Jordan
Our First Affen - Not Our Last | 
 | | Barked: Fri Nov 30, '12 1:52am PST |  | |  | | Fleas/ticks are not life-threatening, so I'm not going to go to extreme measures to prevent them. However, I know that Frontline is ineffective for many dogs. If I paid big bucks to prevent fleas, I would be pretty upset if the medication I purchased didn't work. There is actually a lawsuit pending (I think) regarding Frontline not working. It is a man named Simms and he is suiing the company that makes Frontline. I found this on Thomson Reuters, if anyone is interested in looking it up. I think the company that makes it is called Merial, but I'm not positive. In my experience, Frontline runs tons of commercials talking about how great and effective their product is. I used Frontline once on Lorrie, and she had fleas in about 4 days after applying it. Now, I'm not 100% sure I applied the medication correctly. I'm not going to bellyache over it, as this was almost two years ago and I use Sentry now. Although, I've heard of many, many complaints regarding Frontline and how ineffective it really is, especially in my line of work. Frontline says it is 100% effective, and I think that is a big fat lie! Their commercials about how it kills fleas really makes you want to go out and buy some. Now, it may get rid of some, but not all of the fleas. This makes me think it may not be killing the eggs, but just adult fleas. So, their claim that it stops the lifecycle wouldn't be true. Frontline is just trying to sell their product and are technically lying to consumers. Well, I guess they are expressing opinion in their commercials and on their product, which is not fact. Still, this is lying, to me. While I have limited knowledge about the law, I'm pretty sure this is illegal. Especially when they say their product is 100% effective. Well, they say "complete killing", nothing about 100% effective, but isn't that the same thing? Maybe I applied it to Lorrie wrong, I don't know. In my line of work (vet tech), I would say that it works for about 80% of dogs. They really should say that their product is 80% effective! LOL I'm not sure when they did their studies, but something has changed with the flea population since then. I hope they are better at killing lawsuits than they are fleas!  Our clinic still sells Frontline, though. Oddly enough, I haven't heard of it being ineffective on a single cat! But for me and Lorrie, it didn't work. |  |  | |  |
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