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From: bruce@fluke.UUCP (Bruce Reynolds)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: LifeTime flea Collor
Message-ID: <1388@vax3.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-May-85 15:53:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 15:53:13 1985
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Reply-To: bruce@fluke.UUCP (Bruce Reynolds)
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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Keywords: fenthion, spotton

*** REPLACE THESE FLEAS WITH FENTHION ***

    I'm glad someone brought this up.  Do you have a flea problem?  Do you
    want it to go away?

    We have three dogs, and the problem was *severe* a couple of years ago.
    It was driving us nuts, and we had tried lots of different things.

    Then we tried, on the advice of a (good) vet, fenthion.  The fleas
    disappeared forever.  It's about as effective as a nuclear bomb.

Fenthion (Brand name: Spotton)

    When we tried it three years ago, it was experimental on dogs, and we had
    to sign a release.  It was being tested by a vet school in Georgia.  It
    has been around a while for treating cattle for grubworms, and can be
    bought over the counter in tack or feed stores.  It is applied topically,
    on the back of the neck, so the dog will not lick at it.  It is deadly
    poison to cats (don't put it on your cat).  It didn't harm my acquarium
    fish, or the canary.  I WOULDN'T USE IT WITHOUT A VET'S GUIDANCE. 

Real simple:

    Here's how it works:  you put a dab from a syringe on the back of the dogs
    neck.  We used about 1 cc for 20 pounds of dog, once per month.  You can
    get by with much less, less frequently, after the problem is controlled.
    (The other posting mentions 1 cc per 100 pounds once per week.)  The stuff
    smells horrible when you open the bottle, and stinks up the house for
    several hours. 

Real effective:

    Soon, your dogs will be free of fleas.  So will their beddding, your
    bedding, their play area, your yard, your neighbor's yard, your friend's
    houses, and lowly-flying aircraft.  The stuff is strong.  So strong that
    after a few months, we used 1cc per dog (60 to 90 lbs) every six weeks,
    and still had no problems.  We used no other flea-control measures, and
    had no fleas, in an area where the problem had been severe.

Well, gosh, it it's so good, isn't it dangerous?

    Well, you wanted to get rid of your fleas, didn't you?  I once heard a
    rumor that it had been weakly linked to a kidney failure or two, but i
    think that is a rumor.  Your vet will know for sure.  We had no effects,
    after two half-years (we only used it during the summers).  We did cut back
    the dosage the Vet recommended when the stuff turned out to work.  

    We moved, and have a new vet now, who recommended we not use it, partly
    because our flea problem is easily controllable now, and partly because he
    thought it was a little strong.  This is the vet that prescribed DMSO, but
    that is another story.  

    And besides, it's always good to have a bottle of something really deadly
    lying around, just in case.  :-)

    Bruce The Zookeeper

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