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09-21-2007, 07:14 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Hanceville, AL
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| Fleas I was using Frontline and Cocoa still got fleas and now I'm using Advantix and I noticed a flea the other day and he scratches a lot. How do you get rid of fleas completely? Is it normal to see an occassional flea? |
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09-21-2007, 07:22 AM | #2 | |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Findlay, Ohio
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I am now having the same problem. Just found one on Winstin. I am using the Advantage Multi and I am wondering if this is normal. I hope someone can help us both.
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09-21-2007, 08:46 AM | #3 |
Piper & Sebastian Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: florida
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| It can take a couple of days for the flea medicine to work. You might have to treat your home, and the area that they go potty in.
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09-21-2007, 09:15 AM | #4 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: michigan
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| No you should not see fleas at all on your pet. Fontline is pretty good stuff too. You may have to treat your home. Does all your animals have flea control?
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09-21-2007, 09:20 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Findlay, Ohio
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| My big girls are fine. We just double checked them. Today, I have been checking Winstin every time he goes out to potty and I am catching them. He is not hardly scratching at all. It is just like one or two at the most. I thought that since they have to bite before they die that, that may be why we are seeing them.
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09-21-2007, 09:31 AM | #6 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Bathe her with dawn dishsoap that will kill the fleas
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09-21-2007, 09:45 AM | #7 |
Dogs Rule Cats Drool! Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Tennessee
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| put some apple cider vinger the natural stuff in there water, it kills them...I have a huge water bowl so I just put less than a cap full, you have to dilute it pretty good or they may not drink it...
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09-21-2007, 04:49 PM | #8 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Riverview, Florida
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| I have my lawn treated by Scotts lawn service and part of the package includes an insecticide... just happens to be the same formula as advantage. It dries quickly in the florida sun however, I don't let her out for 2 or 3 hrs. i like the vinegar idea! |
09-21-2007, 04:55 PM | #9 |
Aubrey's Mom Donating Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Georgia
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| I use revolution and bathe aubrey in minksheen, no fleas on him for a long time. And I use the same thing on dakota except bathe her in huggies baby shampoo. |
09-21-2007, 04:57 PM | #10 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: DFW, Texas
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| the flea meds work by killing fleas once they get on your dog - usually within a few hours. If all of your pets are not treated, one of them could have fleas and a flea might have gotten on her. Or if your dog was exposed to an environment that had fleas, such as going outside, she might have picked up a flea and the flea meds just haven't killed it yet. Unfortunately there are not any products that repel fleas from your dog...so fleas can still get on and bite before the flea meds kill them. The good thing about the flea meds though is it kills the flea before it can lay eggs so that they aren't able to reproduce.
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