[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by CFrance

I understand what you are saying, but still, with a double-coated dog bred to swim in all kinds of weather, it is nearly impossible to get all the way down to the skin even when giving a bath, let alone spraying something topical. I bathe our dog between monthly groomings but am never able to get him as thoroughly clean as the professionals do. I doubt I could wash the fleas off of him.

And what is in Skin So soft? It's very oily. I can't imagine spraying it on a golden retriever, even diluted, and then allowing him to lie on the bedroom carpet, or having to wash it off of the tile and grout.

BTW, Bonanza, somewhere I have a card for a holistic vet that a friend uses for her Yorkie. If you wish to talk to a "vet from the other side" about heartworm, I'll try to find it. But maybe you already use one.

No, we don't go to a holistic vet and we are not unhappy with the vet we just started using.

I agree that using Avon's Skin So Soft on your dog would be terrible, and I'm not sure I would use it on our dogs either. It is greasy and probably would require more than an occasional bath. I don't know what the diluted strength would or should be. I only mentioned it because others have used this in the past but again, don't know what those results are either.