I wouldnt either, its naff, dont work and you're just wasting your money. Get through the vets every time

Frontline also controls lice and ticks.

but not the worms mine are all indoors anyway and not subject to lice and ticks, but hey yes if they go out get them frontlined, lol

I just love that Spot On worming treatment from the vets has saved my face and arms!!

I haven't got cats but do have dogs. Frontline is brilliant for fleas, lice and ticks. Stronghold I like because it does fleas, lice, earmites and heartworms. Heartworms are something that not a lot of people know about and can kill and I believe the normal wormers (even drontol, which I swear by) do not kill heartworms. Also earmites are horrid things and with two dogs that both have 'flappy' long ears stronghold is a boon.

However! Stronghold does NOT kill ticks! Lo and behold I found a tick on my beloved little girl's leg earlier this evening and have been trawling the internet on ways to get rid of it. I remember our Springer having one several years ago and thought I could vaguely remember the vet spraying frontline spray on the tick. Anyway found what I was looking for and YES if you spray the frontline spray direct onto the tick it will kill it within a couple of hours and then it falls off within a couple of days.

So my suggesting would be to treat with Stronghold on a regular basis and have a small bottle of Frontline spray to hand just in case one of those horrid ticks decides to jump on board. I know you can buy tick removal tweezers but to be honest I (and a lot of people it would seem) are rather squeemish and frankly worried/scared of pulling the tick off in case the head is left in the poor animal. So it seems to me the Frontline spray is best all round to treat these little tick blighters. I shall still take my little girl to the vet to have the tick removed in the morning but that is because I really hate the things and also have a real spider phobia and know that ticks are related!!!!!!!

ive alway used frountline never realy heard of stringhold

Do you live in the USA? Just wanted to ask because we don't have heartworm in the UK where a lot of our members live, not being funny I hope but it might be an idea to have your location somewhere in your posts or ID on the forum. New owners outside your own country where heartworm doesn't exist might be panicked unnecessarily Just a thought! and kind regards to you

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It certainly panicked me!

I have never heard of heartworm and was a bit worried that I ahve not been using any preventative

Are you sure it is not in the UK ??

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No, we don't have it here. But it's a serious problem in the USA.

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Sue, Merlin & Cuba
Dog moves in mysterious ways. Be at peace, Patrick.
I've been described as a lighthouse in a bog - brilliant, but useless.

we are currently using advocate which like stronhold covers fleas, worms and earmites

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