what kind of flea/tick prevention can you use on a puppy?
But in any event, now I'm just worried about how to prevent it from happening again, or from they getting fleas. They spend a lot of time outdoors because we allow them free access though the doggy door(except at night so far) into their fenced in yard. They love it out there, so I really hope the only answer isn't only to limit their time outdoors. I had a dog a while ago who we used frontline on, and I swear by it ever since. We never saw one flea or tick on the dog. Is there any dose of any flea/tick medicine that is ok for a 2 month old puppy? |
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| When I took my Dodger to the vet for his first check-up at 9 weeks they used a similar product to Frontline called Revolution. The reason our vet used that instead was because we suspected Dodger had mites and Revolution also protects against mites in addition to fleas and ticks. |
| There is also frontline spray that good for puppies,it worked on mine |
| Hey, where you are it is probably tick season most of the year, 10 months or more.
This year we had a really really good year for lack of ticks! I remember one year we pulled maybe 500 ticks off of Jake. For a while, after every single walk we'd pick up 1, 3, even 5 ticks. It was incredible. There are things you can do to help prevent tick infestation in/around your yard, so you can prevent them from getting on your puppy, or you having to take them off. You can have a 3 foot wood chip barrier around your yard. This will prevent most (if not all) of them from coming in on their own. I've seen something where you can put down mice feeders (No, really!) that daub the mice with insecticide as they pass through the feeder. There is a lyme vaccination (I don't know about age appropriateness) but my vet is not a big fan since after the vaccine he says that the lyme test will always be positive, and you can't then tell if the dog has been exposed. I don't know about that, so I have no real opinion about it. Finally, don't worry! While most tick species can and do carry all sorts of diseases, not all individual ticks do! Our dogs have had many many ticks engorge over the years. Just carefully remove them and put them into a vial of running alcohol. We use an old medicine pill container (y'know, with the child proof twist off top?) half filled with alcohol. The ticks that carry Lyme disease are the mostly the smallest of the ticks. Check out this page here on oes.org: Tick Identification |
| I would just ask the vet what he or she recommends for such a young pup. It's definitely not safe to experiment on little ones. As a quick aside, have they had their last set of shots yet? I'd definitely limit outside time until they do. |
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