No matter how many times you bath your dog, the first thing that he will do when you let him out, is to look for something really, really smelly to roll around in. My dog was always particularly fond of odour de dead hedgehog, this was like channel no5 to her and she absolutely stank, not that she thought so. Of course when dogs behave like this it is not surprising that they will end up with fleas and all sorts of other unmentionables. This is why it is important to have an effective treatment for fleas and ticks, did you realise that ticks carry a bacteria that can cause arthritis to develop in your dog, canine arthritis does actually effect quite a lot of dogs, so anything we can do to reduce this risk has got to be beneficial to our dogs health and well being. Advantix flea control is my personal choice of treatment for my dog as not only will it treat fleas and ticks but also biting flies and mosquitoes as well.

This is a flea control treatment that you apply between your dogs shoulder blades once a month, larger dogs will need slightly more drops than smaller ones, and this treatment should never be used on puppies under seven weeks old. This is a topical treatment, which simply means that you apply directly to the skin, and once dry there is no need to worry about it washing off so you’re pet can still go out in the rain or swimming. Unfortunately the one thing that this treatment won’t do, it won’t stop your pet rolling around on dead hedgehogs, for this you will have to keep a close watch and remove any dead hedgehogs you see away so your dog can’t get them. It is quite odd that no matter how smelly or dirty our dogs get we still love them. Weird.