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Just curious if anyone is having actual luck with buying comfortis overseas without prescription. My pens are on dirt and my vet recently retired and would let me buy comfortis without a visit every year. Figure it's worth a shot. I have tried multiple other methods but nothing works as good as the comfortis, I usually buy the largest pill and split them in half and they work for 6-8 weeks.

Goose turned me on to this. Conserve, same base ingredient as Comforts, Spinaside. I have not had a flea on my place in 2 1/2 years. It's organic and you can give orally.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180418/c223d609d62943038abb1133fc40748a.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180418/06efe028c0bdbc7529a08220a5b522d6.jpg)

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What's that bottle cost and how many doses do you get Cajun?Looks like it'll last awhile.

Sssshhhh Cajun... don’t tell everybody!!! Haha... we’ve been using it for several years now also... works great. We figured if the word got out they would add something to it like Bayer did.


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I give 1cc per 10lbs orally during feeding time. Make sure and give it with feed or they’ll throw it up just like Comfortis.


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It was 120-150 dollars. Not sure but give it once a month.

Do you give it right out the bottle without dilution at 1cc per 10 lbs?

Yes sir... shake the bottle up very well before you use it.


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I've been using Nexguard pills. you can get them off bestvaluepetsupplies.com. 6 pack of pills is $81.(I cut them in 1/2) Treats fleas ticks heartworm and some other worms. Still pretty expensive though, if you keep a lot of dogs.

Thanks, any suggestions on where to buy conserve?

First bottle I ordered lasted me a year and half, and that was treating 40 head between me and my father in law in addition to doing my parents and neighbors dogs a few times, after a few applications I cut my dosage in half, now I’ll go 3 or 4 months without giving it to my dogs and give them some as needed once there is no longer an established flea population...


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I found the conserve spinosad 11.6% 32 ounce bottle for $150 (domyown.com), the same bottle in the picture. Dosage is 1cc per 10 pounds. Just want to verify prior my order, but this is awesome and you guys have no idea how much this will help/save me! Thank you!

Google search Conserve SC and it will give you list of retailers, you can search around and find it different prices, depends on where you buy, I’ve used it for 5 years and haven’t had a flea or tapeworm issue ever since, I’ve tried different brands that use Spinosad but in weaker formula and none of them were even in comparison with the Conserve SC, it smells strong but is organic, I’ve never seen any adverse reactions other than what mike said about the throwing it back up if given on an empty stomache, I’ve given it to pregnant females and females nursing pups and never had any issues the pups got it through the milk I guess because the next morning there wasn’t a flea in existence on them or the female, I’ve put infested dogs in a kennel after application and came back 3 hours later and the bottom was full of dead fleas, definitely some great stuff one application pays for the entire bottle after I put pen to paper and figured up what the cost of comfortis was for me and what it cost me in sprays, granules, powders, dips and time treating them like I was, I to am curious to know what they may add to it to curtail dog owners from using it like the Bayer Company did, two things in our favor right now are the price and and the fact that’s it’s manufactured for organic farming, sharing information such as this is great for private forums like this, but let’s keep in mind what the Bayer Company did when word got out about their tree and shrub product containing the same active ingredient as a commonly sold and highly marked up flea preventive product, this product saves the dog man a good bit of money not to mention the benefits and and well being it brings to our dogs, what one man does is his business, but it would benefit us greatly if we refrain from blasting this all over public social media such as Facebook, word travels at the speed of light this day and time and these manufacturing companies are all about profit and will do what they can to maintain their grip on our lives, there’s absolutely nothing negative about sharing this type of information with in the dog world but the mistakes we’ve made before need to be always kept in mind when we pass this kind of information on to the next man, Cajun in no way is this a rub against you or finger pointed in your direction for sharing it here or anything along those lines, this is great information to be shared on closed and screened forums such as this...


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Yes 1cc per ten pounds and depending on situation and you may be able to cut your dosage in half after several months of being on it, it worked for me and now i just treat them if I see one scratching or see any fleas when I’m petting them at feeding or handling them...


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The information is much appreciated. Thanks for sharing, this site has helped me out a lot. Please feel free to delete this thread, and I'm on board with keeping this between us to prevent not having access to it in the future! Thanks again.

For those of y’all interested I just bought a bottle of this off eBay for 119.00 w/ free shipping, that’s the cheapest I’ve ever seen it...


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Got mine off of Amazon  for 75.00. Been treating whole damn crew for a years or do now

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You ran across a deal then, cheapest I’ve seen it on there when I’ve reordered was around 130$ w/ shipping. Did you buy the Dow AgroSciences brand?


