Flea Pest Control - Free How To Tips

Advantage and Frontline
Advantage and Frontline Top Spot are supplied in a little plastic squeeze tubes. Select the size that matches your pet's weight and apply the entire contents directly onto the skin, once a month.

Reasons to choose Advantage instead of Frontline
Advantage is easy. The packaging is easy to use, and Advantage comes with a little picture showing exactly where to apply it.

It can be used any time. You can bathe your dog and apply Advantage a few hours later.

Using both products according to label instructions, Advantage is slightly cheaper.

Reasons to choose Frontline instead of Advantage
Frontline lasts longer. For flea control in dogs, it's probably good for three months. For cats, two months. When the manufacturer began recommending it for tick control, they changed their recommendation from every three months to every month.

Used monthly, Frontline does an acceptable job of tick control. We have had clients complain that it doesn't work and others sing its praises. If you have a serious tick problem, Preventic Collars (dogs only) may work better. Preventic collars make the ticks fall off before they die. With Frontline, ticks usually stay attached and must be removed individually.

Frontline doesn't wash off as easily as Advantage. Both products withstand occasional swimming and light bathing, but Frontline stands up to frequent swimming and even a serious bath now and then.

If used every two months, which is adequate for flea control, Frontline is less expensive.

With Frontline, keep these things in mind:
Do not bathe your dog three days before or three days after applying Frontline Top Spot.

Your veterinarian should give you the the little extra sheet that shows where to apply Frontline and explains how to deal with the somewhat awkward packaging.

Frontline spray
Frontline Spray works the same as Frontline Top Spot, but is not quite so easy to use, since it must be sprayed all over the body. For cats and small dogs, Frontline spray is much less expensive than Frontline Top Spot and just as effective.