how to get rid of fleas

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laura35

Cathlete
my dog had really got invested with fleas, we have given him several flea baths and I got the frontline as well as capstar. It has helped but he still has a ton of fleas. we used this spray from the vet for the house but nothing is helping. any suggestions???
 
Laura - How long ago did you treat him with Frontline? I had a lab (stray - long story) that was completely infested. I did the bath thing and then applied the Frontline. After about a week, she didn't have any left. I did not wash her again in the meantime though, that would have just washed off the frontline. In addition to that, we dusted flea powder everywhere and cleaned and treated all of her bedding. I hate to bring this up, but just to give you something else to look for - she passed her fleas onto my dog Dakota and both of them ended up with tapeworms. They get them from eating the fleas and when you have a major flea infestation like that, you've got a really good chance that your dog is going to have tapeworms. Dakota's didn't show up in his stool though, they showed up in <gulp> our bed! Looked like little rice crispies dried up all over the sheets. It was absolutely horrible! Anyways, luckily they are not passable to humans and it only takes one pill to get rid of them. I'm sure your doggie doesn't have them, but thought I would share the experience so you at least know what to look for. :eek:
 
www.fleabusters.com

When I used them years ago, they came to your house and spread a hormone powder into the carpeting. It was odorless and supposedly, non-toxic to humans and pets. Worked great in the two houses I tried it in! Now it looks like the sell the powder for do-it-yourselfers.

Diane
 
The first and only time I have had a problem with fleas was many years ago. I had three big dogs, and my stepson asked me to keep his two dogs for a few months. Unfortunately, his dogs brought fleas into our home.x( I took all the dogs to the vet's office for the day to have them bathed and "dipped." While they were at the vet's, I sprayed all through the house and their bedding, and I also sprayed the yard with some outdoor product for killing fleas. I had to leave the house for several hours while the stuff worked. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the spray I used, but I do believe that the key was getting all of it done at the same time. It only took the one time of spraying, and I haven't had a problem since. (I think the stuff might have been called "Slay" but don't know if they make it anymore.) Good luck.

MissL
 
We had an older sheltie that had this problem. We had him shaved, dipped then treated with frontline, fleas were history.

A flea can live for 2 years without a host. Even if the fleas aren't eating at your pet they can still be living in the fur.
 
I rescue cats, so the flea issue is one I've dealt with, and I know our vet has told us that you can't bathe your animal before applying frontline - specifically the vet tech said "it works best on a "dirty" cat"...I don't know if bathing removes oils that the product can cling to? What was the spray your vet gave you? Ours gave us "Knockout"...it's like an aerosol fogger and it works very very well. I know it's irritating though....they are so gross!x(
 
I'm having the same problem. I have 2 kitties in the house and 1 Bichon, 2 outside kitties and 1 outside dog...so Pierre gets them from the cat that he has a bi-racial, non-physical relationship with and he brings them into the house and loves on his inside kittie harem, and well, you get the picture.

I'm saved much by having no carpet in the main rooms they hang in, but still...what can I put on them to get rid of these fleas????

And they can live 2 years without vamping on an animal. That is ridiculously amazing...and makes me mad as hades }(
 
This is what our vet said also- if you have bathed your pet wait a couple days for their natural oils to build back up before applying the frontline. It's their oils that help distribute it over their body. I put down some flea powder on our carpeted areas, vaccumed it up, and then vaccumed twice a day. Worked for us.
 
When we moved into our house, we had one flea-less indoor cat. However, the previous owners had originally had 3 indoor/outdoor cats, but only one cat when they moved out (one was hit by a car and they gave the other one to their son). Long story short, we had a houseful of fleas all converging on our one poor kitty.:-( We used Advantage on her and ended up having the house professionally flea-bombed (had to leave the house for the afternoon, etc). Granted, it was a drastic measure, but I was even getting bitten by the little buggers all the time unless I used bug spray on myself - YUCK! After that, we haven't seen a flea since!
 
A cheap solution to treating your house is to buy some mule team borax and sweep it into your carpets. Let it sit overnight then vaccuum it up the next day. For some reason the borax kills them. We did this once with a treatment of frontline for the kitties and had no problems after that.
 
Yes...I learned something else about Frontline recently, and that is that it doesn't kill on contact...they have to ingest it before they'll die from it...the reason I learned this is that I was spraying my cat's bedding and stuff with it thinking it was similar to a Raid product and the vet tech got a chuckle out of that. So in order for it to work properly, it has to cling to and be absorbed into the cat's flesh and be there when a bug bites them.
 
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