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The stuff works and is going to save me a number 2 load of money in the long run. Thanks guys, if you're ever in the North Central Florida area let me know and I'll take ya doggin with me. Thanks again.

I currently use liquid Ivomec and either safeguard or strongid wormer each month. Would the conserve take the place of the safeguard/strongid?

No sir... it’s only for fleas.

I might take you up on that offer, might be making a trip over there in the next month or so and try out some of the WMA’s, have you ever hunted any of them, I’ve been looking at some around Santa Rosa and escambia counties...


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Yes  sir..

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Goose,

I'm closer to Mallory Swamp WMA, those areas you named are pretty far from me. I'm near Branford/Mayo area. Shoot me a message if you want to come.

Ok guys I got a ??? I got a bottle of this stuff on the 18th of last month and treated every thing that day and today I noticed  I had a few fleas

I think I got them when me and the dogs was helping I.H. Cracker hide gators yesterday day hahahahha just playing

Anyways so I caught a few hogs this passed weekend and was wondering if maybe that stuff should still be killing the fleas or should I treat them again I know y’all said a month so don’t want to over do something


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Wait till it’s been a month, then treat them again. Shake the bottle very well and be sure to give it with feed.


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Ok sounds good thank u mike


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Having good outcomes even on the cats!

Did you give it to the cats orally. I bet they liked that. lol

I was thinking the same thing, lol...


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Sure did, bet your ass I wasn't holding on to them after I gave it to them.

If some of you want to go a bit cheaper, I use dominion 2L. I use it sort of like frontline 2-3cc at tail and neck. Active ingredient is imidacloprid, same as advantix. I put it on once per week till fleas are gone... usually 1-2 treatments. Around $20 of 20oz

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9256968/



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Swine stalker...that dominion 2l has a 21.4% concentration of Imidacloprid...I have 3 bottle 32 oz bottles of it but have not had to use any...I will use them for treating termites one day...been sitting in the shelf for 2 or 3 years now...I thought about using it on my dog but got cold feet on account of the high concentration...

When I did the calculation I needed to use (I think) 1.5 cc's or mils of this product but never did...

Martins dominion also sold one at TSC for about 12 buck at one time and it was like 7% or so...I bought one bottle and then gave it to my brother...and when I went to buy another they didn't sell it anymore...

Martins Dominion tree I shrub is 1.47% and that is 24 bucks which and the Dominion 2l is 20 bucks of a lot more product...

sounds to me that 2-3 cc's is still safe by what you are saying...

I have been spraying my yard with another product that has worked well for me...I use it twice a year to kill mosquitos and it kills every fire ant as a bonus and any other bug (not a good thing)...I spray dog houses and kennels and since the dogs haven't had fleas...I think I have skipped a year and it still works but I really can't say for sure why if it is that product or a wormer I use...regardless I haven't used Imidacloprid products since.....I have several different brands of topical spray bottles of Imidacloprid topical but haven't used any like I already mentioned...

I sold a six month old pup a couple months back that I never treated for fleas so the pup is about 8 months old now...The owner called me last week and wanted to know what I had given the pup because all his dogs had fleas and the pup I sold him didn't have any...for forty bucks I spray the back yard and front yard...keeps killing for many months and repels mosquitoes for a month or two...my house sits on two lots...

I won't post it but you can PM me if you want to try it...

Several years back when I was using the 1.47% imidacloprid the calculation I came up with was about 13 cc’s for a 40- 60 pound dog...

Forgot to mention pour on between shoulder blades and top line...

Pm sent


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So I got me some of the conserve last month after reading this thread.
Man it worked good on the big dogs and I only gave em 3cc for 50lb or so dogs.
Question is to you guys that have been using it for a while. How old do you let pups get before using it on em? It’s got a pretty strong smell and by the reactions of the dogs tastes about the same as it smells. They were def giving second thoughts about swallowing it on that pc of bread but they did...lol

Semmes, I’ve given it to 6 month old pups before with no problems.


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Obie I give it to my gyps with pups as young as 2 weeks old, I've given it to the pups themselves at 7 weeks old, just 1cc, it is pretty strong smelling stuff and I imagine if giving in extreme amounts it can be lethal and fatal but it's labeled for organic farming applications and is naturally derived from the earth...

Cool...thanks for the replies!

Coming around time to re-dose the big dogs and ain’t seen a flea on em this whole month. But had 3 bulldog pups come thru and kept one that is bout 13wks old now and the last one I got brought a few fleas with it so I bathed it before I threw it in with the other two. Now down to my keeper and just wanna stay out ahead on the fleas