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willyAirstream
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WAS- Frontline in MulegeNOW chickens
Anyone know where I can buy Frontline in Mulege? ( c-ck fighting guy doesn't have it) Or anyone have any to spare? My dog and a rescued puppy have
ticks to the max.
[Edited on 7-13-2011 by willyAirstream]
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The vet in Sta. Rosalia had 3 similar products, plus collars a couple of weeks ago.
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Here are a few home remedies you could try.
Vinegar
Vinegar has a smell and taste that ticks cannot stand, making it the perfect tick repellent. In a spray bottle, mix a solution of 2 cups water and 1
cup white vinegar or apple cider vinegar (either will work). Add in a few drops of your favorite essential oil for scent, then spray onto pets,
clothing, skin, and even on the lawn. This will safely repel ticks without harming your family or home.
Citrus
Citrus scents also ward off ticks, and a citrus repellent can be easily made for just a few dollars. Bring 3 cups of water to a boil, then add a few
sliced citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits--any combination will do). Let boil for one minute, then simmer on low heat for an hour.
Take out the sliced fruits, and pour the remaining mixture through a strainer. Pour into a spray bottle, and spray directly onto clothing, pets and
lawn. The acidic scent of citrus fruits work to repel both ticks and fleas, keeping your family free of these blood-sucking insects.
Peppermint
Peppermint also repels ticks and fleas, and a spray-on repellent can be made for just a few dollars. In a spray bottle, add 2 cups water and 20 drops
of peppermint essential oil. Spray onto clothing, pets and around the lawn to keep ticks and fleas at bay. Alternately, crush a few peppermints and
sprinkle throughout the lawn, or brew a pot of peppermint tea, strain into a spray bottle and use this as a spray-on repellent as well.
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If the vet in Sta Rosalia has Revolucion, go for it. also helps with heart worms.
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I just bought a product like frontline at the vet in GN for ticks & fleas called something like Advantage or somepun...120 pesos
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we use revolution...
here in mulege
no ticks
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willyAirstream
Anyone know where I can buy Frontline in Mulege? ( c-ck fighting guy doesn't have it) Or anyone have any to spare? My dog and a rescued puppy have
ticks to the max. |
If you can get Frontline, try to get the Frontline Plus---it is better. And our vet told us that for the fleas, once every three months would be
enough, but for ticks, once a month.
I hope you can get something for those ticks because they can carry such nasty diseases!
I have never heard of Revolution, but it sounds like a good one.
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willyAirstream
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Thanks for the fast response everyone!, I didn't know there is a vet in Santa Rosalia. I'll go there asap and try one of Divers remedies tonight. Can
someone tell me where the vet is located?
a 3 dog thank you!
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Doctors Cota, Father & Son, are on the last down street in SR and a bit above the funeral place on the opposite side of the street. They have/ had
a groomer and that may a way to go.
615-152-1134 or 615-155-59194 ( I think)
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Advantix????
| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
I just bought a product like frontline at the vet in GN for ticks & fleas called something like Advantage or somepun...120 pesos
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http://tinyurl.com/3bvker7
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Amigo, buy some Boric Acid/powder, white powder, to spread around your property!! Revolution is the total project---fleas, ticks, heartworm! Let
know if I can bring you some as I'm passing thru in a couple weeks. You must clean the area your dogs are in!! Daily swims in the Ocean also help.
Thanks for giving me a heads up as I avoided a big problem there when headin south two weeks ago! Do Your best; stay Lubricated-Hydrated. Tio
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Russ
Doctors Cota, Father & Son, are on the last down street in SR and a bit above the funeral place on the opposite side of the street. They have/ had
a groomer and that may a way to go.
615-152-1134 or 615-155-59194 ( I think) |
Dr. Manuel Cota, the son, has a practice on Avenida Sarabia and
Calle 7. Its in a blue house on the right hand side of the one-way street, just past the opposite corner appliance store (both signed).
The easiest way to get there is to come into town on the main drag, and turn left as soon as possible past Bancomer (2 cross-streets, Calle 9 I
think). When you've made that turn go three cross-roads and turn left again onto Sarabia (which isn't signed I think). You should see the electronics
store on your left (start looking for parking now) as Dr. Cota's business is on the right in about a half-block.
His personal cellphone is 044-615-155-9194.
He's ok with receiving calls on his cell, and he'll make an effort to speak English.
His office assistant and groomer is named Sonya. She doesn't speak English.
His dad no longer is in practice with him.
Remember, office is closed for the siesta which is when he does surgery.
btw, Hugo the guy at the Mulege grain store and chicken center may have something comparable.
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Tried them all, Revolution best by a mile
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If your dogs have had a lot of ticks, you should have them tested for Ehrlichiosis, they can carry the disease for a long time before it manifests and
it can become chronic. It is very common in Baja.
http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/glossaryterms/a/CW-Ehrlichio...
[Edited on 7-10-2011 by monoloco]
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For those of you near a Walmart
We have five dogs here on the farm .....and going to the poor house with expenditures of meds! FYI:
Sams club and Walmart are offering Pet Armor Plus flea and tick preventive and claim it is the same as Frontline Plus, just less expensive.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Pet-Armor-Plus-45-88lb-3ct/1599215...
c/c from www.goldenretrieverforum.com
I'm a drug rep for an Animal Health company. It is the generic of Frontline Plus. You need only look at the active ingredients on the packaging to
know. Merial patent for Frontline and Frontline Plus expired in March so there will be over 30 generics hitting the market.
