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Posted: 8/14/2011 12:00:06 AM EDT
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Go to your local pet store and buy a month's worth of flea and tick treatment. The oil you buy in little packets, applied in between the shoulder blades, is what I would do.
At least it ain't abcessed anal glands, for the second month in a row. At $119 per treatment, the free pup in my avatar is costing me far too much. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 12:00:22 AM EDT
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What flea control are you using?
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Posted: 8/14/2011 12:05:16 AM EDT
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What flea control are you using? Frontline |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 12:06:34 AM EDT
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Go to your local pet store and buy a month's worth of flea and tick treatment. The oil you buy in little packets, applied in between the shoulder blades, is what I would do. At least it ain't abcessed anal glands, for the second month in a row. At $119 per treatment, the free pup in my avatar is costing me far too much. he gets monthly frontline every month. its the oil that goes between the shoulder blades. as to how he got it in the first place, a friend of mine who is a vet said that this year has been notably bad with fleas, and to start giving the dose every 3 weeks instead of 4 weeks. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 12:08:13 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: What flea control are you using? Frontline Fleas have been especially bad this year (atleast around these parts) Everyone I know has had issues. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 12:22:56 AM EDT
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spray the yard down.
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Posted: 8/14/2011 12:29:02 AM EDT
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spray the yard down. I live in an apt |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 12:33:46 AM EDT
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Comfortis works well. You can get it a the Vet. It is a chewable tablet. Kills the fleas as they bite the dog.
For a quick kill try Adams flea spray. Adams wont kill the eggs but it kills fleas on conact, and it smells good. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 1:18:30 AM EDT
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my brother runs our family's pest control business, he said that the best thing to do is vacuum the house just before the pest control guys arrive, supposedly the noise from the vacuum causes the eggs to hatch. He sprayed my yard three times this year and I finished cutting the yard as he pulled up to spray it two weeks ago, since then I have not noticed them on any of my dogs. Also, you may want to have pest guys add an IGR (Insect Growth Regulator) to their spray. This will cause the fleas that do hatch from eggs to not be able to reach maturity and reproduce, so shortly your problem will be gone.
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Posted: 8/14/2011 1:27:37 AM EDT
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3 oz to the gallon. 2 oz if it's a young pup. Do not use on pups < 12 weeks old. Mix with warm water. Wet the dog down with water. Let him shake it off. Apply with nozzle starting around the neck, down the back and tail. Do the shoulders , sides and flanks. Roll the dog over and do the belly and pits. Let dry. I do it with the nozzle against the skin, under the undercoat. Use the excess on the kennel. Repeat in a month. Do not use this on cats. Okie flea dip makes for happy, itch free dogs! 
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Posted: 8/14/2011 1:46:00 AM EDT
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Fleas, your dog does not get fleas, it's entire living area gets fleas.
You need to flea dip / wash the dog, then you need to apply flea killer to EVERY PLACE the dog has been. You don't do this once, you have to do it repeatedly. You need to kill the adult fleas, the flea eggs and the flea larvae. You kill the adult fleas, but don't follow up then you get fleas again when the larvae develop and when the eggs hatch. You're looking at flea control for at least two months. You live in an apartment? If your neighbors pets have fleas you're fucked until your neighbors control their pets fleas. Google has a lot of great info on how to kill fleas and control the problem. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 3:11:50 AM EDT
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Comfortis works well. You can get it a the Vet. It is a chewable tablet. Kills the fleas as they bite the dog. For a quick kill try Adams flea spray. Adams wont kill the eggs but it kills fleas on conact, and it smells good. My fiance has a black lab and was using front line. The fleas are building a resistance to it. The Vet had her get Comfortis and it has been AMAZING. That should do the trick on your dog...not sure about the house! |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 3:15:14 AM EDT
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Quoted: Comfortis works well. You can get it a the Vet. It is a chewable tablet. Kills the fleas as they bite the dog. For a quick kill try Adams flea spray. Adams wont kill the eggs but it kills fleas on conact, and it smells good. Isn't Comfortis the pill that kills fleas within 40 minutes? I thought that was a godsend, until I asked my vet about it...it only works for 24 hours. Which would explain why they give it to animals with fleas that come in for vet services. Big, fat +1 on fleas being uber-bad this year. My vet has been telling me the same thing. We've never had a problem with our dogs in the past. 6 years without a single flea. This year, we can NOT keep the fleas off the dogs. Advantix II treatment monthly, washing the bedding, I've sprayed the yard with liquid spray, treated it with the granules, etc. It just appears to be an impossible battle this year. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 3:22:45 AM EDT
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Quoted: My fiance has a black lab and was using front line. The fleas are building a resistance to it. The Vet had her get Comfortis and it has been AMAZING. That should do the trick on your dog...not sure about the house! Our dogs have used Frontline since '06. This year, it just seemed to be completely ineffective. Our vet stated that she was running into this with a -lot- of the Frontline users. As a result, she switched to Advantix, and I must say, it is working much better. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 4:04:41 AM EDT
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I have heard good things about comfortis.
