to apply it to a dry dog, starting at the top of the head (occiput) and working your way to the tail. Then leave the product on for 10 minutes. The soap is what kills the fleas because they cannot breath. If you get your dog wet first the fleas can form a barrier around themselves to protect themselves from the coming soap invasion. They will also crawl into any opening they can to escape (mouth,ears, anus, etc...). Citrus based shampoos are great at killing fleas because they break down the exo-skeleton of the flea thereby suffocating them.