I give my dogs a special "cookie" quarterly which makes it so any flea that bites them becomes sterile and makes doggos no longer a vector.
Few things are worse than tiny almost invisible pests in your home or living on / biting loved ones!
My (terrific and marvelously overqualified) vet said OTC products are like pissing on a forest fire.
Requires an Rx, but can be obtained from your vet, Chewy, etc.
Think multiple ticks making little towers on top of one another between toes, after every walk. That's the kind of thing we had to contend with. Completely gone.
My exact experience, both for dog (the pill) and cats (the messy stuff smeared onto the skin at the back of the neck). Problem solved, period. No ticks, no fleas, and no noticeable side-effects save for about a day of apparent nausea for my dog now that he is very old.
Of course it's only a question of time before some blood-gorged tick somewhere will show up alive and healthy and thriving on Bravecto.
https://peto.com.au/bravecto-plus-flea-tick-and-worming-trea...
Having to pay for a vet rx for worming meds or bravecto etc is a fucking scam.
Now I have them on the monthly NexGard chewables (prescription from the vet). I havent seen a flea on or off of them in months.
But I also think our dog has a bad immune system. We pet sit a dog for 5-6 hours and it had a bit of a sneeze. We all just thought it was allergies because it was a young dog and the vet assumed it was allergies. Well a day or two later again and our dog has a sneeze, tons of green snot, and our vet suspected it was a bad infection, possibly pneumonia. She is only just about 2 years old and already seems to be getting any disease she gets near.