Advantage II (2) flea control review

     I used to work in a vet's office years ago and my vet used Advantage flea control.  I was terribly disappointed with the company, Bayer, decided to stop making our long time trusted flea remedy (over 16 years we have used it without fail!)  Advantage.  So my only alternative was to use the new Advantage II because Frontline did not work here when I tried it a few years ago.
     I am basing this review on two consecutive treatments of the product on our pets....2 dogs (one 60 pound dog and one 10 pound dog) and one 20 year old cat that is 5 pounds.   We did not get any compensation for our review.
     With all that said I will go into how we had been applying Advantage for years without fail!  We never had fleas on any of our pets...and we had plenty of pets and lived in the hot southern United States.  So, it is flea season on...lol.  I was taught by my veterinarian how to dose the Advantage by using a particular amount of the medicine for the weight of the animal.  You can do this with Revolution I have since learned, too.  Where you take the largest tube available, the 100 plus dog tube, and divide that up to treat smaller animals.  It works and saves you a lot of money.  We did this for 16 years and never had an issue.  We also did not have to reapply every month...but usually it would last over a month...sometimes even two months on our pets!  It really did the trick.  So, I decided to dose my pets using the same method with Advantage II /2, at first.
     I dosed my pets using the method I just mentioned.  It did not work well.  They still had fleas.  Even after a week, they still had fleas.  They did not have a ton of fleas, to begin with.  It was not a heavy infestation.  So, this product should have worked.  I applied it the proper areas on the pets.  I applied plenty of the fluid.  And yet they still had some fleas.  Not a lot of fleas left...but fleas.  We do not have carpet at all in our home to harbour fleas or their eggs.  But having any on the animals means... no dogs in the living room.   So my daughter's new dog that she got from the pound, a little dachshund, can not come and sleep with her because it still has fleas!  She can't bring it in the living room and play with it because it had fleas still.  Thanks Bayer.  I called Bayer and they reassured me that the amount of the main ingredient is still the same and that they only added a new chemical to do something else.  Well, I told the guy, who was not friendly, that it did not work at all as well as the old product.  He didn't seem to care. Did not offer any help nor even want the information from the tube about the product.  Great customer service.
    So, my mom gave me 2 tubes to pay me back for the old Advantage I had given her.  Wish I had kept it now.  So, I put the one tube of large dog on the 60 pound and the ten pound dogs.  I then took the large cat tube, 9 pounds and up, and put on my 5 pound cat.  And you know what.  They still had fleas.  It did not work.  They still have fleas.  We thought they had gotten rid of them.  At first it seemed to work.  We didn't check them thoroughly enough, I guess.  Because when my mom had let the dogs in while we were away for a day, we somehow got fleas in our home.  We have hard wood floors and yet have had to battle a mild flea infestation for over a month because of this crappy product, Advantage II /2.  It does not work.  My animals did not even try to run from you when you go to put it on them!  Usually all of them will try to get away...they do not like the chemicals.  But with the new Advantage II /2 they don't care...hmm...why?  Maybe because it does not work...has no effective ingredients in it?
     So, I got out my last tube of Advantage original for large dogs and broke it open.  I put it on my cat and 2 dogs and guess what?  No fleas.  Not a single one.  Well, actually one...dead.
      My mom recently bought another quality Bayer product, K-9 Advantix and put it on her 3 dogs.  She used one tube for dog.  And guess what?  Still has fleas.  They scratch like crazy.  Did nothing to them.  What gives?
    It pains me because I do not want to put different chemicals on my 20 year old cat.  She has been through so much already this year.  She went through a trauma when a new cat (now gone cat) gave her herpes and a bacterial infection from wheat litter hit then too.  She almost died. She got an eye ulcer and all she wants to do is be with us.  So, it is really cruddy to deny my 20 year old cat access to our couch at night to get loving because Bayer can not sell consumers a product that actually works properly.  It is total b.s.

Contemplations

    We are contemplating getting a Great Dane puppy, full bred.  We are also contemplating getting a used cuddy cabin boat.  I think that would be a lot of fun...both or either of the two.  As it stands it would be savings that paid for the puppy.  And depending on what we believe God for, it would be partially financed for the used boat.  But I really hope we could get that with cash too...Lord willing.  Then we would not need a pool...the river would be our pool.   Tool around looking at the leaves...during autumn...nice.  Lord willing.  Just show us what you want us to do with our finances Lord.  We have no issues dropping these ideas like hot cakes if you want us to.  Us humans are fickle anyhow...lol.

They use aborted babies' cells in making flavorings for food!

     Aborted Baby Cells used by Senomyx to make flavorings for processed foods!


Read the article.  You can say that if people would just go back to the foods that God made, the basics, we would not have this issue.
   But what kind of twisted demonic thought processes came up with, "Hey why not use an internal organ from a dead baby to make a new flavor?"  How do you even allow the thoughts of using dead HUMAN BEINGS  as part of your process to make food enhancers!???!!!  What in God's name is wrong with these people?!  Are they so far gone from God that they have no respect of life!?!
    So, if you eat processed foods now, in a way, you are saying abortion is ok.  You are going against God's best if you eat the processed foods that is for sure.  But now, on top of that, you are allowing these monsters to take God's precious gifts to us, children, and use these dead children to make 'new' flavors!  What God made in the garden is not good enough for you?!  You just need a little sprinkling of cannibalism for your crap food to taste better?!  Sick and twisted people.  Just sick and twisted.
   

I am blessed

    I got to see Charlie Daniels perform at the Grand Ole Opry months before the Opry was flooded and it had to be rebuilt.  That was a couple of years ago.  Then Christmas Eve we got to see An Irish Christmas with the Getty's.  Ricky Skaggs came and performed with them.  It was amazing.  I was crying...the music was so beautiful and uplifting to God!

Wow

I figured it out

    One of my sister's in Christ had had a miscarriage that same day, and that is why I was picking up on some really weird feelings that were not originating with me.  She is doing much better and is at peace now.  Which is a real blessing!
     We have been doing well here, as well!  God is showing me how to be more respectful day by day. I am making progress and am so thankful for my husband still loving me and giving me time to change and being patient with me.  I am very thankful he is still with me.  He is a kind man at heart, he really is.
     Today I am making bread and going to my first dental appointment in years.  I do not particularly like going to the dentist.  I am going to have to pray about it.  I do not want them to do the pokey at my gums thing.  I hope no one tries to bully me in to it.  I just wanted a teeth cleaning.  I quit smoking over 4 years ago and thought getting that junk off of my teeth would be nice.  Pray for me, because I am a little nervous but I know that God will protect me and give me a way out if things get tough. Praise God!
   

What is up with me today?!

     I know no one really reads this things, so this isn't to any one really, just myself.  But what was up with me today?!  I don't know if it was supernatural, or the barometric pressures changes because of the storm fronts or what!  But I was wishy washy, sensitive, and jumpy.  I felt at peace some times but when I did not feel at peace I had a hard time pinpointing why that was.  I guess next time I should really pray in tongues about it.  But I did not do it today.  Next time I hope to remember to do that.  It was weird. I didn't really like it at all.  Remembering God's promises and what He likes from us is helpful, too!.