I Used to Check My Labrador for Ticks Every Single Night. Here Are the 5 Steps That Made Me Stop.

By Maggie R., FurShield Customer
Labrador mom of Luna | 52 | Pennsylvania | Published May 2026

I am not a vet. I am not a scientist. I am a 52-year-old woman who got so tired of finding ticks on my Labrador that one night I sat at my kitchen table and cried.

 

If you have ever felt that level of frustration, even quietly to yourself, this is for you. Here is exactly what happened over the next 12 months, in the order it happened.

Step 1. I was searching through my dog's fur every single night.

Luna would come home from her walk and before I could sit down, I had to check her. Behind her ears. Around her neck. Under her legs. Between her toes. Around her belly. I did this after everyday, after every walk.

I would find multiple ticks within the week. A small, swollen black dot already attached, already drinking on her blood. I would get the tick remover, pull it off, drop it in alcohol, and feel guilt for the rest of the day.

Even Luna noticed. She started pulling away when I reached for her after walks, like she was tired of the searching too. That was when I knew I needed to do something different.

Step 2. I started researching, and I kept running into the same frustrating reality.

I read every blog, forum, reviews. I watched every video. And every single option I found had the same the same underlying problem.

The chews worked but came with alarming FDA warnings about seizures. The drops had the same irritating ingredients. Even the most popular collars were tied to thousands of EPA incident reports, including pet fatalities. While the brands denied any wrongdoing, I couldn't shake what I’d learned. 

 

Every solution seemed to ask me to make a trade-off. It felt like a trap: every option on the market seemed either completely useless or genuinely dangerous, with absolutely no middle ground.

Step 3. I tried them anyway, and they failed me.

I started with Seresto, mostly because every dog in the neighborhood seemed to wear one. I put it on Luna in April, but by May, I had already pulled six ticks off her. It was supposed to repel them, but it clearly wasn’t doing its job.

 

Then I switched to a monthly chew. The convenience sounded great on paper. But after the very first dose, Luna became completely lethargic and refused to eat for two days. When I called the vet, they told me it was "normal" and to keep using it. I couldn't do it. I threw the rest of the box right into the trash.

 

By the end of summer, I was right back where I started. More money spent. More frustration. And a dog that still needed protection every time we stepped outside.

Step 4. I found the FurShield tag, but I didn't think it would work.

I saw it in a Pet Daily article by a vet named Dr. Melanie Baker. I read the whole thing three times. 

What caught my attention was the mechanism. It wasn't a stronger, toxic pesticide. It was a small tag that diffuses six plant-basd oils into the air around the dog, creating an invisible field ticks and fleas avoid getting near. No chemicals in Luna's bloodstream. No risk of seizures. No chemical burns. Just a protective barrier around her.

The price felt high for something I didn't believe would work. The 30 day money back guarantee was the only reason I got it. I figured if it was a scam, I could just get my money back.

After placing the order, it arrived in three days. I clipped it onto Luna's collar that night and I went to bed expecting nothing to happen.

Step 5. I completely forgot that I had put this on her.

For the first three weeks I still checked her after every walk out of habit. By week four I was checking less thoroughly. By week six I realized I had not found a tick on her in over a month.

Then a stranger thing happened. I stopped thinking about it completely.

I took Luna to the lake for her birthday in April. We walked through tall grass, ran in the woods, swam off the dock. On the drive home I caught my own face in the rearview mirror just listening to the radio. Luna was asleep on the back seat. I didn't think to check her once.

That was the moment I realized what the tag had actually given me. It was not just protection for Luna. It was the peace of mind I had not felt in years. The space in my brain that used to be filled with ticks was empty. I finally got my relief back.

It has now been 10 months. Luna has not had a tick or a flea since the tag went on. She sleeps on my bed every night and I have no reason to check her.

 

If you are reading this, you are probably where I was.

 

Tired. Checking. Caught between the chemicals and the ticks and not sure what to do about it.

I cannot promise the FurShield tag will work for your dog the way it worked for Luna. Nobody can promise that. What I can tell you is they refund you within 30 days, no questions asked, and 30 days is enough time to know.

I will leave the link to the tag in a button below this text. If you click it, you can see if it is still available. I highly recommend you check it.
 

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May 2026 Update

 

I got an email from FurShield last week that's worth sharing.. They thanked me for sending readers their way through this article, mentioning that they’ve been flooded with kind messages from people who tried the pendant, I have been getting them too, in my own inbox.

The creators of the tag said the kind words fuels them to keep going, because what they are really working toward is a world where ticks and fleas don't feed off our pets. I had never thought it was possible. But the more I sit with it, the more I think that’s exactly how we should look at it.

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Quick answers to the questions I got the most

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