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Posted: 8/14/2011 4:16:16 AM EDT
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Adams flea and tick shampoo followed with Frontline. It's what I've used on my dog for the last 6-7 years and it works. I'm doing Frontline every other month. I've always used Adams products. Also don't let your dog around other dogs. Are you the one bringing the fleas in from another source?
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Posted: 8/14/2011 4:30:44 AM EDT
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K9 Advantix.
I've used it on my dog since she was old enough, three years ago, and I've never found a single flea. Kharn |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 4:44:08 AM EDT
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Try Comfortis for a few months. Upon initial ingestion of the pill, you will see dead fleas dropping off the dog.
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Posted: 8/14/2011 4:53:40 AM EDT
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Revolution is absolutely the best topical flea, tick, tapeworm, ringworm, earmite product we've used for our pets.
We'd used Frontline for years but it became ineffective so our vet switched us to Revolution. Link: http://www.revolutionpet.com/revolutionpet.aspx ETA It starts working immediately. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 5:09:35 AM EDT
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Oh, and don't forget, after you have eliminated the fleas, you must get the 2 doses of anti tape worm meds from your Vet. Fleas carry tapes to your dog. :(
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Posted: 8/14/2011 5:23:01 AM EDT
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http://www.jedds.com/catalog/pre.jpg + http://homeharvest.com/homeharvest2000pics/FloMaster1GalPumpSprayer.jpg 3 oz to the gallon. 2 oz if it's a young pup. Do not use on pups < 12 weeks old. Mix with warm water. Wet the dog down with water. Let him shake it off. Apply with nozzle starting around the neck, down the back and tail. Do the shoulders , sides and flanks. Roll the dog over and do the belly and pits. Let dry. I do it with the nozzle against the skin, under the undercoat. Use the excess on the kennel. Repeat in a month. Do not use this on cats. Okie flea dip makes for happy, itch free dogs! http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/7070/p1010063kl.jpg Fleas can be tough to control and this is the only sure-fire method I've found to get rid of them totally. I tell people to do this and they give me the  look.
Pine needle and cedar bedding helps, but cedar messes with their ability to smell. Spraying kennels with bleach helps. Once you get them under control, it gets easier. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 6:20:04 AM EDT
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Frontline works by inhibiting flea reproduction. Once the current ones die off, the eggs still hatch and those neutered fleas gotta die off too. The bigger problem may be the fact that around your apartment there are living, fertile fleas that keep jumping onto your dog even if the meds are working. You gotta kill source.
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Posted: 8/14/2011 7:36:49 AM EDT
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What flea control are you using? Frontline Well there's part of your problem Fleas have to bite multiple times for Frontlint to start killing them off Take your dog to the vet and ask about comfortis or Trifexis. Both kill the fleas in one bite, last a month, and start working immediately |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 7:43:22 AM EDT
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Go to your local pet store and buy a month's worth of flea and tick treatment. The oil you buy in little packets, applied in between the shoulder blades, is what I would do. At least it ain't abcessed anal glands, for the second month in a row. At $119 per treatment, the free pup in my avatar is costing me far too much. You can home treat them for almost nothing. One of my dogs got a nasty abscessed anal glad, it was about the size of a quarter (8lb dog so it looked HUGE). After some research we found that a butt soak in fairly warm epsom salt water will open it up allowing it to discharge on its own. After 5 min of having him sit in a tub of the water it released, it was nasty as hell but a 5-10 min soak 2-3 times a day for 2 weeks healed it 100% with no vet bills and a year later he's still healthy and fine. Also, to prevent it from happeneing again try adding some dry oatmeal into his food. The main reason the glads get abscessed is modern food dosen't make thier poop firm enough. Those glads are meant to secrete when they poop. If the poop is too soft it wont put enough side pressure on the gland opening alloing it to squirt out, it then builds up and becomess abscessed. After our incident all 3 dogs get dry oatmeal in thier food once a day, it does the same thing it does for humans, just provides fiber to firm the stool up. Metamucel is supposed to work also but the oatmeal is super cheap insurance. If your puppy has loose poop or diahrea semi often I can almost 100% guanrantee adding the fiber into his diet will stop the gland problem. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 7:51:25 AM EDT
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We've had our dog for 4 years now and never had any issues with fleas until this year.
