fleeeeeas what can i do??

Question

ok i wash my dog with flea sampoo and use frontline on my dog but he still has fleas?? what can i do
any other thing i can use
or is garlic ok?? if it is how can i use it?

Answer 1

HI
the fleas maybe in his bedding so wash that and vaccuum your house. If it is real bad I have put flea powder on my carpet a little where the dog lays and this sometimes helps. I have found that if I vacuum 3 times a day it keeps the fleas away. Also I put a branch of eukalyptus behind my couch the fleas hate the smell.
Hope this helps,
Lammy

Answer 2

Garlic won't hurt the dog, but I don't know how helpful it really is. It never seemed to do much for my dogs, but they like the taste of it on their food!

If you are treating the dog and still having problems, you may have to look to your house to see if you have fleas living inside. Chances are you do (most pet owners do!). Borax, which is a laundry detergent, can be used safely to kill fleas in your home. You sprinkle some into your carpet after you vaccum, the fleas eat it and die. It does not have any negative effect on the dogs in the house, and is safe for use around children.

Answer 3

Prevention in this case is not cheaper than the cure

1) Treat the dog with a spot on treatment again if needs be also bathe the dog again consentrate in the areas where fleas can hide e.g creases in the skin on the back legs around the neck area

2) Purchase household flea sprays and cover the areas where your dog is allowed in the house as the fleas will now be in the carpets, DO NOT forget to do the skirting boards around the egde of the rooms, behind radiators and in sofa's and any bedding your dog has. Fleas are very clever and travel to warm areas of your house to leave their eggs to hatch this is the reason they breed so fast, however if it is cool in your house then eggs will lay dormant until warmer wheather and then hatch.

3) When your dog grooms itself it will actually swallow fleas (gross I know) but the fleas when digested become worms, so you will also need to purchase a worming product for your dog as well.

Good luck

Answer 4

I bought a puppy before that had fleas and when I went to the pet store to buy flea shampoo, the pet store told me my puppy was to young for flea shampoo. They told me to use Lemon or Citrus Dawn Dish soap. Wow was I amazed that it killed all the fleas, I had to pick a few dead ones off my dog but It worked great. Ever since then I have always used Lemon or Citrus Dawn Dish soap and haven't had any flea problems. It's so much cheaper than flea shampoos too. Have you ever seen the commercial on TV where they bath a duck in Dawn dishsoap? LOL It really is safe and I would highly recommend it to anyone who has pets.
My neighbor told me before that she use to add garlic to her dogs food and her dog never got fleas.

Answer 5

Treat your yard with Sevin granules. Treat you dog and bedding with 5% Sevin powder. Treat your carpets with Sevin powder, leave it down for at least overnigh, and vaccum or use a commercial product made for this purpose. Fleas only spend a small portion of their lives on your dog (and/or you) so the fleas you see are only the tip of the iceberg. You need to get the ones in your house and yard at the same time or else spraying your dog and keeping them off him will only send the fleas onto you. :0

Answer 6

After Frontline changed their formula it quit working for me... er, well, my dog. I went to Advantage and haven't had a flea since then.

Answer 7

sweep the floors OFTEN. you have to sweep all the bedding and flooring at least three times a day. you can feed the dog a little bit of garlic yes.

what also works for me is blue dawn dishsoap. you wash them in it and it does something to the oil in their skin that helps to repel fleas.

i never use frontline or any of those products on the neck, they can be very dangerous. my sister is a groomer/boarder and she has had many customers tell her their dogs have died or developed seizres after using that.

one thing i do use is capstar. it's a pill that you give to them, and it kills all fleas on them for 24 hours. after that, just start sweeping and give your dog a bath.

Answer 8

spray round the area where your dog mostly stays with die flea or powder that kills fleas or something,
do something about where is lays a lot and then worry about the fleas already on him.

Answer 9

you need to treat your house aswell as your dogs, also most frontline treatments take 3 months to work properly. persistence is the key

by the way, you know if you wash your dog to often or he swims alot, that advantage or frontline does not work very well as it does not have chance to get in blood stream.

Answer 10

Flees get into carpeting and bedding and unless you get them out it doesn't matter how many times you bathe your dog the flees will be back. You should shapoo the carpets and get a flee trap. The trap has a light and a sticky pad. You put it out at night and the flees are attracted to the light and get stuck on the pad.