My puppy has fleas, any home remedies?

Question

I picked up my little Jack Russell puppy on friday and he has a few little friends of his own! I have bathed him, put on flea drops and comb him daily, but they still persist, any home remedies that I can try?

Answer 1

Best thing to do is take him to the vet and they will give you a treatment that will work!!

Answer 2

Fleas spend about 90% of the time off the dog. They are only on the dog to feed.
If you have applied flea drop do not put anything else on the dog.
Now it is time to treat your house.
If you have carpet fleas LOVE carpet and can live in it for years.
Get some spray made for the house and yard spray everything in the house all the carpet and furniture. Wash all the bedding and clothing the dog has been on. Treat everything.
You may have to treat the carpet more than once but keep after it as it will work. And keep using the monthly flea control.It does work. I have used it for years and not had fleas in at least 10 years. I have 3 large dogs in the house that are mine ans most times a foster also.

Answer 3

Go to your vet and get the flea killer drops from them. The ones that you can purchase from the store are more often than not flea repellant drops and, I found, wouldn't repel a flea if its life depended on it. Also, you will need to flea bomb your house and clean all bedding your puppy comes in contact with. Also, and this is so important, you will now need to worm your dog. Fleas, I found out when our cats brought home friends, eat tapeworm eggs. When your puppy gets bitten by a flea, its first reaction is to stratch and bite the area. Sometimes, they will ingest a flea and by association, the tapeworm egg as well. There is nothing more gross and unhealthy for your family than tapeworm. They grow inside the animal gut and drop more eggs out the back end of your pet. Again, speak to your vet about worming pills, but make sure they kill the Dipylidium caninum tapeworm! Our vet kept giving us the wrong type of worming medication for our cats and it wasn't until I did some research and had to request the right medication that our tapeworm problem went away for good!

Answer 4

Home remedy huh?? Okay, bathe him in Dawn dish soap, sounds kinda weird but it workd, just the normal blue kind, wet him down lather him up & let the lather soak on him for about 5-7 minutes then rinse him off....this will not kill eggs or prevent future fleas but it will him all the lil free loaders that are currently alive on your lil guy!! Also the flea drops you get at the grocery store are crap I reccommend getting Advantage or maybe Frontline from your vet but Id wait till the other stuff you put on has time to wear off, till then keep bathing at least once a week to kill any new fleas that have hatched...you dont want to re-dose your pooch w flea drops before its due for risk of overdosing & poisioning him!!! GOOD LUCK!!

Answer 5

Fleas don't live on your dog, they jump on to feed then jump off to breed in your carpets and his bed. Fleas also transmit tapeworm so he needs worming. Don't use stuff from the pet shop as its not suitable for pups. Fleas can be very serious for young animals and cause anaemia.
Don't mess about with home remedies, get drops you put on the skin on the back of his neck from the vet.
Hoover every day and hot wash his bedding once a week with no washing detergent or fabric conditioner. Give him a plastic wipe clean bed not a wicker basket.
Theres an electric flea trap you can get; they stick to it.

Answer 6

I know if you wash a cat with Irish Spring that kills the fleas but I'm not sure that it works on dogs as well. Just take him to the vet for a flea bath.

Answer 7

You have to make sure that you treat the house as well as the dog. If you are just killing the fleas on the dog it will never work, cos they will be living in your carpets and furniture too.
I would recommend getting a flea bomb and getting rid of the ones in the house too

Answer 8

Get some proper flea repellent from your vets, its stronger than the stuff you get off the shelf at the supermarket. Try one of those flea "bombs" for your house, when the fleas have finally disappeared, give your dog a daily odourless garlic tablet, aparently the fleas dont like the taste of garlic!!!

Answer 9

you need to treat the puppy and the house. The best stuff to get is from the vet for both the puppy and the house. You will need to treat all of the carpets, soft furnishings and dog bedding in your house. Basically every where the puppy goes. By treating the house you are killing the larvae and the eggs therefore breaking the infestation cycle.
I've just gone through this with my dog. I used tablets for my dog and a spray for the house.

Answer 10

try bathing him in a dog flea shampoo then use a conditioner for humans but one for sensitive skin if poss or one for dry and damaged hair so you dont dry his skin out, leave the conditioner on for a while after and brush him through with a comb then rinse this should stop the fleas gripping to the hairs and suffocate existing ones because of the thickness of the conditioner but won't stop them coming back

Answer 11

Vacuum your fabrics, all of them, and then sprinkle Borax on everything. (You can find borax in the laundry aisle. It's a whitening additive.) Re-apply the borax every time after you vacuum until the fleas get done dying.

The coarse grains of the borax powder rub holes in the fleas exoskeleton, causing them to dry up from the inside and die.