Breeze'sMom

The smell seems to be gone now. The Advantage website said there is "no odour". That was obviously a lie or maybe it's just how my dog metabolizes it. Thanks for all the help.

Thanks Mita for the shaving tip. I'll try that next time. It was really hard to find any "skin" so maybe a lot of it didn't get absorbed. The cat version of Advantage doesn't seem to smell like that so I'm assuming it has a different chemical composition. (Makes sense since you have to buy the dog version for dogs.) I may give her a little less next time since it was for 10 lbs. or less and she is only 6 lbs.

No, she's not sick. The smell came after we put the Advantage on her. She's healthy and happy today. The smell seems to be less noticeable but it's still there. I've emailed the company that makes it to see what they say.

We treated our 6 year old, 6 lb. Pom yesterday for the first time for fleas. (We adopted her in the summer.) We just recently noticed some flea droppings so bought some Advantage for dogs (the smallest size). We treated her yesterday by putting it on her neck as advised. Within a few hours we noticed a bad chemical smell emanating from her. She still smells like this this morning. It is very repulsive to me. I was so worried about her we got up at 4am to make sure she was still breathing. I was afraid she was being poisoned. We have been using Advantage for cats on our cat for years and have never noticed this smell. Has anyone else noticed this when they used Advantage on their dog? Thanks.