We've found a few on her and only have found 1 around the house. Again we've never had an issue before. We haven't seen any on her in a few weeks but she seems itchy still. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 7:52:18 AM EDT
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maybe you're giving him fleas?
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Posted: 8/14/2011 8:04:25 AM EDT
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have you sprayed the lawn?
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Posted: 8/14/2011 8:16:42 AM EDT
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We always used the flea and tick treatments like Revolution, frontline, etc. I switched to the cheaper heartz and walmart brands and they still worked great. The expensive ones require vet visits and perscriptions due to the heartworm treatment. The over the counter meds run $14 to $20 for 3 months. Even if your house has fleas, you put this on the dogs and the fleas will jump on them and die.
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Posted: 8/14/2011 8:20:28 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Comfortis works well. You can get it a the Vet. It is a chewable tablet. Kills the fleas as they bite the dog. For a quick kill try Adams flea spray. Adams wont kill the eggs but it kills fleas on conact, and it smells good. Isn't Comfortis the pill that kills fleas within 40 minutes? I thought that was a godsend, until I asked my vet about it...it only works for 24 hours. Which would explain why they give it to animals with fleas that come in for vet services. Big, fat +1 on fleas being uber-bad this year. My vet has been telling me the same thing. We've never had a problem with our dogs in the past. 6 years without a single flea. This year, we can NOT keep the fleas off the dogs. Advantix II treatment monthly, washing the bedding, I've sprayed the yard with liquid spray, treated it with the granules, etc. It just appears to be an impossible battle this year. Comfortis works for a month or more. You're thinking about Capstar, it only works for 24 hours. We give that to the cats (3 cats) to get ride of fleas. We used Comfortis on our dogs (we have four dogs now) for well over three years now. Have not found a flea on one of the dogs or in the house!! After the fist 3 or 4 months of the taking it they weren't getting any fleas so we started skipping a month or two beteewn doses. Still no fleas. Now we just keep the pills on hand and give them one if we see a flea. Still haven't seen any. My son just moved in with his dog (fourth dog in the house). We gave him a Comfortis pill to give his dog a few days before he moved in. Haven't see one flea on her. Comfortis is the way to go. It costs a little more, but it WORKS!!!!  |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 8:21:34 AM EDT
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Wash him in Dawn dish soap to kill fleas instantly. Then treat him with the meds. Also put water in a bowl with Dawn dish soap around the house and the fleas will hop in and die.
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Posted: 8/14/2011 8:26:31 AM EDT
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Our new dog was infested the only thing that worked was the comfortis.We could see dead fleas within an hour.It has worked very well.Also as everyone has stated the vet said this year has been one of the worst years he has seen for fleas.
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Posted: 8/14/2011 8:28:56 AM EDT
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Buy some Advantix II, apply per directions monthly. Flea problem solved.....
Note, Advantix is poisonous to cats, if you have those around go with Advantage. |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 10:34:22 AM EDT
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Comfortis
The shit works! /thread |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 10:42:18 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Comfortis works well. You can get it a the Vet. It is a chewable tablet. Kills the fleas as they bite the dog. For a quick kill try Adams flea spray. Adams wont kill the eggs but it kills fleas on conact, and it smells good. Isn't Comfortis the pill that kills fleas within 40 minutes? I thought that was a godsend, until I asked my vet about it...it only works for 24 hours. Which would explain why they give it to animals with fleas that come in for vet services. Big, fat +1 on fleas being uber-bad this year. My vet has been telling me the same thing. We've never had a problem with our dogs in the past. 6 years without a single flea. This year, we can NOT keep the fleas off the dogs. Advantix II treatment monthly, washing the bedding, I've sprayed the yard with liquid spray, treated it with the granules, etc. It just appears to be an impossible battle this year. Comfortis lasts 30 days. It starts to work in about 30 minutes. http://www.comfortis4dogs.com/about-comfortis/default.aspx |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 10:45:09 AM EDT
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if you live in a house, and have squirrels in your yard, i guarantee you they are bringing fleas to your dogs. squirrels are notorious flea bags. i kill every one i see in my yard and my brother's yard.
-tom |
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Posted: 8/14/2011 10:50:22 AM EDT
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The flea pills are amazing. We used them on the cat, and the fleas literally fell off within an hour in the carrier, never to return.
I can't remember what brand, but as far as I know, it's the only flea pill on the market. |
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