Flea control.....help!!!?

Question

I need some effective treatment ideas for getting rid of fleas in the yard (they are really bad), and for treating my dogs. Please tell me if you know of any, please nothing too expensive (I have 4 dogs, 2 inside and 2 yard dogs, so it has to be affordable). We have tried pretty much everything at Lowe's and Wal-Mart for the yard. I have tried pretty much every flea shampoo on the shelves. Thanks. Serious answers only, please no "I don't know, but good luck" answers. Home remedies welcomed.

Answer 1

LYME or lime can't spell for the yard. After you have treated your yard with flea and tick killer. sprinkle lime in the yard. fleas ticks even snakes don't like lyme. get this at a home and garden center or a feed store

Lavender oil for there beds. just sprinkle a drop and it will keep it out of their beds.

I use frontline or advantage they work about the same for me. it kills the fleas when they bite the dog

FLEA COLLAR VACUMN CLEANER. if you have a cannister vaccumn cleaner put the flea collar in the cannister when you vaccumn them up in the cannister it will kill the fleas instead of them finding a way out. I do not put flea collars on my pets though

Answer 2

I give this same speech hundreds of times a year.

You have to take a three pronged approach to get good flea control.

1. Treat your home. Use a product with a Insect Growth Regulator (IGR). Knockout is a good product we recommend. Vacuum. Dispose of the vacuum bag outside of your home... ideally on trash day so it is taken out right away. Vacuuming will cause any fleas in the pupa stage that are about to hatch to go ahead and hatch out, so you can kill them. The sprays or bombs will not kill fleas that are in the pupa stage, so you must treat again in three weeks and again three weeks later.

2, Treat your pets. If your dogs have short hair, a bottle of Frontline Spay would be an excellent choice. Cheaper than the drops, but just as effective. Follow the directions carefully and don't bathe two days before or after. If you cannot afford to frontline them regularly, consider purchasing some pig dip called Prolate, the ingredients are the same as Paramite dip, but you buy it by the gallon - much cheaper per treatment.

3. Treat your yard. I used the stuff from Lowes by Bayer - seems to have worked pretty well.

Good luck.

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Answer 3

I use Frontline it works really well but you can't bath the dogs two days before or two days after applying it salt does work but that's usually in houses here's the problem with treating outside, most fleas are from cats not from dogs or any other animals so if a cat comes into your yard ( it doesn't matter if you don't have a cat it can be from anywhere in your neighborhood) alls it takes is the one time for the fleas to get dropped off and start the egg laying... you have a choice of trying the salt or going to the vets office and seeing what they have also put your dogs on frontline it really works you can get it cheaper on www.forstersandsmith.com or on www.petmeds.com
good luck

Answer 4

There really aren't any cheap fixes here. You need the perscription medicine from the vet, or the problem is just going to get worse. You should baith the dogs, in very deep water, to try to drownd as many fleas as possible then give them some medecine, either the ones on the skin or the pills and that should take care of much of the problems, many of the fleas in the yard will die when they don't have the dogs to feed on.
This cost should be considered one of the upkeep costs on your dog, if you want to have 4 dogs you should budget for 4 doses of flea medicine every month.

Answer 5

There are several things I would recommend. The first would be to sprinkle boric acid powder in your yard. Also try building a small fire (if you can) in the area(s) where the fleas are worst. They will be attracted by the heat of the fire and actually jump into it. It's not an old wive's tale it's something my father used.

Visit an herb shop or pet store and buy cedar oil. You can dab it on your dogs with a cotton ball (tops of their feet, along their belly, along their backbone and behind each ear). It's a natural flea repellant. If your dogs wear nylon collars just apply a few spots of the oil to the collar directly.

Answer 6

Go to your vet, and get some Revolution for your dogs. It's a once a month treatment, you put it between your dog's shoulder blades. It's the only one that's waterproof, which is great if your dogs ever get in the rain.

Putting it on your dogs will also treat your yard... the fleas will bite the dogs, and die fast.... within 24 hours. No need to spray your yard.

Answer 7

The once-a-month pills for the dogs absolutely will keep fleas off the dogs. And if the fleas aren't on the dogs, who cares about fleas in the yard.

Answer 8

a touch boy had a flea as a puppy and despatched six months training it to take a seat up and beg and roll over on command. He placed the flea interior the midst of his table in his room and reported as his dad as a lot as seem at his puppy, yet did not tell him what it changed into. His dad got here to his room to work out what the boy needed. The boy suggested "i favor to illustrate you some thing particular!" His dad regarded around the room and reported a malicious program on the lads table and smashed it with the palm of his hand. "Damned malicious program! Now what's it son?"

Answer 9

Burnt Lime . You can generally get it at any farm supply place.
Dust it all over your yard, and then wash and dust your pets in it. If you have them in the house, just put some in a jar lid and put it throughout your house. That should do the trick.

Answer 10

I don't know, but good luck

BUT SERIOUSLY, MY GIRLFRIENDS CATS GOT FLEAS AND HER MOTHER TOLD HER TO PUT DAWN DISH WASHING LIQUID IN THE KITCHEN SINK WITH WATER. SUPPOSEDLY THE FLEAS ARE ATTRACTED TO IT AND THEY'LL DROWN. SHE SAYS IT WORKED FOR HER.