[JadeD]

What are the black spots you mentioned?

Are they like black pieces of dirt on the dog in the fur and on their skin. If you get them wet like with a piece of kleenex do they turn a reddish color? This would be flea dander and would indicate you have at least one flea on the dog. The problem with looking up pics of fleas on the internet is that they magnify them and don't show you what a real life flea looks like. They can be brown or black in color and are thin and longer than they are wide. To kill one takes squeezing it until it is cut in half. I remove them with tweezers off the dog and squeeze them until I hear them crunch. If it is easy to kill then it isn't a flea. Flea's do jump, but mostly they crawl around on your pet. They prefer their private areas and their neck and throat and face area.

I wish I could help more. I have had some sort of flea issues over the years since I was a small child off and on so I know what flea's look like and the dander they leave on pets very well. When you see a flea online they blow it up so much that a flea on a dog does not look at all like the pictures you find online.