It is just as safe and effective in the generic form. I should say I don't work for any of the companies in question. I have a degree in An. Science
and was a veterinary technician prior. The main concern when a parasiticide goes generic like this is that a patent lasts 10 to 15 years. That being
said, insects become resistant to them just like bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Long before the patent ran out, we were starting to hear
about problems with resistance in Frontline Plus, especially in endemic areas with lots of fleas and ticks. The product just isn't working as well as
it used to.
I know that many people think there vet is only out to make money off of them, but there is a very good reason to go to your veterinarian for these
things. They are up on the studies about resistance and what works best in your region. The other main reason is that you totally lose your guarantee
of efficacy if you don't buy from a vet. All the major companies guarantee money back plus the cost of treatment if their product fails. And that
isn't just for heartworm meds, ticks cause lyme disease, fleas cause anemia and tapeworms, and so many more.
I'd recommend a switch to a new product, with new ingredients, to avoid resistance problems. Vectra seems to be the big one because it has quick kill
times and offers a form with permethrin or without. Permethin can bother some sensitive skin animals, so those can use Vectra, rather than Vectra 3D.
Vectra 3D has the permethrin and Vectra does not.
There are others out there, like the Scalibor collar by Intervet/Schering-Plough. I never believed in these things until a "real" company came out
with this one. I literally used to cut these off of patients in the clinic, put them in a baggie, and hand the cheap little pet store "rip off" to the
client with a package of Frontline. But this has serious science behind it, and my hunting Golden wears just it as a sole flea and tick prevention.
Two months, no fleas or ticks. I'm a believer.
On that, if your vet continues to do and use and prescribe the same thing for 20 years, that's not consistency, its a lack of continuing education and
ability to change. we're putting pacemakers in our dogs these days...
Hope this helps.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Thanks again to all. I sprayed them with vinegar on Sat. and they didn't acquire anymore ticks! I was pulling off 50! ( and dropping them in alcohol)
now only 3 or 4. May have to name the abandoned puppy "Pickle". I was spraying the property weekly, but now doing it daily till problem is solved.
Need to spray the entire river road  Tio I'll take you up on your offer on your
next trip norte. Still looking for boric acid, but I found AdvanTix (178 p) at the chicken/grain/dog food tienda, Hugo was there this time and he
found a box that the kids, his clerks, hadn't seen. I'll get to the vet asap and have them checked. ( thanks for the detailed directions!)
Mousse , the lab, is happy to be swimming at the beach instead of walking along the river, being a tick magnet.
Thanks again!!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willyAirstream
Thanks again to all. I sprayed them with vinegar on Sat. and they didn't acquire anymore ticks! I was pulling off 50! ( and dropping them in alcohol)
now only 3 or 4. May have to name the abandoned puppy "Pickle". I was spraying the property weekly, but now doing it daily till problem is solved.
Need to spray the entire river road Tio I'll take you up on your offer on your
next trip norte. Still looking for boric acid, but I found AdvanTix (178 p) at the chicken/grain/dog food tienda, Hugo was there this time and he
found a box that the kids, his clerks, hadn't seen. I'll get to the vet asap and have them checked. ( thanks for the detailed directions!)
Mousse , the lab, is happy to be swimming at the beach instead of walking along the river, being a tick magnet.
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Not sure if this will work down there for you......we release all of our chickens here on the farm each day from 5 to 8. They clean up anything and
every thing that has legs or wings!
Can you have chickens there....all they require is a fenced coop (from night time predators).
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Any more info on the Revolucion ??
Is it internal or dermal ? Approx cost ?? Sounds good. I'm using Comfortis on Mona and Jackson, but can afford it anymore.. damn expensive!
I used chickens while living in Lemon Grove, may try to get some Rhode Island Reds down after I make a dog pen behind my soon to be new casa !
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| Quote: | Originally posted by surfdoc
Any more info on the Revolucion ??
Is it internal or dermal ? Approx cost ?? Sounds good. I'm using Comfortis on Mona and Jackson, but can afford it anymore.. damn expensive!
I used chickens while living in Lemon Grove, may try to get some Rhode Island Reds down after I make a dog pen behind my soon to be new casa !
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Now you know...leave those chickens in that coop fro 3 weeks...do not release. They learn that it's home. Then release...they will come back on their
own own ...about a half hour before sunset :-) Very cool.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Two things...
1) Just reread Airstreams' post about getting his dogs checked for ehrlichosis.
I don't believe that can be done in Santa Rosalia by Dr. Cota as he has no laboratory, but would treat an animal that came in with suspect symptoms
which would include lethargy, weight loss, excessive bleeding. Treatment is about 3 weeks on Doxycycline. Better to wait until you return north to
your regular vet or find a clinic in La Paz or Ensenada that has lab & ex-ray capabilities if you want to check on it now. The local vets do know
the symptoms and can treat it empirically; the downside is you have to wait for symptoms to appear. The upside is that dogs that are otherwise in good
health seem to resist the infection. Hope this helps a bit.
2) Secondly (and I'm hijackin' thread here) its about chickens.
We're thinking of getting a flock down here when we get the land secured.
Question: after habituating them to the henhouse like McFez says will they be inclined to fly when I turn 'em loose in the daytime? I think not, but
we're not certain they won't go over the wall and move in with the neighbors.
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