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10-05-2010, 08:29 AM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Los Angeles
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| can't get rid of these fleas! i'm so frustrated! i can't seem to get the flea infestation under control. i've used advantage, frontline and just recently comfortis. i've been giving them the monthly treatments, but just last night, i found two fleas on my dogs. i have hardwood floors in my apt. i mop the floor every weekend, as well as wash and dry the bedsheets. someone please help me.
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10-05-2010, 09:28 AM | #2 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Gridley, Ca, USA
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| Call a pest control company. For less than the price of the Frontline they should take care of the problem, and keep in taken care of. |
10-06-2010, 02:42 PM | #3 |
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| try lemon water take 6 lemons and cut them in quarters then boil them about an hour and let them steep over night take out the lemon rinds and the seeds and the pulp and use this to wash your floors and you can even use it as a flea dip for your dogs i think it is very good way to help with a flea infestation but some people have said they did not like it
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10-06-2010, 06:32 PM | #4 |
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| You need to vacuum. Keep doing the treatments on your dogs but vacuum everyday on whatever you can. |
10-06-2010, 06:37 PM | #5 |
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| This is an "old wives tale" that my MIL says works. Take a white bowl, fill it full of water, put it in the middle of the room. She says the fleas will jump into the white bowl. In our other house, we had a flea problem. Believe it or not, there were fleas in the bowl when we got up the next day. I don't know if it will rid the whole problem or not. May not work at all for someone else. Just thought I would mention it. I didn't believe her at all; however, I am rethinking some of the stuff shes told me.
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10-07-2010, 12:07 AM | #6 |
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| Have you tried Revolution? My vet recommended this and it was the only thing that worked after months of struggling with a flea problem. It's important to know that fleas don't stay on your dog, they like to settled in dark cracks in your floors, etc. They lay their eggs there and then these will reinfest your dog when they are adults. If you can find diatomaceous earth, sprinkle it on your floors. It's a fine powder and although it smells bad, it kills the fleas and you can vacuum it up afterwards. Otherwise, get a pesticide (I tried Fendona, but hate using pesticides) and spray your house, garden and all your furniture with it. Wait until the moisture evaporates and then vacuum. You can also sprinkle diatomaceous earth on your dogs, but I personally think it makes my dogs smell very bad (like very smelly dogs, lol). Once you have gotten rid of the fleas, keep maintaining the status quo by spraying a eucalyptus or tea tree oil and water mixture all around your house. You can also add these oil to your dog's shampoo and conditioner. I hope that helps
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10-07-2010, 06:25 AM | #7 |
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| lol, very diverse suggestions. Assuming that you have used these meds long term, every month, and they still aren't working (and you have vacuumed, done all the laundry, possilby used boric acid on the carpets, etc.), then: Frontline is becoming resistant. There is a new protocol that is in its beginning stages. It is Sentinel once monthly (or just plain Program, the ingredient in Sentinel that regulates flea growth), and Capstar once weekly for a mild infestation and twice weekly for a severe infestation. I'm neither here nor there about this protocol yet, but that it is.
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10-08-2010, 03:11 PM | #8 |
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| thanks everyone for your suggestions! i will take them all into consideration. i'm willing to try anything and everything!
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