Tick/flea/worm/heartworm Protocols/advice Nth Nsw

[*kirty*]

A friend of mine is moving from Victoria to coastal Northern NSW. We have been looking into the best regimes to prevent fleas and ticks, plus worms and heartworm. Can anyone tell me what they use? Her dog is a 30kg Lab x and my friend is an underpaid vet nurse lol. Thanks!

[Lucky-Dog]

We use for Heartworm = Panoramis

Panoramis covers the Heartworm and Fleas.

We only use Frontline Spray which covers for Fleas and Ticks. ( We use this rarely ) It is expensive but very effective for it's use.

We use worm tablets from our Vets for worms that Panoramis will not cover.

We live on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

Hope this helps. :)

[DeltaCharlie]

We use scalibor collars for ticks and interceptor for worms/heartworm. Although through summer the fleas were bad so we switched the interceptor for advocate to get on top of the little buggers. In future we will probably use sentinel instead (same as interceptor but also does fleas). The advocate was the better choice at the time though given how bad our flea problem became, we were told sentinel is ok for prevention but advocate better for treating an existing problem.

The scalibor collars work out very cost effective and have worked brilliantly for us. We get them for about $15 a collar and it lasts 3 months. Our dogs swim regularly and we just remove it for the duration of the swim and then pop it back on. Have never had an issue doing this (except remembering to put 13 collars back on LOL, sometimes we lose count).