Why I will no longer be using Frontline on my dogs...

[L.M.]

I had to share this.  I put Frontline on Seamus the other day.  He was sleepy so after I applied it, he lay down on my hard wood floors.  As he did so I remember thinking to myself, I hope it doesn't stain my walls (he tends to lean a bit on my walls when he lays).  Well, today, I noticed some kind of weird stain on my hard wood floor (luckily they are not new) in exactly the same spot where Seamus was sleeping the other day.  The Frontline ate entirely through the varnish on my hard wood floors!!!! ENTIRELY!  It stripped it down to the wood....I'm not exaggerating.  

Soooo I will be saving myself some money and will not be putting this chemical on my dogs anymore...if it does that to wood, what does it do to them?!  

Do people nowadays just not use these flea/tick preventatives?? I never used them on my pug years ago and she was fine.  My dogs get the Lyme vaccine and their hair is kept short, so I'm not super worried about fleas.....What are your thoughts on not using this stuff?  Especially after hearing this?  

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

I am going to continue to use some form of tick /  flea prevention as Lyme Disease really makes me nervous and fleas make me nuts!!! The medications have been around for a very long time, and other than some self limiting reactions, I am not aware of any long term or deadly harmful side effects to our dogs. There may be some information to that effect but I am not aware.

 As for it eating through the wood floor, there are many things we put on our bodies that would eat through wood. Heck, some of my essential oils have eaten through the top of my wood night stand. Nail polish remover eats through everything. These are just a few.  

Not to dismiss the fact that putting chemicals on anybody or any dog is the preferred method of taking care of ourselves or them, but sometimes the alternatives to not using these chemicals is worse.  There is a risk to benefit ratio to everything.