We are going to France in the Moho in September, and Dylan is booked in for his rabies jab and pet passport next Monday. He will need to have flea/tick/worm treatment which has to be signed off on the passport.
Now we get a lot of ticks here in Scotland, I just pick em off. I don,t use a flea treatment, we have never had them (touch wood). I don't like using chemicals unless necessary. However, I have always wormed my dogs, with few problems, but last year he was given Drontal, he was very ill after, with sickness and diarrhoea, all his gut bacteria were stripped out and he had a course of Canakur eventually. We were up in far north of Scotland at the time in the Moho, vets few and far between, so it was not a good experience, and I haven't actually wormed him this year.
The nurse/receptionist I just spoke to said they have a new product called Nexgard Spectra, a chewable medication which you give them monthly, and does fleas, ticks and worms all in one go. I'm always wary of all in one things, and I see there's a Facebook group with horro stories of dog deaths from it
When you go to France you have to get your dog wormed 48 hours before you return on the ferry, and signed off by a vet, which might make the timing of giving it problematic. Anyone had any experience of this product?
Lesley and Dylan