 skebe
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Posted: 8/4/2012 8:50:41 PM
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT The cat if on Frontline now for at least a month but this is the second time the cat has needed to be dipped. Our vet is recommending fogging the house, but I'm reading these horror stories of houses burning down, unplugging everything in the house, turning off the gas, wiping down any surface the cat may lay on (which is everywhere), etc. Has anyone here used them? What would you recommend? What do we need to be aware of? |
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Posted: 8/4/2012 10:19:03 PM
just follow the directions on the foggers.take the animals to the vet, go back home, set off the foggers. leave for the day. Have the vet treat your pets. When you return, air out the house. There will still be fleas, it takes several months to get rid of them.Frontline treat the animals monthly. When the pets have been treated, any flea that gets on them will die soon.There are unhatched eggs in the house though, so it takes a long time to break the cycle. We fogged 3 times in 2 weeks, had the cats and dog dipped 1st week, frontline treated the second.now, we have to let the fleas get on the pets so the frontline will kill them. Sometimes, foggers will make it appear worse right away after using them. The fleas will die,yet new ones will hatch and be very active immediatly. Frontline treatment is essential for the pets before they re-enter the house. Talk to your vet, this has been a bad year for fleas.
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Posted: 8/4/2012 10:22:26 PM
Get some Knockout ES from your Vet. Use according to directions.
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Posted: 8/6/2012 10:01:36 AM
I got sick of this same mess and put my dog on Comfortis. I have not had a single issue with fleas since.
Have you tried putting down borax overnight and letting that work to kill the fleas already in the house as well as the eggs? It's not a danger to pets. |
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Posted: 8/7/2012 3:35:00 PM
After more research it looks like she spend 95% of her time downstairs on the hardwood floor. I may find one flea, maybe, in other rooms, but I will find ten (mostly dead) on the hardwoord.
We just had the onslought spray treatment again and we'll get it again in another month. The cat is now a shorthair main coon (harder to hide fleas on her) and will have her 2nd dose of Frontline this weekend. One thing is my wife and two of my girls have asthma and the cat has asthma as well as being allergic to practically everything so chemicals are something we have to be very careful about. My wife found something about dusting the house with a mix of salt and baking soda to dryout any eggs, larva, and fleas. All you have to do is spread it out and brush it down into the carpets or into the cracks of the wooden floor. We'll try that and see how it goes for now before we move up into the heavy chemicals. I hate to hope for a hard winter, but my vet said that's probably the only thing that will really help in the long run. |
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