Bob Martin flea treatments

Re: Bob Martin flea treatments

Tanya Leslie — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:45:38 GMT

Hi K,

I hope this reply is not too late for you! If you would still like some advice about how long to wait in between using different products, please give our Technical Centre a call on 0870 6000 123 and we'll be happy to help.

Tanya

Merial Animal Health

Re: Bob Martin flea treatments

Jillian Hall — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:18:36 GMT

As advantix has a licence for application every 2 weeks for sandflies, I would presume that permethrin products in general can be applied within 2 weeks of each other. If I was using a different product, without permethrin, I would be comfortable applying it considerably sooner than that.

Re: Bob Martin flea treatments

Charlotte Marshall — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:42:35 GMT

We asked Merial this once and they reckoned we could apply frontline 48 hrs after permethrin products.

Re: Bob Martin flea treatments

Laurence Webb — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:42:19 GMT

Watch out for Advantix which contains permethrin and is in a lot of the Bob Martins products. Could get cumulative toxicity there.

Re: Bob Martin flea treatments

Bob Russell — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:29:06 GMT

My view is that one of the Bob Martin products is far more effective than Frontline! This has been dealt with on other threads but we stopped using fipronil based spot-ons a few years ago except for tick control.

Remember one of the Bob Martins products is actually the same as Advantage! Assuming you are talking about permethrin based products I recommend a week but this is based more on caution and ignorance than knowledge!

Imidocloprid products have such a good safety level that I would happily put another product on next day but as it seems to work well for flea control I am not sure I would recommend another product for a month.

Bayer seem to be busily supporting the pet shop companies such as Bob Martins and I am sure Advantix will go over the counter fairly soon. It is difficult to argue that such a product should be POM when both ingredients sit side by side on Morrisons shelves!

I am sure Bayer will tell us this is an opportunity not a problem!!

Re: Bob Martin flea treatments

Mark Holmes — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:26:51 GMT

As far as I understand,in the dog its ok as long as its dry . In the cat I would wait until the permethrin has worn off and its no longer trying to seizure.