Pet Shield Flea Screen Combo - Small Dog

Only use FleaScreen Combo for dogs if your dog is aged 8 weeks or older, and weighs more than 2kg.  Do not use if your dog is sick or recovering from an illness.  Do not use if your dog has a hypersensitivity to the active ingredients or any of the ingredients.  Do not apply on wounded or damaged skin. Do not use FleaScreen Combo for Dogs on cats or ferrets.  Do not use on rabbits, as adverse reactions including death can occur.

For optimum flea control, all animals in the house should be treated with a suitable flea treatment, ideally every 4 weeks. Continuous regular treatments help prevent adult fleas infesting your pet and their eggs being distributed throughout the house. Fleas from cats and dogs can infest the animal’s bedding or other areas in the house where they often go. Regular vacuuming and the use of a suitable household spray may be needed if there is a heavy infestation. Controlling fleas is only part of protecting your pet and your family against harmful parasites. Provide your pet with effective flea and worm treatments regularly, to combat external parasites such as fleas and internal parasites like the roundworm Toxocara canis that can be passed to humans. Regular treatments help break the lifecycles of these parasites, helping to keep your pet and your family healthy and pest free.

Always use as directed. Before use, read the package leaflet for full instructions and all warnings, including user warnings. Hold the pipette in an upright position, twist and pull the cap off. Turn the cap around and place the other end of the cap back on the pipette. Push and twist the cap to break the seal, then remove the cap from the pipette. Part the coat on the back of the animal at the base of the neck in front of the shoulder blades until the skin is visible. Place the tip of the pipette onto the skin and squeeze the pipette several times to empty its contents completely and directly onto the skin in one spot.

Do not reapply more often than at four weekly intervals. It is important to make sure that the product is applied to an area where the animal cannot lick it off and to make sure that animals do not lick each other following treatment.

PDSA - Applying Flea Treatment to your Dog

This product will treat fleas, ticks and lice that live on your pet! Just make sure you apply it to your pets skin on the back of their neck (where they can't reach) every 4 weeks and don't bathe your pet for a few days afterwards, so it doesn't wash off. Remember, 50 fleas on your pet can mean up to a thousand fleas or eggs in your house! So for best results make sure to treat your home too, using a flea house spray.

Flea and tick spot-ons are an important way to protect your pet’s health
but how you use them really matters. The way these medicines are applied can
affect how well they work and whether they end up in our waterways and wider environment

Plan – Apply – Protect
Plan – if you need to wash your pet then do it the days before applying medicine, rather than afterwards

Apply – Read the product instructions or visit the Veterinary Medicines Directorate Product Information Database to understand how to apply it right. Part your pet’s fur at the application site(s) until you can see the skin, apply directly to the skin not the fur.

Protect

• Don’t touch the application site until its dry.
• Don’t let your pet swim for at least 4 days after application.
• Try to limit swimming and washing of your pet in the weeks
  after application.
• Bin used pipettes – don’t rinse them down the sink or recycle.
• Put pet fur from treated animals in the bin, don’t leave it out for nesting birds.

Buying Products Safely

Always buy flea and tick treatments from a reputable source such as your vet, an SQP-registered retailer, a registered online pharmacy, or a pet shop retailer, etc. The VMD has published a list of registered online retailers, which contains all sellers permitted to sell
‘behind-the-counter’ or prescription-only medicines.

Counterfeit and unlicensed products do exist and may not work as intended or could harm your pet. If a product seems unusually cheap or arrives without proper packaging and labelling, treat this as a warning sign.