Need flea help! Traveling
 

I'm traveling a lot with my two girls, trying to relocate. We've been on the move since February with no problems. Well, this morning, I went to rub Ally and she had little dirt patches on her. I brought her closer to the light and yep, she has fleas!!!!! My girls have never had fleas. They were on Sentinel, but the Vet just switched them to Iverhart Plus 3 months ago. Is this the problem? Does it not protect against fleas too? (Their last bath was Sunday afternoon with no issues. We started traveling Monday.) I immediately put Frontline on them. I know I can't bath them, then put it on. Their hair has to dry for a couple of days. If I bath them first, the fleas could be on the carpet in this hotel and just jump back on! I have an appointment this morning, so my plan is this....I go to PetCo after and look for flea shampoo and flea spray for the carpet. Spray the carpet and give them a bath.

I know I should be this upset over fleas, but this really bothers me. Please, any suggestions would be great...to help keep my babies safe and healthy!

Capstar?

Avon skin so soft bath oil is a flea repellent, dilute with water and spray on

This sounds interesting! Have you tried it before? Any possible side effects? What about 'delicate skin'?
If I was staying in hotel, I would probably give Capstar, too.

Ok, I couldn't stand the thought of them being on my girls anymore so I ran to PetCo....just as they were unlocking the doors......(I have a job interview in less than an hour too!!!) I purchased Capstar, Natural Chemistry DeFlea Pet & Bedding Spray, and Sentry Natural Defense Natural Flea Shampoo for Dogs and Puppies. I sprayed my car as I went into the hotel....so it would be dry by the time I left for my interview. (I'm in the south////hot.) I then sprayed the girls with the spray stuff, gave them a Capstar, put the girls in the tub, sprayed all bedding, including mine, sprayed carpet, and washed the girls. I left the shampoo on for a few minutes, then rinsed. I always put Paul Mitchell Super Skinny (it's a miracle detangler for Ally) on the girls to help control tangles and matts, so I put that on and then toweled dry and did an 80% blowdry. Poor Ally's topknot was bleeding from the fleas!!!! Lots of dead fleas in the tub too! I feel so bad. I comb these girls daily and did not notice anything until this morning!!!! Bad mommie....bad mommie! I will let you know how it works. I feel so so so so bad that I have to leave in a few minutes. Tia has curled up on her bed, but Ally doesn't want to touch it because it was sprayed. It's not a bad smell, but it does have a little odor. I need a job, but I don't want to leave them......

I am so sorry you are going through this :( We had a flea infestation a couple years ago and it was miserable. I felt like I was a horrible mommy, but my pups didn't even seem to notice the fleas. Just stay on top of it... Bathe them with Dawn dish detergent. You have to drown those fleas! I would fill the tub up to their necks and scrub, scrub, scrub. We finally got rid of them and haven't seen fleas since... Good luck finding a job! I will be thinking about you.

Thanks.

Just an update. I sprayed the carpet four times within the first two days. I just finished spraying again. Basically everything in this room was sprayed, even my bed! The girls had two baths the first day. I gave them one before they went to bed the first night and fleas were washed down the drain. Not sure if they were dead or not, but I thought with the girls being sprayed, washed, given Frontline and Capstar...all of them should be dead. I did have the cleaning people vacuum the room also. I did the water thing and only found one dead flea in there. I also got a lint roller and rolled all over the girls and the carpet and didn't find a thing. Well, this all started Wednesday and today's Sunday. I just finished giving them a bath and when I had Tia on the white towel, a saw a live flea. Got it and killed it. I've been looking closely at them to monitor if I see any and haven't found any. (Very difficult to find on a puppy-cut cotton coat and a long silky coat!) I did have a couple of bites on my legs, but not sure if it was from fleas or not. Capstar said it was safe to give them another dose if fleas remained, so I just did. I fed them chicken so it wouldn't upset their tummy. Ally doesn't do well on this kind of stuff.

how long will you be in the motel, try some diatamaceous earth spelling is wrong keep it down for a little while, and vacum it up best and safest for something short term, ifm they are in their cocoon stage the spray will not affect them at all

I plan on leaving within the next four days. I have had dogs for many, many years and have never had fleas....so no clue if there are any in their little cocoon stage. I don't see anything, but that's not saying they are not there. I will keep spraying every other day or so. I guess I need to have the cleaning people vacuum again????? I would think that the Capstar would kill the ones that get on the girls now....right? It should work for at least a month.

I've read that the cocoon ones hide themselves in the carpet and open up when they feel that warm dog walk by and jump. This really freaks me out, knowing that it could be a while. I only wish I had a vacuum or carpet shampooer in my car! Won't fit! I would have to empty out my car to take it to a car wash for someone to wash/shampoo it too. (I'm short and the seat is way up.)

We'll survive! We'll have fleas....but we'll survive. I guess I can just say I have chicken pox (bites)!

I have my little one on Trifexis and when we went to florida last year and stayed 8 days in a dog friendly, carpeted house on the beach, I never saw a single flea or sand flea on Huey or on either of us. Of course, I never saw any in the house, either, but he spent a good bit of time on the beach, and I was told the sand fleas were bad.

really!!!

Which Dawn because I did this last year and they broke out in bumps

This is all my fault though. When the vet changed my girls' heartworm medication, she failed to notify me and I failed to ask if it helps with fleas too. It doesn't, so my girls have had no protection in a few months. I do remember putting some Frontline on them when I traveled about four weeks ago. It was only when we woke up last week that I noticed them on the girls. Bad mommy!!!!

Cali and I often travel a lot and in a lot of hotels. I carry Capstar in her travel kit always.