How ling until Advantix is dry? Ive read that it can stain furniture and carpets and wooden floor varnish.... how long afyer application is that true? Is it best to do at night so that the pupoy can only stain his own bed? If it rubs off on his bed though, and he licks it off his bed is that dangerous? Or is it better to do in the daytime to watch out for adverse effects? What about petting - are you supposed to not pet your dog for a certain amount of time agter applying or is it ok? Thanks
I tend to put it on before walks. Having had it melt the top layer of the leather on one of my sofas, I now restrict access to furniture for at least an hour after applying. That seems to be fine. Obviously, you're not going to be walking a young puppy for that amount of time. In all honesty, I didn't use Advantix with my latest puppy until I knew she was going to be exposed to ticks. Do you have ticks where you are? We have loads of them in Spain, but none in Andorra, so I didn't use the Advantix until we were coming here, and at seven months she was old enough for being outside for longer then. So I just took her outside and played with her for an hour when it went on. If you get it right on the skin, you get less seepage, but that can be difficult with a wriggly puppy! I try to avoid stroking on their backs after applying, because I don't want it on my hands.
We live in a very high tick area. All adults and childten check themselves at least nightly before bed. We check ourselves several times in the day even coming in from our own garden. We are very late at treating our dog which is very irresponsible. It just took us some time to researvh an effective treatment that balanced side effects.
My dog shook after I put some on once, and a few hours later I noticed that it had stripped and bubbled the paint off the skirting boards in the hallway! It’s remarkable it doesn’t seem to damage or irritate their skin at all, god knows how.
I haven't used Advantix, but another spot-on preparation, and I found Lilly's fur was "greasy" from it for a couple of days afterwards. This worried me, not only from the transfer to surfaces and human hands, but also the environmental aspects (Lilly is a water-lover) and also I was worried about how much was actually getting to her skin and being absorbed. I admit to all those reasons being what persuaded me to the oral preparations, and I, personally, am much happier with this, but do worry a bit about other people's experiences of adverse reactions, particularly seizures, so hard to recommend this to new users.
It doesn't irritate the dogs' skin at all. Deet products, that have been tested and deemed perfectly safe to use on humans, can melt plastic. The same can be said of plenty of essential oils. We can't leap to conclusions that something is inherently bad because of a chemical reaction it has with something completely different to what we're made of My lot used to end up with dinosaur-like spikes along their backs for a couple of days after use but I've found if I'm more careful applying it just to the skin, I get that far less. I don't let mine swim for at least 24 hours after application. It's horses for courses; I was quite happy to use Bravecto, but it doesn't repel ticks and I have to have something that does because of how bad the ticks are here at this time of year. Luckily, it will be too hot for them soon, yay!
I use advantix on Finn. It is a greasy spot for a couple of days. We used it for all our dogs! When the children were young we advised them not to pet the dog for 2 days. Substance in advantix is fipronil, not long ago in the news here because chicken farms had used it to clean the stables and therefore fipronil came into the Dutch eggs. Thousands of chickens were killed because of it.....It was a bit hypocrite for we all use this on our pets, dog as well on cats. I ate the eggs, nothing wrong with them. With this in mind I asked myself if I would have give a contaminated egg to one of my grandchildren...? I don’t think so....perhaps I am a little hypocrite myself.......
Once I found them, have never looked back from Seresto collars. In my experience they have never caused a problem and have always been 100% effective against fleas and ticks. Ok a bit expensive to start with, but last around 7 - 8 months, so are really a good buy - and in my experience, big time effective.
I saw them when I was in the pet store last week. I never gave them a second glance and assumed they wouldnt work - so just looked them up after reading your post and turns out they are also made by Bayer and is the same ingredient as in Advantix. I should have looked it up first ugh!!! I will give the Advantix a try tonight and if we dont like it, think about the collar for the rest of the summer. Cost wise they are cheaper, actually! 4 months of Advantix was 30€. Ine 8 month collar is 46€ so the price alone is worth it. I am just worried my dog isnt going to be thrilled with the collar idea....but I suppose like everything else he will adapt!!
This is off topic but related if thats ok.... oir friends also got a lab puppy about the same time we did. They got their pup when she was already 16wo. She told me she puts drops of oil in her dog's food as a tick prevention but she isnt sure what the oil is - just that her breeder gave it to her. Anyone know what kind of oil that might be?
Well, the leather isn't like our live skin, is it? It's cured and treated to make it stain-resistant, durable and shiny. It was the shiny surface layer that was removed. I'm not a fan of the collars, although they are very effective and the bonus is they can (and should) be removed for swimming. But I don't like leaving collars on my dogs all day, and my lot tend to grab at each other's necks when playing, too; I don't like the idea of them having the collars in their mouths.
