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defiantbadgirl -> RE: Fleas (5/8/2012 6:52:48 PM)
We now use a monthly pill we got from our vet called Trifexis. It kills fleas and prevents heartworms. Our house was flea infested once. We called in professional exterminators and they had to come back and spray a second time. Fleas are resistant to so much now.

LafayetteLady -> RE: Fleas (5/8/2012 6:58:21 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MasterG2kTR If you can still get them....go to the vet and get a couple of "Bug Bombs". The number needed is based on the size of your house. These things work great! One treatment and you're done. You start them and simply leave the house for two or three hours. That will often leave the eggs still able to hatch in a couple of days, so a second treatment is needed.

LafayetteLady -> RE: Fleas (5/8/2012 7:02:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze I gave mine garlic pills for a while, but my vet told me that it's actually really bad for dogs when given regularly, checked up on it and it's true, I guess the amount depends on the size of the dog, but I'd rather not take risks with the furry kids Your quote also states it would take large amounts to be harmful to dogs. In any case, we gave the Brewer's yeast with garlic to our dogs and cat for years with no problems. At one point, I had 3 dogs and one cat and they would all line up at the shake of the bottle to get their "treat." Ran out once, within a couple of days had a flea problem. My animals (except for one, unrelated to the Brewer's yeast and garlic) lived to be ridiculously old, so it apparently had no effect on them.

LadyConstanze -> RE: Fleas (5/8/2012 7:06:12 PM)
Well, congratulations that your animals survived, after a warning from my vet and reading up on it, I personally do not want to take the risk with my animals. I mean I have a few family members who got ridiculously old despite smoking, doesn't mean I need to take it up. As for large amounts - what might be a small amount for you and me could be a large amount for a dog. Sorry, but I tend to trust a vet's advise over an internet poster.

LafayetteLady -> RE: Fleas (5/8/2012 7:08:14 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze Well, congratulations that your animals survived, after a warning from my vet and reading up on it, I personally do not want to take the risk with my animals. I mean I have a few family members who got ridiculously old despite smoking, doesn't mean I need to take it up. As for large amounts - what might be a small amount for you and me could be a large amount for a dog. Sorry, but I tend to trust a vet's advise over an internet poster. I wasn't recommending you give it to your dogs. And actually, it was our vet who recommended it, so we were trusting our vet at that time as well.

LadyConstanze -> RE: Fleas (5/8/2012 11:08:21 PM)
I brought it up with my vet, and she told me that garlic can be toxic to dogs and that for a long time it was recommended as a flea treatment but studies have shown that a lot of dogs get very sick or can die from it, reason enough to stop it immediately, because I don't know how well they will cope with it. Almost everybody knows that chocolate is toxic for dogs, I also know people who give their dogs chocolate as "the dog doesn't seem to suffer from it", while a lot of their bodies are very similar to humans, their digestive systems are very different and some things are extremely dangerous, and they don't always have an immediate effect. One of mine is the poster boy for odd reactions to medication, so I really don't want to go by trial and error - especially when an error could be fatal. When it comes to the pet's health, I'm about 10 times more careful than I am with mine, I have a choice and I can figure out what is dangerous and what not, the pets can't, they trust me to make that choice...

kallisto -> RE: Fleas (5/9/2012 5:07:35 PM)
This is off the wall for sure and I just came about it by accident, but when all the kids and animals were still living at home, the little dog would gets fleas once in a blue moon and not the big dogs. We would put the little dog in the swimming pool. She loved to get it anyway so it was easy to get her in. She would swim around a little bit, get out on the deck and the fleas would drop off her. We never had fleas in the house and the yard didn't seem to be infested, but she somehow would get them once in a while. I'm certainly not recommending it, just commenting on what worked for her.

Buzzzz -> RE: Fleas (5/9/2012 6:19:32 PM)
Imidacloprid is the stuff that kills them. I buy it from eBay. Search for "dominion 2L". I cc once a month applied to the skin and voila!! It cost maybe 5 cents a month as the bottle is 27.5 ounces and it is in the $30 range.

LookieNoNookie -> RE: Fleas (5/9/2012 8:02:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam Trying to figure out how to kill the little fuckers. My small auxiliary dog is a flea magnet. The large main dog only gets one every month or so. Ive tried dips, flea shampoo, frontline, spraying the yard, flea powder, etc, etc, etc. I mean he's literally got bunches of them 3 days after I put frontline on him. Gawd...this is so easy I can't believe it's even being posted. Okay...here's how you do it: You set the animal on a opaque (not see through) white glass plate. You pet the animal backwards. When the fleas land on the glass plate you use a squeegee and push the little fleas to one side....preferably onto a concrete floor or a piece of wood. You take a hammer and smash all the little fleas. Continue this process until no more fleas land on the glass.

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