Seresto Small Dog Vet-Recommended Flea & Tick Treatment & Prevention Collar for Dogs Under 18 lbs. | 8 Months Protection

I ordered this for my Chihuahua. She had a problem when we first got her with ticks. But it works very well. She has no ticks or fleas.

Best flea collar made. Tried two other cheaper collars. Not going through that disaster again. And definitely not giving a supposedly safe oral treatment. Have you read what’s in those oral preventatives. Yes, Seresto is more expensive but I have found and the vet said it’s the best and safest flea collar made for now. So I keep an eye out for when it’s on sale/has a coupon and buy the next one ahead of time. The vet also informed me there is one that has not gone through approval yet but when it gets to market it is going to be the most effective and totally safe except for a rare incident. I’m looking forward to that.

I have always used K9 Advantix on my dogs, and never had problems until the year I started camping in Northern Wisconsin. Now, let me just say -- the K9 Advantix worked PERFECTLY on my large-breed dogs - never a single flea or tick. Knowing that we were heading into a tick-infested area, I put the Advantix drops on my 80 lb german shepherd and my 7 lb papillon a week before camping. After a walk in the woods, I found one tick clinging to the outside hair of my german shepherd, not attached -- easy to just flick right off before we went in the house. We didn't find any ticks on the papillon until we went home. First found one tick within 24 hours, had to remove it with tweezers but figured, hey, maybe it hadn't attached long enough to get killed by the Advantix. Then found another after 24 hours. And another after 48 hours (by that time it was engorged). Clearly the Advantix was not working on my papillon, though it seemed to be working on my large breed dog. Perhaps the drops, being such a low quantity due to his size, didn't absorb properly. But I wasn't about to joke around with ticks and lyme disease, so I started looking for alternative options. The day before I ordered the Seresto collar, my dog picked up a tick in my own backyard, in the city of Milwaukee, with mowed grass and everything. That was it - I was going to risk my fear of collar side-effects, watch my dog carefully, and get this collar. Fast forward 10 days after wearing the Seresto collar. No side effects (I checked FREQUENTLY for signs of rashes/redness/lethargy/hair loss), and we found a dead tick (not yet engorged) dead in the house. I'm convinced it was the Seresto collar, given that the small dog is the one who already picked up 4 ticks, while the larger dog barely picked up one. The large dog is still using up what's remaining of my K9 Advantix, but I'm likely to switch her to the Seresto collar next year. The convenience of having one collar for the whole non-winter season, the fact that it seems to WORK on my small-breed dog, and the cost per month for the collar vs the drops has sold me. I think the drops work fine for large breed dogs, but can fail due to miniscule dosage amounts on smaller breeds. The collar is safer for my dog when it comes to lyme disease, compared to the risk of side effects (which you should be on the lookout for with both drops and/or collar during the first few days of application -- anyone can have a reaction to medicine if they're allergic). Seresto has sold me on their collar -- now all we have to do is repeat the camping experience and see how long the collar lasts. Happy camping!

WOW! my dogs had flea's. several dog baths/even with dish soap-I could not keep up with flea control.I heard about these collars-reluctantly I purchased for both my dogs.Reluctant for me due to cost- I put them on the dogs and WOW! within a day no more fleas! All summer long no fleas! THIS WORKS! and my dogs-dachshund and pomeranian had no side affects. I will always purchase this collar again and again.

These collars work well, but definitely keep an eye on your dogs for any issues. 3 of my dogs did fine with it, but it made one of them sick (really bad diarrhea) the day after we put the collar on and we had to take the collar off of him. The other three still use the collars and these worked when various other preventions wouldn’t. This past summer was the first time our dogs ever got fleas and I wish I had tried these collars first rather than wasting an awful amount of money on other things prior. We did use Capstar with them after a few days to get a head start on killing the fleas and giving the collar time to kick in. It seemed it took a week or maybe a little more before they were in full effect.