However, a recent Harris Poll found that of the dog owners surveyed who provide a
monthly oral heartworm disease preventative to their dogs, nearly one quarter (23 percent) say their dogs do not always eat the entire
tablet.
Flea control measures include: bathing, dipping, collars, Sentinel («flea birth control» - an
oral tablet that acts by sterilizing fleas), Capstar (
oral tablet offers rapid elimination of adult fleas, usually within 30 minutes), Comfortis (month - long chewable
tablet that kills fleas and prevents reinfestations), Advantage topical (kills fleas up to thirty days with
monthly application), Frontline topical (kills fleas and ticks), Revolution topical (heartworm preventative and kills fleas and ticks as well), Vectra topical (works by killing adult fleas, preventing development of immature flea stages, and repelling ticks and mosquitoes), Trifexis (
monthly chewable
tablet for dogs that kills fleas, prevents heartworm disease, and treats / controls adult hookworm, roundworm and whipworm infections), and - very important - treating the environment with carpet powders, foggers, or sprays.
Trifexis (spinosad + milbemycin oxime) is a flavored
oral tablet given once
monthly to prevent fleas, heartworm, roundworm, hookworm, and whipworm.