Monthly Archives: February 2011

Allergies are a frustrating area. If your dog is atopic, immunotherapy is currently the only potential “cure” with about 70% of dogs getting a satisfactory response to treatment. Unless you opt in for immunotherapy (desensitisation) then you will have to … Continue reading →

Capstar is a wonderful product and is probably the best product for itchy scratching dogs that are allergic to fleas………if it is used correctly. The product needs to be used every day. Capstar causes the insect (flea/mosquito) to become paralysed … Continue reading →

This has been a good product over the last decade. It has been superceded by better products in 2011 however. My bias against this product for the itchy scratching dog is that the chemical moves around the body in the … Continue reading →

I have always felt Revolution was a good product. It is perhaps the safest of all flea controls. I have never seen a side effect to Revolution in ten years of using it daily. We use it on cats and … Continue reading →

Advocate makes a lot of claims that quite frankly don’t stack up. When the product first came onto the market, a lot of my good clients that were using it religiously every month as instructed ound that their dogs were … Continue reading →

Comfortis is a new product that has come out in the last two years. It is an outstanding product that can be relied upon to give fast results. It starts working in 30 minutes with a 100% kill within 4 … Continue reading →