when will you stop administering flea protection to your dog this year? (If you don't use flea protection year-round)

If you don't use flea protection for your dog year-round, when will you stop administering it this year?

Do you wait until temps are below freezing?

I'm nervous to apply the Advantix after that post about adverse reactions (which I then did some research into). I need more time to consider alternate protection.

TIA

Re: when will you stop administering flea protection to your dog this year? (If you don't use flea protection year-round)

I am going to stop during the winter months this year, or at least spread it out more like every 2 mths. But it HAS to be freezing out, so maybe late Dec-Feb.

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Re: when will you stop administering flea protection to your dog this year? (If you don't use flea protection year-round)

November is usually the last month I apply it.

when will you stop administering flea protection to your dog this year? (If you don't use flea protection year-round)

Yeah, we were using Frontline and for some reason, we switched.....and I can't remember why now.
I have 6-week old twins so my brain isn't working at full capacity! Lol
I'd never heard of probs w/Advantix til that other post.

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Re: when will you stop administering flea protection to your dog this year? (If you don't use flea protection year-round)

In what I read on the EPA website, the majority of animals that had issues with treatments were small dogs. I don't remember what the figure was but I want to say under 25 pounds?

Not sure how large your dog is but I'd probably not use Advantix at all, and go for Frontline. I provide flea and tick prevention year round because it only takes a day of warm temperatures for those little buggers to become a problem again. I'd rather not have to worry, especially with the warmer winters we've had of late.

Re: when will you stop administering flea protection to your dog this year? (If you don't use flea protection year-round)

We use Revolution on our dog from April - October and have for the 10 years we have had him and we have never had a problem with fleas/ticks. The only downside is that in April, you need the vet to do a heartworm test because of the chance he got heartworm during the months he was off of it. If you keep them on a preventitive all year round, you dont need this test done.

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