Yeah I started both mine on it soon after I got my Banfield job (first time I heard about it was at one of our lunch and learns). We've had 6 hw positive patients in the last two months and one was a cat.
I wonder why Elanco said there's no test/tx?
There's no tx. And I believe you're supposed to verify with an antibody test after doing the antigen (snap) test. But we found our hw positive cat patient with a felv/fiv/hw snap test.
Snap and confirm with antibody test. Elanco doesn't make it, so they may not know much about it.
Thanks so much guys! I'll have to find a source! I believe I can get free Bayer products, so Advantage Multi it is!
Advantage Multi, Revolution (Zoetis), and heartgard feline (Merial) are the ones I recommend. You can also get them compounded
My orange cat does vomit occasionally....99% of the time it's because he ate timothy hay or had a stuck poop and turned around and got a face full of it (yes, his own poop makes him sick).
Revolution for my kittehs.
Yeah, FL can outdo most average control. Rural here can be a problem, but not as much in town.
Yep. I use free topicals I have for the one that takes the chews (cheristin and activyl are what I have). Frontline wants to give me their product but it literally doesn't work here. They like to claim it still works because resistance hasn't been proven. But the comparable efficacy is like 50%. And one of the major flea guys does say it's likely resistance. just can't prove it yet.
Lol...we were seeing some impressive resistance in Michigan, even during some winters. One client was seriously at his wit's end. He said his dog looks like a beehive on Frontline (with all of the crawling fleas
) and his house was infested. Merial wanted to stop paying for exterminators because they insisted he was doing something wrong.
Yeah, it really just makes sense. I think he's at Kansas. He comes to the major city near me every summer to test new products.
Bayer - I like Advantage multi but take a look at their customer service one day. we had a client's cat react to the product. They returned the unused doses and we refunded. We called bayer to report and their rep told us that they will only replace the 1 vial. But it's been in a client's home. There's no way I'm going to resell the product to someone else when I can't guarantee anything. They do everything on a case by case basis.
Our area rep said Nexguard came about because there was a demand for a flea product that seemed less 'chemical' to consumers. She also said "and you can use it with Frontline simultaneously for extra protection!" I don't think she realized it, but she kind of hinted there that you might want to be doing something like that with Frontline.
meh. They're still chemicals (GABA specific I believe). I know Bravecto (similar compound) only affects insects and mites/ticks. I would just drop the frontline, honestly.
it's going to happen soon. Well, not an oral for cats. Because cats like to be special little snowflakes and no 2 cats like the same things. But probably topical.
Oh definitely. But she was referring to owners smelling Frontline, getting it on their hands, etc. I've gotten that stuff (and Vectra) on my hands and it's gross. You can taste it within a few minutes.
I haven't heard these, but there was an instance where it was being treated similar to Trifexis. In the owners were blaming it when it wasn't related.
So several people think because it's "such a high dose" compared to Nexgard, it's something to be concerned by. And Merial likes to tell people it causes birth defects. There need to be more studies on that area, but there was no statistical difference when compared to birth defects of other litters by those dams. But still, that's easy to avoid. Don't give it to pregnant bitches. The mechanism of action would seem to limit the potential for truly bad side effects. So if it does cause an issue, I'd be interested in *how* it does that.
Damn cats!
Some interesting things are coming in the not too distant future.Damn cats!
I have mine on Revolution right now because that's the only hw prevention I can get for them at work.
Yeah, I don't buy it either. I really like the product. It definitely helps with flea compliance.
We've had multiple clients that think Trifexis is for fleas, ticks, and heartworms. No, sorry, that's not what the "tri" means...
I caught one of my techs saying it the other day and corrected her.
Uh, it takes two seconds to read the packaging...I caught one of my techs saying it the other day and corrected her.
Everybody forgets about the intestinal parasites
I don't!Everybody forgets about the intestinal parasites
Probably do some short term crating while there are people home and around and rewarding for calming down and being quiet. Starting with like 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour etc with people around and then do the short trips outside the door. Probably a long route, but the other option I would think of would be anti-barking devices which, depending on why the dog is barking, may just exacerbate the problems.
My roommate's only had him for about a week, so it could just be general anxiety. He's silent otherwise, doesn't even play bark. We'll have to try the intervals thing, but apparently there isn't even a 5 minute period where he isn't barking while we're gone. When she crates him and I'm home, I have to let him out because he doesn't. stop. barking.
Even if there's just a couple seconds where he stops barking, try to reward him then. If you continue to let him out when he barks, it'll become a learned behavior (bark=someone lets me out) and it'll get harder to train him out of it. You could also try teaching him to bark on command, which will facilitate teaching a "quiet" command.
Unfortunately, it no longer matters. She snuck the dog in the first place and the noise complaints went to the landlord and he got himself evicted
He also broke out of her crate during our midterm and destroyed her room. It's sad...he's such a good dog, just has separation issues. She doesn't want to take him back to the shelter, but idk what another option would be. Thanks for the help, guys.
Aww
Aw man, poor pupUnfortunately, it no longer matters. She snuck the dog in the first place and the noise complaints went to the landlord and he got himself evicted
Unfortunately, it no longer matters. She snuck the dog in the first place and the noise complaints went to the landlord and he got himself evicted
We spent 6 months on a Great Pyranees. We were told she was crate trained, house broken and great with horses.
Aw man, poor pup
Yeah I feel bad for him and my roomie. We just can't be there for the dog all day. It sucks because when she went to pick him out, he was the only dog that was calm as can be in a room full of kenneled dogs. No barking whatsoever, that's why she picked him. Her decision is to either give him up completely or try to find someone to 'foster' him until the summer when she'll have time to at least try to work with him and give him another shot. We're moving into a house next year, so he'd be happier there anyways if that's the case. I just feel so bad because I get the whole anxiety thing.
