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pen · 08-08-2006, 09:25 PM

Your friend should wash her bedding with hot water and bleach and dry in the dryer in the highest setting possible. Get a good puppy shampoo and lather and rinse and lather and let it set on the puppy for 10 minutes. This will kill the fleas. comb the dog very well over the toilet with the lid and seat up and then flush clean with t.b cleaner ect. Then what we use is hartz. 4 in one spot on with growth inhibitor and egg killer. It works wonders. I would then spray or bomb the whole house with no doggies or people inside with a fogger with growth inhibitor also. Adams makes a wonderful spray on with the growth thing and use it to spray all the furniture and beds that doggie was on.
People cannot get fleas if they bathe or shower regularly but they can get tape worms as well as the dogs. All it takes is one flea and you can be infected.
I would get some prasaquantal tablets and follow the dosage and instructions to make sure that the puppy is clear of them , they do not always show up in the stool or a worm smear.
When puppy is inside I would put ortho seven dust all over the perimiter to the house and use a good spray on the grass...
we followed this and have no more fleas...we also were told to dose the spot on every two to three weeks depending on the amount of baths that our dogs had to have.

stedmansmommy · 08-08-2006, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Lacy's Mom

Here's a great link on fleas from a vet. Print it out and give it to your friend.

http://www.naturalhealthtechniques.c...a_control1.htm

Thanks! I will definitely do that

stedmansmommy · 08-08-2006, 09:45 PM

Thanks so much for all your help everyone. I did talk to her tonight and she said that our vet told her that it was most likely flea larvae. She lives out in the country and being in South TX with this VERY HOT and HUMID weather, it is almost impossible to get rid of all the fleas in your yard. Summer is just a killer and brings all the fleas! My dogs don't have them, but we live in town...and they are not NEAR as bad in town as they are out in the country. She wants to move, HAH!

Even the vet said that the dirt in the country is sooo different than the dirt is in town. The dirt in the cuntry is more of a "sand" type of dirt, and thats what the fleas thrive on!!

He said that he has been having SO many people complain about fleas lately, and most of them (or ALOT of them anyway..) live in the country. But anyhow, our vet told her about some stuff that he sells there (I cannot for the life of me remember what it's called) but it's a HUGE bottle of it (only size it comes in) and you mix it with (water I guess??? I have NO clue! I bet I am TOTALLY wrong here...lol) and can spray it on floors, carpet, bedding, couches/furniture, etc. However, it is $88 a bottle, but our vet said that he SWEARS that it will get rid of the fleas and that the fleas will be NO MORE!

So, that is what she is going to do. I hope like heck it works!! Because until little Ms. Kahlua is free of fleas, she can't play with her boyfriend Stedman

lol. Thanks again everyone for all your help - it was MUCH appreciated!!

stedmansmommy · 08-08-2006, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by pen

Your friend should wash her bedding with hot water and bleach and dry in the dryer in the highest setting possible. Get a good puppy shampoo and lather and rinse and lather and let it set on the puppy for 10 minutes. This will kill the fleas. comb the dog very well over the toilet with the lid and seat up and then flush clean with t.b cleaner ect. Then what we use is hartz. 4 in one spot on with growth inhibitor and egg killer. It works wonders. I would then spray or bomb the whole house with no doggies or people inside with a fogger with growth inhibitor also. Adams makes a wonderful spray on with the growth thing and use it to spray all the furniture and beds that doggie was on.
People cannot get fleas if they bathe or shower regularly but they can get tape worms as well as the dogs. All it takes is one flea and you can be infected.
I would get some prasaquantal tablets and follow the dosage and instructions to make sure that the puppy is clear of them , they do not always show up in the stool or a worm smear.
When puppy is inside I would put ortho seven dust all over the perimiter to the house and use a good spray on the grass...
we followed this and have no more fleas...we also were told to dose the spot on every two to three weeks depending on the amount of baths that our dogs had to have.

Thanks so much for all this great info! I am going to do the famous copy & paste and e-mail it to her right now!

lol. Thanks again!!

08-08-2006, 09:25 PM	#16
pen No Longer a Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: mi Posts: 11	Getting rid of fleas... Your friend should wash her bedding with hot water and bleach and dry in the dryer in the highest setting possible. Get a good puppy shampoo and lather and rinse and lather and let it set on the puppy for 10 minutes. This will kill the fleas. comb the dog very well over the toilet with the lid and seat up and then flush clean with t.b cleaner ect. Then what we use is hartz. 4 in one spot on with growth inhibitor and egg killer. It works wonders. I would then spray or bomb the whole house with no doggies or people inside with a fogger with growth inhibitor also. Adams makes a wonderful spray on with the growth thing and use it to spray all the furniture and beds that doggie was on. People cannot get fleas if they bathe or shower regularly but they can get tape worms as well as the dogs. All it takes is one flea and you can be infected. I would get some prasaquantal tablets and follow the dosage and instructions to make sure that the puppy is clear of them , they do not always show up in the stool or a worm smear. When puppy is inside I would put ortho seven dust all over the perimiter to the house and use a good spray on the grass... we followed this and have no more fleas...we also were told to dose the spot on every two to three weeks depending on the amount of baths that our dogs had to have.

08-08-2006, 09:45 PM	#18
stedmansmommy I Love My Lil' Punkin's Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Stedman and Tatum's World :) Posts: 13,816 Blog Entries: 4	Thanks so much for all of your help everyone! Thanks so much for all your help everyone. I did talk to her tonight and she said that our vet told her that it was most likely flea larvae. She lives out in the country and being in South TX with this VERY HOT and HUMID weather, it is almost impossible to get rid of all the fleas in your yard. Summer is just a killer and brings all the fleas! My dogs don't have them, but we live in town...and they are not NEAR as bad in town as they are out in the country. She wants to move, HAH! Even the vet said that the dirt in the country is sooo different than the dirt is in town. The dirt in the cuntry is more of a "sand" type of dirt, and thats what the fleas thrive on!! He said that he has been having SO many people complain about fleas lately, and most of them (or ALOT of them anyway..) live in the country. But anyhow, our vet told her about some stuff that he sells there (I cannot for the life of me remember what it's called) but it's a HUGE bottle of it (only size it comes in) and you mix it with (water I guess??? I have NO clue! I bet I am TOTALLY wrong here...lol) and can spray it on floors, carpet, bedding, couches/furniture, etc. However, it is $88 a bottle, but our vet said that he SWEARS that it will get rid of the fleas and that the fleas will be NO MORE! So, that is what she is going to do. I hope like heck it works!! Because until little Ms. Kahlua is free of fleas, she can't play with her boyfriend Stedman lol. Thanks again everyone for all your help - it was MUCH appreciated!! __________________ HO! HO! HO! Merry Christmas from Stedman, Tatum and myself!