Fleas
 

My dog has recently developed a flea problem when she had an encounter with the neighborhood mut. Anyone got a good flea med? I know frontline is pretty good, but its a little pricey.

good luck, I have been fightin fleas fot three months. I have bought sprays, dips, shampoo, colar and anything else and then I talked to a guy and he told me somthin crazy that worked. Some people may say not to do this but give it a lead shot between eyes and put it in the ground and your problem will go away.....hehe j/k. Go to the store and get Pine-sol and mix with water and dip your dog and the fleas will die and then take and wash with Don dish soap, sounds crazy but its the only thing that has worked to realy get them off the dog and the Don is supose to repel fles and skeeters. I sprayed my yard with Hi-Yield 32 from a feed store and its good for about any bug that moves but you will have to spray once a week for a few weeks and keep washin and dippin dog if you see fleas on it agin.

what about any kind of dish soap? looking to do this today cuz she won't shut up.

Sure try what you have but keep lookin her over as you wash to see if its killin them, I washed both of mine last night with Don and you could see them die and wash off. I talked to someone else that said deisel, just dont smoke if you do that

a Bath in the pine sol mix and then a bath with baby shampoo will kill them also

Dont know about don, but dawn dishwashing liquid will kill fleas instantly. Also adams flea spray works great, you can get it at the vet

Fleas or Dog:rolleyes:, figure mine have a few more chances and they become crab bait:cool:

The vet has some pills we give ours that work GREAT!!
When the flea bites the dog it dies.(the flea dies not the dog)
I'll find out the name and let you guys know.

use daen dish soap the skin renewal leave it on for about 5 minutes it works pretty good.

Don is Dawns twin:shaking:

AH:rotfl:

Twin Brother.... :-)

go to your local vet. get two pills one fights heartworms and acts like birth control for fleas called sentinel but it wont kill fleas immediately. Another pill called comfortis will kill them upon being bitten within an hour. I've yet to see a dog in my clinic on both of these with a flea on them. The baths will only help temporarily, the pills will last a month at a time.

Just gave her a bath with some palmolive dish soap. rolled her over and saw lots of dead fleas. will have to let her spend the night in her kennel inside and check her tomorrow.

That's it thanks Mutt!

Works great!

I'll bring her to the vet monday and get all this taken care of. Thanks mutt.

Iron man you can prolly go by and just pick some up if they know the weight and age...
Good luck I hate those little obamas!!! Sorry had too

I used to spray around my kennel with a clorox and water mix. It would take care of the little buggers for a while. Concentrate on getting them off the dog and then treat the area he usually stays before he goes back out there. If you dont take care of both it will be a constand fight.

This is exactly what I need to do. I'm cutting the grass around her kennel shorter than I normally would and I need to spray grass killer around the slab and then treat her area with some type of FLEA BE GONE stuff.

That confortis is great stuff!! Litteraly fleas falling like rain off a dog!!

Go to feed store and get somthin to spray, they have strong stuff thats keeps ticks, fleas, ants and many more things away I had HI-YIELD 32 and its some bad stuff

Don't know if this is the same pill, but my dogs are on a pill called Comfortis. It kills the fleas when they bite. They told me at my vet's office that fleas are EXCEPTIONALLY bad this year. Has to do with the lack of normal rainfall. I'm also spraying my yard with a poison with 38% permethrin, Hi Yield 38 I think is the name of it. Apparently I'm not spraying often enough, because they go away but come back. Guess I'll have to spray once a week. I've never seen fleas this bad before.

got to spray once a week to kill new hatch of eggs, you can also get somthin that makes eggs sterile when laid that mixes in with the hi-yield and it helps.

We used to sprinkle garlic powder in our dogs food. Never had any fleas. Guess they don"t like the smell. Also, if you know an exterminator or someone that can " hook you up", ask him for some Dursban. It's an insecticide that is not available unless you are licensed and bugs hate it. We spray our deerstands with it inside and out throughout the year and no spiders, wasp, nothing.

Heard a lot about the garlic thing also. I started putting garlic pills in my dogs food but they would just pick them out. Never thougt to use garlic powder though.

You are spraying enough to kill the fleas that are there. What's not happening for you is your neighbors aren't spraying at all more than likely. Fleas have been recorded to jump up to 60 feet in a single jump just imagine what they can accomplish in a whole day.

Hey muttmechanic, I put some frontline on my gfs dog about a week ago and he is still scratching. Is it not working or can it cause a skin irritation? What should I do so he stops scratching?

