Seresto Collar

[susanmccain]

Question about the collar...which size did buy for the Shelties? (sm or lg?)

 

[Mom2Melli]

Can you hang tags from them? I have one more dose of K9 Advantix and I am seriously considering this collar. I can't stand putting the topical on and watching the dogs clearly HATE it like it burns. That's just not cool watching this month after month and year after year. Also, the massive dose/waning can't be good. More consistent application should be better.

I may even try this on the "outdoors" cat who adopted us. Is it breakaway? If so, how much force makes it break? I don't know if I want to invest a ton if she is just going to keep ripping the collar off on things (she climbs trees).

Following those who use this . . .

 

[Silaria]

Question about the collar...which size did buy for the Shelties? (sm or lg?)

Size goes by weight of the dog because of the time release of the active ingredients in the collar. My dogs are right around 18 lbs so I bought the small collars. If your dog is over 18 lbs, you need to buy the large. The excess can be trimmed off with scissors.

Can you hang tags from them?

No, they are similar to the old fashioned Hertz flea collars (but work MUCH better).

I may even try this on the "outdoors" cat who adopted us. Is it breakaway? If so, how much force makes it break?.

It's designed to break away (for both dogs and cats). It will both expand with a hard tug and also has a break point. Here's the information from the Seresto website Bayer created.

 

[Silaria]

Question about the collar...which size did buy for the Shelties? (sm or lg?)

Size goes by weight of the dog. My dogs are right around 18 lbs so I bought the small collars. If your dog is over 18 lbs, you need to buy the large. The excess can be trimmed off with scissors.

Can you hang tags from them?

No, they are similar to the old fashioned Hertz flea collars (but work MUCH better).

[qipte]I may even try this on the "outdoors" cat who adopted us. Is it breakaway? If so, how much force makes it break?.[/QUOTE]

It's designed to break away (for both dogs and cats). It will both expand with a hard tug and also has a break point. Here's the information from the Seresto website Bayer created.


I will add, they claim the collar is odorless and, for the most part, it is. I found when I first took them out of their packaging, there was a slight odor. Now that the dogs have been wearing them for a few weeks there is no odor

 

[Mom2Melli]

Any affect on repelling mosquitoes? Where I live, mosquitoes are actually a bigger problem than fleas and ticks.

 

[tesslynn]

Just wanted to chime in that I've got almost every type of essential oil mentioned/speculated to work on fleas and ticks.

I thought they worked very well last year when I used my various concoctions.

Then, I happened to find a tick, and decided to get medievial on his butt, in the name of science.

Lavender, citronella, euclyptyus, tea tree, cinnamon, atlas cedar, and he still was swimming in the bottom of the jar in that soup.
Even the 50% iso alcohol didn't seem to slow him much.

Finally, pulled out the Dollar Store tube of Bansect (Permathrin),and placed the smallest drop possible to obtain on the tick.
Before my hand had even moved away the tick pulled all 8 legs into itself and appeared to die.

It was fun playing Chemistry with the oils, however in the end it probably wasn't working nearly as well as I thought.

Picked up the Serestro last year, and also have to report that it seems to have worked well, at least the few ticks we found were actually dead.
Personally, I'm sticking with the Serestro from here on until something better comes along, and the EO's are going into the laundry...

BTW, you can buy Permethrin in the pint/quart size for $20 online at do your own pest control types of places. Mix an ounce with 2-3 gallons of water, spray your yard and you can kiss fleas/ticksmosquitoes/flies away for a month or so. Bio-degrades, not suggested for use around bees/aquatics.

did you try clove oil...I heard that does wonders???

 

[VallejoSheltie]

Just checked the mess of bottles I've got and yes, Clove was checked. It really does smell great in the washing machine!

I did not check Geranium Oil, because it is $10-15/bottle.

One thing about the Tick Rangers poster, and cost.
There are a number of companies on the web who've been selling cedar oil for years, so you may want to find someone who's been in business for a while and check them out. I just saw one place that was $119 for a full lawn spray.
And, ran across a garden web forum wherein someone from 2009 recommended them as they were using a Chrysanthenum-based spray.
Not sure if they are no longer using it, because it has a very short lifespan once sprayed (2-3 days), or if they are using it in conjunction with cedar oil.
I would seriously consider one of the places that makes their own from US cedar. Not sure how long it lasts once sprayed, however it sounds like it is a lot less than what your were looking for.

I tried a good name Atlas Cedar, which IIRC is supposed to be deadly to ticks. However mine was not, but then almost all EO's are made in China, and the whole EO industry is so crooked its stupid. I may try some from one of the more reputable, long-term US sites though like cedaroil.com and cedarcide.com.

did you try clove oil...I heard that does wonders???

 

[Ann]

One thing about the Tick Rangers poster, and cost.
There are a number of companies on the web who've been selling cedar oil for years, so you may want to find someone who's been in business for a while and check them out. I just saw one place that was $119 for a full lawn spray.

Yes, I did check these things. They are a subsidiary of Natural Lawn of America and do use US cedar oil, all natural. Each treatment lasts for 6-8 weeks, guaranteed. They do four treatments a season. As I said earlier, it's not cheap, but worth it to me to have the acre of land our dogs run on protected. One treatment costs about as much as I'd spend on tick collars!

 

[MissyGallant]

A company called Tick Ranger

Please tell me that someone else suddenly has a mental image of a cartoon GIANT tick on a horse with this company name.

And on a more serious note, it's now the end of summer. How did the collar work for everyone? We battle fleas every year because of the poor unloved German Shepard next door. And we need a better plan for next year.

Also, is the collar safe to be near the cats all summer?

 

[Silaria]

And on a more serious note, it's now the end of summer. How did the collar work for everyone? We battle fleas every year because of the poor unloved German Shepard next door. And we need a better plan for next year.

We are within a few weeks of end of life for Edan's and CJ's collars and about a month shy of the end of life for Keiran's. So far we have no found a single flea or tick on any of the dogs. The last ones we saw were from the late-April/early-May time frame, right after we bought them, and those were dead. This speaks volumes to me about the quality and effectiveness of the collar since they are expiring at a time when fleas and ticks are looking to find warm spaces for the winter and we are finding none.

Also, is the collar safe to be near the cats all summer?

Sorry, I can't answer this because I don't have cats.