Flea Tick and Heartworm Prevention for Dogs

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Dogs are going to do their thing, and for most of them that means a lot of bounding about out of doors and not coming back home for hours on end. For every one animal out there enjoying the great outdoors there are a hundred or more critters, and some of them have bad intentions. Fleas and ticks are set on feeding themselves on your dog’s blood, and heartworms have even more dastardly plans that can lead to your dog meeting an early demise. For all these reasons flea tick and heartworm prevention is so important for all dogs, and especially those that are out of the home a lot. 

Simparica Trio makes the grade there, as it works effectively to kill all 3 types of parasites. When a dog has fleas it is fairly easy to make that determination based on the non-stop scratching. Ticks not so much, although you can find them if you’re willing to do some searching through fur. When it comes to worms roundworms will have dogs scooting, which is term that’s used when the sit down and drag their hindquarters across the carpet to get relief. 

But while heartworms are the absolute worst of all the worms there is often very little if anything to tip you off to the fact they’re at work inside your dog’s chest cavity. By the time you DO become aware of them with advanced heartworm symptoms in dogs it is often too late and your dog may be faced with the prospect of dying. This is why taking a heartworm preventative for dogs is so incredibly important, but the big advantage of Simparica trio is it a combination flea tick and heartworm medication for dogs. 

All 3 of them get whacked, and that’s a beautiful owner if you’re a person who loves your dog and doesn’t want to see them with anything from a scratching nuisance to potential heart failure. 

Region Considerations

Fleas are found absolutely everywhere in North America, and there’s not really one sport where there’s more of them than you’d find elsewhere. They don’t have a very long lifespan, but during their short time alive they can be an absolute torment for pets with the non-stop biting. And they reproduce like crazy, but Simparica flea and tick also kills flea larvae too so the next generation of parasites isn’t guaranteed. 

And if you want to be convinced that this flea tick and heartworm prevention for dogs medication works, give your dog a bath about a week after their first dose. Watch how many of the come out when your rinse off the dog shampoo – they’ll be also sorts of black specs making their way towards the drain. 

Ticks are a different story, and the southeast of The Midwest is the region of the US where dog ticks are the worst. And heartworms? Well, they can be acquired anywhere too and it’s another parasite that’s at fault there. 

The microfilariae of the worms are introduced to the dog by mosquito bites, and as we all know there’s little if anything that can be done to avoid getting mosquito bites. You can spray your exposed skin with OFF bug spray or some other type of insect repellant but that’s not going to happen with your dog, and if you tried you’d have one displeased pooch to deal with.

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