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Please, please, please, please, please vaccinated your dog. Please. I beg you. If you love them. If you care about them. For your dog's own sake, please vaccinate them.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I have honestly heard nothing about them, but considering we have to buy expensive soft food and crush the Trifexis into it to get them to eat it each month, that sounds like a pretty good alternative.

[–] adamplacker@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@FlyingSquid You might ask your vet and see if it’s a good fit for you! Like you my dogs socialize with each other, other family members dogs - never random dogs and I’ve never really had flea or tick issues, certainly never worms. So it’s hard to speak to any efficacy but from a preventative standpoint it seemed right for us, I had a hard time with my dogs and the oral treatments as well.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was already planning on asking her next time I brought one of them in. Thanks!