Fleas - help a first timer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here - appreciate all the advice. I didn’t get the cap star but regret it because we just found one new/live tick in her ear. I am going to call vet tomorrow if we find anymore. We cleaned everything, put towels on furniture to wash at night and everything but clearly we missed something

Your vet can give the dog Comfortis, a one-time pill that eliminates fleas. You will still need to bomb and vacuum though.

https://www.comfortis.com/about-comfortis

Get on this right away because it does and will get worse, left unattended.

[Anonymous]

You have to vacuum every day. Eggs hatch and keep the cycle going.
The vets alao sell Knockout which will kill eggs.
Good luck. I think I vacuumed two weeks daily on top of washing everything in hot water.

[Anonymous]

It’s 2018 & now I have this problem ...

I gave capstar to dog & still saw fleas

We bought the bombing for the house


What is the best process to take to wash bedding?
And when to clean the house ... before & after?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you bathe your pet in a dish soap, it will remove the flea medication because it strips the hair follicles of the grease layer that holds the chemical in the follicle. Use shampoo, not dish detergent.

Use an oral product like bravecto or nexgard along with a topical product like activyl or K9advantixII. Frontline is becoming ineffective.

Vacuum house very day and throw away the bags. Wash bedding with bleach in the water. Vacuum hardwoods, baseboards, everywhere.

Make sure every pet in the house is treated.

Vet here. Done this before. Sometimes you need an exterminator.

This is why the vets recommend flea and tick medication year round. Good luck.

Underscoring this. If you keep the bag in the house, the fleas can just jump back out -- even if you put a flea collar in it, not all of them may be killed.

[Anonymous]

Start feeding your dog a high quality wet food. Also have her thyroid and general health fully checked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Start feeding your dog a high quality wet food. Also have her thyroid and general health fully checked.

Once we did this our dog never had fleas again and the next dog after that never had fleas - and we never used flea treatment for either. Ever - that’s a combined 36 years of no flea treatment and no fleas.
Reason being the flea treatment was giving our dog seizures so we stopped and changed things up.

[Anonymous]

Does Anyone do the oral flea/tick meds? Next-garc or Bravecto?

[Anonymous]

If you have carpets you will need to have them steam cleaned. If they are removable have it done on the driveway, both sides. If not, be sure they do a good job. It will also make your carpets look new. Don't do it yourself. Hire a truck mounted unit. Almost anyone is cheaper than Stanley Steemer.

[Anonymous]

Cover everything in diatomaceous earth.

[Anonymous]

Cover carpets in Mule Team Borax, let sit overnight, vacuume.
Vacuume everyday. Either put a flea collar in the vacuume bag or get rid of the bag.

Bathe dog in Dawn dish soap.

Repeat Borax in two weeks. It dries out the eggs. I sweep it into my hardwoods, let sit overnight, then vacuume up.
Wash all dog bedding, spray curtains and furniture with a flea killer.

Capstar pill, as well.