Frontline Plus Spray For Dogs

Not As Good As It Used To Flea – Have used Frontline spray for years on both cats and dogs. We also used it at a pet shop I worked at 25 years ago. But have noticed a change in the product ~ A change in smell even. Back in the day if ya got any in a small cut on your hand, it would sting like buggery. Don’t notice anything like that now. Years ago once applied you would see fleas literally falling off kittens that came in to work.

But now I’ve wasted money twice on frontline, first time giving it the benefit of the doubt. Purchased frontline spray from Animates, And still our dog and cat are scratching with them. Also had an issue with the setting for spray or stream not setting correctly.

Of course our ‘environment’ is treated, flea bombing the house regularly. But they have to say that to cover their bums.

So what’s going on? If fleas have become immune to it, why has the frontline formula lowered in strength?

Frontline spray User – I'm dog brdr ,of33yrs. User of frontline for about twenty years. Happily applied as, no fleas was result, 100% satisfied. For about 18yrs. The past 2 yrs this product has changed, its efficacy in applying.. I used for 18yrs. By a small spray on top of shoulder and near tail base, I breed long coats and short coats, coverage worked same on types. Dogs complete surface coverage, and scratch free dogs, happy. During 2020/2021, the effectiveness no longer does cover dog, it killed only fleas wetted , vet recommended I saturate the dog by amount recommended on label, it was too much, when I did dog fainted!!, I washed dog to alleviate reaction. The efficacy used has been taken out of product, yet not reflected in cost. Vet only product, was told use another product. I spent four hundred dollars in less than 12months. Wasted as doesn't kill fleas.

Useless for paralysis ticks – Expensive, nozzle does not work properly. Dog's skin reacted to the spray and it smells terrible! To crown it all, it did not work. Our dog still had a $2000+ vet hospital bill and nearly died while using this product when a paralysis tick latched onto him. We now use the Preventic collars which work very well for our Bichon.

Great product that does what it says – My 8 week old pup picked up lots of larval stage ticks in the garden. We live in a paralysis tick area so I was very worried about him. There were too many for me to try and tweezer off in one go so off to the vets. This is what he told me to use. Within 30 mins lots of dead ticks were falling off. After a couple of hours I was easily able to scrape others off his skin as they were all dead. I am waiting for the rest to fall off but it was great to see there is a product that can kill the ticks on a young pup after they've already attached. Kills ticks immediately, can be used on pups from 2 days old, acts as a preventative for paralysis ticks for 3 weeks Smells very pungent (chemical smell), can be expensive