One of my little guys with one of the puppies, last year. Yes, the puppy is intent on destroying Uniqua.

Where I live, the ticks are really, really bad this year. Really bad. Last evening, I saw what looked like a gray jellybean waddling slowly across the floor. It was a disgusting, bloated, still alive tick. Blech. Blech.

Last week, for my weekly newspaper column, I focused on ticks. But there is good news!

The only really proven thing (imho) to work at preventing/killing ticks is fipronil. Say what you want about not wanting to expose kids or pets to chemicals, I don’t care, I use it. It works. And I fully believe it is safe. It is also expensive.

But, I heard about a product, and I wanted to look into it, so I did. I asked a friend who is a veterinarian about PetArmor. It claims to work as well as Frontline and has the same active ingredient-fipronil. This was his response, when I asked if it would work the same as Frontline: