I've used it for a year. After I've pulled 3 engorged ticks off from the beginning of this year, I tossed it.
At the most recent visit with the vet she suggested the Seresto collars for my dogs. She knows I have issues with the topical treatments, especially because I have dogs and cats and some are not recommended in households with cats, and that I am on a very limited budget. Gaea is a very fearful dog and cowers in her crate if she hears anything that resembles the package that the topical treatments are in. They have the rebates for the Seresto collars and it sounds like a great deal. I have a cat with flea allergy dermatitis, and the cats never go outside, but she feels if I treat the dogs, the cats would benefit from it. My greatest concern is Gaea biting Odin's collar when they are playing, but the vet feels a quick bite on the collar wouldn't be an issue, only if she chewed it off of him, which she used to do when she was younger, but has outgrown this habit. Has anyone else used it? Is the collar effective? We have been avoiding a lot of the places we used to go to play because they haven't been treated, but I really want to bring them swimming to help with Odin's weight loss. I know that the collars efficacy will be reduced if they swim daily, but I don't mind that as much as I would them coming home with ticks and fleas.
I've used it for a year. After I've pulled 3 engorged ticks off from the beginning of this year, I tossed it.
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Was it at the end of the efficacy time of the collar? I know the paperwork says that if they swim a lot the efficacy goes from 8 months to 5 months.
No, I bought it in January and by the end of April I had found three engorged ticks. It wasn't even 4 months. Also, I always take it off before I let my dog into water. The substances on these collars are toxic for fish too.
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tennysonlab (07-11-2014)
I hate topicals too, but I'd feel safer using Frontline. I've ready some nasty reviews of what these collars can do to the necks of some dogs, so IMO they are not a "safer" product. And if a dog would chew and swallow a piece off, it will continue to release the repellant. Frontline is not toxic to cats if you are concerned about that. I take my dogs to HEAVY tick areas, and Frontline has been working well for us this year. It does not repel ticks, which is fine with me. I don't feel comfortable using a product like Advantix that does claim to repel. So my dogs still have ticks crawling on them after hiking. I pick off the ones I see, and the ones that do bite die VERY quickly.
tennysonlab (07-11-2014)
I like the Seresto collars. They work well for us.
As for the rebates make sure they are purchased from a vet. My rebate was denied due to the receipt not from a vet.
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Thanks for everyone's input. I live in an area with a lot of ticks, fleas and mosquitoes and, while they are on heartworm preventatives, there are other diseases carried by mosquitoes, which is why I was hoping this might be an alternative. Hmm, I am still unsure of what to use. My cats are very sensitive to the topical treatments (they always lose their hair) and I was hoping just to treat the dogs. Ugh. I wish we didn't have ticks and the like. CNY has a new disease that is carried by ticks so I worry extra about that. We have found ticks on Gaea and Odin in the past, but Gaea was the only one that they bit, as she is a chocolate lab and they are much harder to see on her than Odin. She has skin tags which make it harder to run my fingers through her coat; I get nervous and Gaea feeds off of that and panics herself. Even if I am calm (like today when I had to clean and bandage both of her back paws that she tore up on the pavement playing), she doesn't like being brushed or groomed in any way and hides in her crate. She absolutely hates the topical treatments and will hide for a day in her crate if they are applied to her skin/coat.
As long as I know, Seresto doesn't repel mosquitoes.
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tennysonlab (07-12-2014)
Boo, I was hoping it would repel mosquitoes as well. We live in an area with EEE and it has been detected in dogs and a little girl. I have more research to do.
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