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Laurelin

Laurelin

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FLEAS!

Ugh. Any recommendations to get rid of them? Nothing I use ever seems to work.
 
Ash anything that works! I'm just so at a loss what to do that will keep them gone.

We tried Comfortis last year but it made half the paps start throwing up all over the place. :(
 
Dish soap bath? Salt water? Bandit had fleas and I took him to the beach to go swimming. No more fleas after. It's also how I got rid of having head lice.... dont know if it actually works or not but it worked over here.
 
Dawn and DE works for us.... When I got desperate I applied revolution.
Our Mia says :nono: to your Mia :rofl1:
 
Lemon Joy Dish Soap

There is an all natural pet treatment at petsmart and petco...
Natural Defense...

Good luck
 
I hear yan, fleas are horrible here. We have a lot of ferile cats - not to mention deer and lots of other wildlife - that spread the fleas around. I used sentinel on Luna and frontline on my cat, plus I've been giving them garlic suppliments every day since February. I flea comb them every day - usually twice a day - and get dozens of fleas off them. Tommorow I'm giving Luna a bath, and then next week I'll give her Frontline too. It's so overwhelming, though, I feel like no matter how much I do it'll never be enough.

end rant.
 
I had good success with Vector 3D on the dogs and borax worked into the carpets and then vacuumed up.
 
I use Dawn to get rid of them, wait a day, and then use K9Advantix

Frontline has NEVER worked for us
 
Capstar to kill the ones on her now, then a treatment with something like Advantage or Frontline.

The bad part about Comfortis is that it can have a lot more side effects, since it's oral. Capstar can have side effects too, but it's short-lived. It only lasts a day or two, tops.

Remember, no baths within 24-48 hours before or after topical flea control, and get it on the skin, not the hair, when you apply the flea control.

Vacuum EVERYTHING, wash bedding if you can.

And most importantly...treat ALL the dogs/cats/rabbits/ferrrets in the house. Even if they don't appear to have fleas.
 
WE have the same problem... :( We vacuumed the rooms of the house twice a day, she has advantage on her, and the fleas seem to spring back from whatever we do in more numbers then before. I think they have mutated D:
 
Just about any bath where you get all of her wet and soapy (including her head, use baby shampoo on her head) will kill all living fleas.

If there are eggs on her, you'll need to use a bath that will kill those, too.

If this is a reoccurring problem....it's not that you're not getting the fleas off of her. It's that they're laying eggs in your carpet, behind your baseboard, etc.

You need to bomb, spray, or whatever your place, wash all your bedding and the dogs bedding, etc. I'd look into natural flea killers for the home.
 
I have no advice as thankfully none of our dogs have ever gotten them, but I hope you find a good solution and get them off poor Mia!
 
I know you said that some of the paps puked with Comfortis, but did you remember to make sure they ate a meal immediately before giving it to them? That's the only thing you have to watch with the pill, if you don't feed them right before or with the pill they tend to get sick.

The only problem I ever had was once I forgot to feed the girls before I gave them their pill. Upendi got sick, Mina did fine. Other than that we've had no side effects and it works great, which is nice because the fleas in our area seem to have built up an immunity to most topicals.
 
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