Do you see any fleas on him? If so then they are starting to notice a resistance to the active ingredient in frontline in some areas. I've had bad luck with the topical drugs so I've stopped using them completely. I was using a topical drug called vectra which you can only get at a vet and they wouldnt die even with that. So now I switched to the oral medications because there is no resistance that we have seen and there is less of a chance of user error. The only bad thing is that there aren't any oral medications that repel ticks.

If there isn't any fleas he may have a flea allergy and thats a whole different ballgame. Does he bite right above the base of his tail or chew at his front paws?

She's got em back again. I thought I killed a large % with the hour long repeated bath. I'm about to bring her to the vet and get her heartworm stuff, rabies vac and the yearly stuff. My truck is getting the mufflers changed right now so this will have to wait.

Your bath probably did kill a bunch of the adults. What the baths don't kill are all the eggs they laid in the house and/or yard. Same thing with the comfortis though. It will kill all the adults but it doesn't do anything about the eggs/larvae which is where the sentinel comes in.

Muttmechanic, my dog has done this before in the past but I would just bathe her and she would stop. After about two weeks without a bath, she would have a spot at the base of her tail that would stay wet. Does this mean she has a flea allergy? If so, what can be done?

:rolleyes::shaking:

20 yards? Negative, must have been a typo

I sprayed the hi-yield and am seein lots of dead bugs of all types layin around, I am gona respray this week but I am also goin to put the other poison that makes eggs sterile so no more rehatch and I also started the comfortis today next step is lead poison

You have to treat the total yard as well as the dog. Another option for the yard is to get you a bag or two of the ant/flea/tick granules and broadcast the whole yard. And do this application every 3 months or so.

I do 7dust in the yard.....it works well.....other prob is rats in my back building.....they keep the fleas in there. Can't seem to kill all the rats!!

Which one?
 

Which ones do you use. I bought some and they didn't seem to work well. I can't remember what brand it was. Was trying to get rid of fire ants.

If you fertilze your yard Scotts makes a weed-n-feed with ortomax in it that kills ants and fleas and alot more along with its pretty good on the yard

you can get just ortomax in a bag

As weedeater said orthomax is a good brand. I have tried basically all of the brands at some point. Bug-B-Gone, Eliminator, etc. Been broadcasting granules for many years. As for as fleas and ticks are concerned, we have not had an issue with fleas or ticks. Our dogs run free in our fenced in backyard. We have a lot of squirrels and sometimes some mice. Consistently keeping the fire ants at bay is an on going struggle.

My in-laws are north Louisiana rednecks and they have a bunch of foxhounds and they say the best thing to do AFTER you get all the dogs rid of fleas is to put out Borax (its dirt cheap and you can get it at any store) all in the yard. If your neighbors have fleas, you have to treat your entire yard, not just by the kennel. As said earlier, go to the vet and get a pill. After an hour or so, the dog will start acting crazy because the fleas are running all over him, it will rid the dog of fleas for a few days. This is when you have to attack the yard. After you rid em all, get the dog on good flea meds Good luck with em.

Treat my yard twice a year with TallStar. Keep my Terrier in the fenced yard away from the neighbors dogs. No flea problem. Intact the TallStar stop fleas, tics, spiders, fire ants, etc. Good Stuff.
Someone mention rats carrying fleas, we have plenty squirrels in our yard and I think those little Bast*** are carrying fleas.

Read my post after I hit "send" looks like I took spelling lessons from someone on this site :)
Typing on a smart phone ain't so easy at times.

talstar looks like some good stuff...where do you get yours?

I don't spell well but the smart phones can really make you look stupid, I love how it will tell you somthin is miss spelt then when you tell it to correct it desides its ok.

About the rats. Had someone tell me to put out Coke(soda pop) out where they can get to it and it will kill them. A rat can't throw up and it will kill them. Put some out over here and have no more rats. Maybe they found someone who gave them the real coke or mixed some VO in it and they went there.

Picked up some D-Flea from Sacs here in Gonzales. Its a spray and it must work cuz it says kills on contact and they had some dropping like well, like fleas.

Heart worm and flea med in one ...... $20 a month from vet my dog has never had a flea that I know of

Place called Pestop in BR. They have one in Metairie and maybe Lafayette

I tried the sentinal and advantix both don't work like comfortis. Also the good thing about the comfortis is it comes in tablet form instead of having that stuff on the dogs back.

6 ft. is what I meant musta hit the zero at the bottom of the key board. But even if a flea jumps 3 times from your neighbors yard they can be well in your yard which is what the point of the post was.