Is anyone using Nexgard, oral flea and tick preventative? Opinions anyone?

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

Our Vet recommended Nexgard for fleas. It's made by the makers of Front.ine, but is a beef flavored pill. Same coverage for fleas and ticks, for 30 days. Wanting to try as the topical presents a problem in the summer with dogs swimming several times a day. Anyone have and insight into this new product?

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I haven't heard of this product, but will be interested in hearing about others' experiences with it. 

[F, Calla & Luca]

Me too. I will try to read up on it too. The worst part of the topicals is the carrier the active chemicals are dissolved in and this would avoid that.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I did find this article on studies of active ingredient, afoxolaner: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304401714000934

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

Very technical reading, but it does say no dogs showed any side effects of the drug in this study. What makes me hesitiate is you can wash frontline off the dogs if they show any side effects, not possible to remove drug. Do you see anything that sends a red flag Karen?

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

To be honest Sue, I didn't read through it. I'm sticking with Frontline, as JD already gets too many oral meds. My biggest concern with this is the same one I have with any new drug, not enough use over a long time period or a large cross-sampling of dogs to really know what effects there may be over time

[F, Calla & Luca]

I agree in general. I like to see things on the market a while before starting anyone or dogs on them.

[Jennifer and Jack]

My mom is using it on Molly ....I am not sure how that happen but she left the vets office with it. She couldn't get plain old Frontline plus so she got that. I haven't even looked at it yet...so I will be following. Molly took it with no problems to date. I hope it turns out to be acceptable.

[Stephanie and Ragley]

I recently saw a commercial about this and it seems like a chewable would be better than a topical. I'll be interested to see if it is acceptable

[Kylee]

My vet recommended it to me too. As of right now iit kills fleas and only the American dog tick. According to my vet if it kills the American dog tick it should kill all ticks, but the other ticks are not listed on the pack it comes in. My vet also informed me they are changing their package to include the other ticks (deer tick...etc), but have not done so yet. I too called the company and they informed me that the tick actually has to bite the dog before it would die, it doesn't repel ticks or fleas from what I understand.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Same with the spot-ons like Frontline, they don't repel anything either.

[Kylee]

My cousin who works in a vet's office told me that Vectra 3d repels fleas and ticks. I have never used it, but she uses it in her animals.

[Adina P]

I would love a safe oral flea/tick preventative.  I usually go too long between Frontline applications (and don't apply in winter) because I so HATE putting it on.  I always put on gloves and try to do it at night so that the dogs have overnight to dry because it spooks me to put on basically a pesticide.  I can never get their hair to part in a nice long strip to get to the skin.  I end up with 100 short strips and hope it mostly got on the skin not the fur.  I hate, hate, hate it.