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K9 Advantix is a once-a-month topical tick, mosquito and flea treatment for dogs and puppies 7 weeks of age and older. It contains imidacloprid and permethrin. It also remains effective after swimming or bathing. This is the ultimate protection for your dog! Each packet contains 4 applications providing 4 months of protection.
Customer Review: Beyond wonderful for fleas, and NIH says the same for ticks!
Our two dogs became infested with fleas a couple years ago. We tried a ton of different medications, and were about to 'bomb' the house when our vet recommended K9 Advantix. Within one week there were NO fleas, not on the dogs, not in the house. Before using K9 Advantix, I'd sit at night picking fleas off our one poodle, and we were desperate for a solution. This is a fabulous product. As we didn't have experience with ticks or mosquitos when using this product, I can't comment on them, but for fleas, this is the best. I was told by a salesperson at Petsmart that Advantix has a repellant in it besides something to kill the fleas, and Frontline, its main competitor, has only a flea killer, which won't work until the flea bites the dog. In addition, I found a review by the NIH regarding the two medications for ticks and I quote an excerpt from the abstract: "The number of live ticks on the control dogs ranged from a geo. mean of 12.0 to 29.5 ticks per dog during the study. Percent efficacy for the K9 Advantix group ranged from 84.0 to 98.5 % between test days 3 and 35. Percent efficacy for the Frontline Plus group ranged from -28.1 to 56.8% during the corresponding period." You can find this study report yourself by googling as shown with the quotes: "K9 Advantix vs Frontline". Sounds pretty definitive to me. We're sticking with Advantix.
Customer Review: Does not work on ticks
K9 Advantix does not kill or repel ticks. I have never written a review before for any product, however I have such a negative opinion of this product that I feel compelled to write the review. I can't comment on whether this product works for fleas, as my dog has never had fleas. However after visiting Cape Cod two times this summer, my dog has returned with ticks both times. The last time, after visiting Cape Cod for 3 days, we found 10 live ticks attached to my dog. Yes, we are following the instructions, and no, we do not bathe our dog within 48 hours of applying the product. In fact, we only bathe our dog once per month and actually have been applying this product every 3-4 weeks just to be safe. My only answer to those reviewers who write their dog has never had ticks is that maybe their dogs do not live in an area with many ticks. My dog has never had ticks either, until we visited a place with many ticks, which is when we discovered that K9 Advantix just does not work on ticks, period.


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