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Old 09-23-2009, 07:28 AM   #12
Weneebug
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The vet's office recommended "siphotrol plus" to treat my house with. Since I didn't really want to have to make another trip I just purchased what they recommended. (edited to add, this stuff claims to work for 7 months?!) I won't be using flea bombs, partly because I live in an apt & because I have a small animal who is not friendly. I've used them before, but its not something I want to resort to considering the situation. (If it gets really really bad I just might but I'd really like to avoid it.)

I had planned on treating the house since its well... simple irregardless! (Better to treat and not have an issue then to think I don't have one where I should have treated.) This situation just goes against every flea infestation I've seen, and that we had growing up fostering greyhounds. To me, its just.... two fleas? I had to do a drop off, so I don't know.... I question how likely those two fleas could be from my house, my lawn, the vet's lawn, off another dog/cat or one of the employees (who had no trouble admitting they bring fleas home! hehe)

I'm trying to make this a positive thing though (lol) since if its no where near as bad as what I dealt with many times growing up... if I have a flea problem it can't be a tremendous one. The vacuum thing may explain that though... since I normally vacuum at least a room every other day. If I do have a flea problem maybe thats what has been keeping the population down.

Weneebug, from a personal standpoint - I would never use flea shampoo. Its hard to really control how much pesticide they get exposed to and thats always concerned me. I am going to be using some head and shoulders on Winston (its what someone said they use and their vet recommended for fleas) since I have some in the house. Not sure how much help it will do but I figure it can't hurt. (I also used to do this years ago with my other yorkie Barry since he had sensitive skin, and strangely enough we never had fleas and I used nothing else.) I will have to keep in mind what you mention Yorkiedaze. Some yeast supplements may be in our future.

Dang economy .... if I hadn't been unemployed for 5 months I would have put him on comfortis and called it a day.
My husband thought if we had a flea problem that they would be jumping on us. I've only seen 2 on Harley and I didn't see them until after he had went to the groomer. I'm wondering if he got it from there. I bathed him with Dawn after I saw the first one but that didn't seem to do the trick because I found the 2nd one after that. I'm going ahead and treating the house because I don't want it to turn into a big problem.
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