Nexgard

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by peppysfireball

SORRY< I should have put LOL. I fully meant it in a joking manner since they said Illinois had no fleas. That was totallly not true. I am in illinois and they are atrocious here. I guess I never thought nuts was namecalling. I guess way out there was a better way of putting it. LOL. But those chewables are hard to use. THey have to be given on a full stomach of CANNED food. Thats from the manufacture. Or your dog can vomit them back up. And at 25.00 a pill that is a big waste. And you can't cut them in half as you don't know where on the pill the active ingredient is. It isn't in the whole pill. A machine drops it on the treat.

That's not true. They are not hard to use at all. They don't have to have a full stomach of canned food. Where did you see this?

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by dottiesyrky

I think MM said Ill does not have fleas? Peppy said that statement is not true as Ill does have fleas. Proof is that Peppy does have fleas and she lives in Ill.
QED. LOL!

? I'm a bit confused by this?

[Wylie's Mom]

Originally Posted by Lovetodream88

Even joking it's against the rules to call names.

Just to clarify a bit, asking "are you nuts?" isn't name calling. Name calling is..."you are a jerk" -- "you are an idiot".

Originally Posted by 107barney

I think that she (Megansmomma) simply meant that she doesn't have fleas. Her dogs don't have fleas. And where she lives in northern IL doesn't have a climate that has many fleas. I think calling her nuts wasn't cool, but that's just my read on it...

Yep, this is how I too read Jodi's comment. She was merely stating that she does not have a flea problem.

I do agree that saying to someone "are you NUTS?" is a little...well...abrupt and potentially rude, depending on context and intention. I'm glad the poster who said it came back and recognized that it probably wasn't quite the right thing to say.

[dottiesyrky]

Taylor.
Sorry I was not clear.
Megansmomma said "I'm in Ill, so there isn't a flea problem here." So Peppy responded by saying that was not true, as she is in Ill and does see fleas. This response was not accepted by some.
I and Peppy took the MM quote to mean " I'm in Ill, so(therefore) there isn't a flea problem here(in Ill). As in " I'm in the North Pole, so we don't have a flea problem here" ( OMG, I hope they do not have fleas in the North Pole??)
Perhaps MM meant there are not fleas in her part of Ill. But that is not what was written, in my reading of the words anyway.
Some including me tend to write as they would speak, and without body language and intonation to back up the words, words and their meaning can be open to interpretation.
But this thread is about Nexgard. Did not mean to deflect attention from the subject.

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

Just to clarify a bit, asking "are you nuts?" isn't name calling. Name calling is..."you are a jerk" -- "you are an idiot".



Yep, this is how I too read Jodi's comment. She was merely stating that she does not have a flea problem.

I do agree that saying to someone "are you NUTS?" is a little...well...abrupt and potentially rude, depending on context and intention. I'm glad the poster who said it came back and recognized that it probably wasn't quite the right thing to say.

[Cuppacafe]

Hi- I live in NJ but going to SC in Oct-Nov. we go to all dog parks & the beach. I socialize him with most dogs. Casey is 5 3/4lbs I was using Revolution (topical) from vet till his last visit. She changed because he went up 3/4lb. She didn't say anything about cutting pills etc she gave me Nexgard & Heartgard. I am supposed to start tomorrow but will wait till Sunday as I will be home all day. I am nervous about change & the chewies- Casey just stopped taking his omega 3 chewie??? And Nexgard says must be chewed not swallowed whole. Yes 1st time Yorkie owner & he is 13 mos old. Need advice on cutting pills too? Thanks all that help!

[Britster]

Originally Posted by Cuppacafe

Hi- I live in NJ but going to SC in Oct-Nov. we go to all dog parks & the beach. I socialize him with most dogs. Casey is 5 3/4lbs I was using Revolution (topical) from vet till his last visit. She changed because he went up 3/4lb. She didn't say anything about cutting pills etc she gave me Nexgard & Heartgard. I am supposed to start tomorrow but will wait till Sunday as I will be home all day. I am nervous about change & the chewies- Casey just stopped taking his omega 3 chewie??? And Nexgard says must be chewed not swallowed whole. Yes 1st time Yorkie owner & he is 13 mos old. Need advice on cutting pills too? Thanks all that help!

Is it true that Nexgard must be chewed? I put it in cheese and Jackson usually swallows it. Ooops. Well it seems to be working for us. No ticks or fleas all summer and he's had 3 doses of it thus far. We also use Heartguard for heartworm.