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Originally Posted by jenefor

Right about now I am soooo pissed at the neighbors....I have never had flea bites or probs with fleas and out pets since I was a kid( the neighbors had a dog with mange and other issues very sad....) anyhow at our new place (I say new but it has been 3 years) anyhow we have never had fleas and I like to think I keep a pretty clean house well we are in a duplex and share a back yard (but we keep Gidget and my son in the front to play (that way I know what is there and that) anyhow my son went in the back with his bike and left the gate open so Gidget followed him back and they played back there for a few mon....I figured it wuldnt hurt anything) WRONG.....I now have ankles covered in fleabites and I found one that day on Gidget....I killed and that didnt see her scratching so I figured everything was fine......now she is scratching and I have more bites now And the neighbors dont seem to mind either.......they are rather 1/2 assed anyhow but damn....how can you not tell or care that you have fleas? So now I have to deflea my house and im itching non stop......I was also wondering what is the safest flea control......I am going to have to go get some befoer we go bonkers....Gidget gets a bath every week so do products like frontline and that stay on with baths and water play? I know there was a thread a while back but i cant find it (or im just lame)

I haven't had a flea problem in years. We had one when we first moved in the house 11 years ago. What I did was I took our dogs with us and put everything up in cabinets and closets and sprayed the whole house with flea b gone I think it's by ortho. We closed the house up for a couple of hours giving it plently of time to dry and took the dogs and dropped them off and had them bathed and treated. I haven't had a problem since then, my dogs do go in & out our back yard is fenced in and plently of trees and weeds in the area that we don't use much. I keep frontline on them and bathe them every couple of weeks with flea shampoo and I don't have problems. My husband would most definately let me know if we did. The eat him alive.

Good Luck. Hope that you get rid of them soon.