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My dog has fleas.
Xaquin
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Super fleas.
These fleas were the last fleas born under a red sun .... they hurtled through the cosmos to land on my dog that lives under a yellow sun. Now they have fantastic powers.
Such as the ability to withstand Frontline, Flea and Tick Shampoo, Fogging every room in my house, a full bath every other day, and coating every inch of my yard with Sevin.
HOW DO YOU GET RID OF FLEAS!?!?!
We vacuum every carpet in the house every other day. These creatures should have passed on to the choir invisible a moth ago!
ARGH!
These fleas were the last fleas born under a red sun .... they hurtled through the cosmos to land on my dog that lives under a yellow sun. Now they have fantastic powers.
Such as the ability to withstand Frontline, Flea and Tick Shampoo, Fogging every room in my house, a full bath every other day, and coating every inch of my yard with Sevin.
HOW DO YOU GET RID OF FLEAS!?!?!
We vacuum every carpet in the house every other day. These creatures should have passed on to the choir invisible a moth ago!
ARGH!
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we waited 3 days (like it said on the box).
2. How often the dog goes out, and where!
3. Furniture and/or clothing that might have eggs or adults on them!
...Are the other important factors!
Do your neighbors have dogs?
What kind of furniture do you have? What kind of carpets (deep shag or what)? After you vacuum, what do you do with the contents?
Fleas can hide any number of places and you can keep killing and rekilling them, but if the dog keeps walking back into fleaville, they just get another ride.
When you give the dog a bath (and I assume this is a real bath where the dog sits in the water with only the head above), do you notice a bunch of fleas in the water?
Do you get bitten by the fleas?
1: Southern MD in a fairly large neighborhood. Dogs in 3 of the 4 adjacent yards. All yards are fenced in though (not that it makes much difference)
2: 3 times a day usually for 10 minutes the first two and then an hour in the evening for play.
3: Clothing not so much. The dog lays on the couches (keeping him off is an exercise in futility) however, we wash the cushion covers and recently, we've even fogged the cushions stuffing while the covers we're in the dryer. The entire house is vacuumed (thankfully only 4 rooms have carpet) every other day.
4: ummmm not that I can think of off hand
1: just outside
2: yep 3 however, all of them are inside dogs (like ours) and only come out a few times during the day.
3: just couches
4: we give him showers because we have a detachable shower head. Get him all lathered up and then rinse. I've never noticed any fleas, but I just assume they head down the drain.
5: I've not noticed if I've ever been bitten. I suppose I may have been (do they leave a mark or anything).
Go to the vet. They will give your bundle of awesome doggness a pill that will kill all the fleas on him within thirty minutes. Afterwards, go give him a big ol' bath. If you can, have someone vacuum the entire house (furniture included) while you are bathing the dog. After he is all fresh and clean, apply a dose of Frontline or whatever kind of stuff you've got. Next, leave your dog locked in the bathroom and apply that powder stuff all over the carpet and furniture and vacuum again. And if at all possible, get everyone out and use foggers on EVERY room.
Still, even this might not work, but it's the best bet you got for taking care of them. Remember that Frontline or whatever you are using needs to be applied monthly. One dose won't do it. Keep applying it for 6 months and that is typically a long enough time to ensure that the fleas and their eggs are all gone from your puppy of love.
Hope this helps.
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When you frontline your dogs, do the fleas go away for awhile? How long til they come back?
Are you actually finding fleas on the animals, or are you saying there are fleas because they are scratching a lot and have raised welts?
Are the dogs elderly? They have a tougher time with fleas.
And are you applying the Frontline correctly (maximizing the amount that goes against the skin)? If it rolls off the fur it won't be very effective.
Fleas seem to have gotten tougher. We did a few treatments of Capstar (pill, not expensive) that's supposed to kill all adult fleas. Then with Frontline we upped the dosage (both our dogs are 50-60 lbs, but we use the 89-120+ lb dosage on each) and decreased the interval between treatments (3 weeks instead of 4). That seemed to do it for us. After 2 cycles on the 3 week interval we went back to 4 week interval, but stayed on the increased dosage.
sounds good.
not fun, but good hehe
I've been thinking about that Capstar stuff.
We do see the fleas on him, yes.
also try vacuming a lot more often, you want to get rid of any eggs or larvae in the carpet.
You might also want to talk to your neighbors and see what they’re doing about their dog’s fleas. There are drugs dogs can take that make female fleas sterile; if everybody starts using it the flea population will crash fast.
Our grass is pretty short (where it grows hehe)
I'd talk to our neighbors except they're all a bunch of dicks.
Consider giving him a full bath and let him sit in the water. You may have to push his tail down... they don't usually want to be submerged. It will drown the fleas in a couple of mintues, though. Make sure you clean his head in case any start running up his back to "higher ground". Same thing works for ticks, and is better than trying to pull them off... the tick's head can remain embedded if you just jerk the tick off and cause an infection.
Generally there will be little red welts where you get bitten and it will itch. Not as bad or as immediate as a mosquito bite, but you'll notice it. If you've never seen it before, it'd be like a little rash. It will usually be on your legs. They don't usually go up into your chest/arms unless you're laying on the carpet or unless you leave your clothes on the ground.
Have you had any neighbors move recently? I had a real bad problem one time when a neighbor who apparently had a dog who was never treated moved and all the fleas migrated because they were hungry.
If worse comes to worse, you can trim the dogs hair short, especially if he has a longer coat. This will expose the fleas and you can treat the trouble spots. Had to do this with a friend's Pyreneese. The dog loved the shorter coat, so now the dog stays trimmed. Looks a little odd, but the dog doesn't pant.
You may also consider just asking your neighbors if they have any problems with fleas. I'm afraid you could be doing a lot of work to fix your dog and he could just be bringing them back in every time he goes out. Especially if the "nest" is along the boundary of your neighbor's yard.
Yeah, but they probably hate fleas just as much as you do.