Tried everything to get rid of Fleas on my dog!!! Need other ideas.?

HI

I had a similar situation with my dog and fleas and skin allergy and my cat not having them a bit strange. I also tried everything for months eventually I managed to get rid of them by giving my dog a bath in flea shampoo once every 2 week and then I put a flea collor on him and I have not seen a flea since. Hope this helps.

I think you should listen to your vet. Fogging the house and yard may seem unlikely to have an effect but it the long run it will help. Some children are alergic to dogs cats and FLEAS yes fleas. If you are running a daycare center I suggest you get a child safe fogger to use. I also suggest not switching shapoo and flea repellents so much. Your dogs skin may be dry and for that try useing a hydrating shampoo. You should also consider giveing your pets year round flea preventitive. I also know that shaving the coat would cause more harm in the long run then good. It can irritate the skin more and it can also ruin your dogs fur. Petsmart is not always the best consultants to go to for advice on a flea problem. You may also want to try and get an allergie study done on your dog to find out exactly what it is allergic to. Some dogs are allergic to a specific meat by product some dogs are allergic to something outside. Please don't just follow what your family thinks is right because there is more opinions your vet who had to go to a fancy expensive school would know more about your animals.

A BIG THING TO REMEMBER IS MOST LIQUID DOG FLEA PREVENTIVES ARE NOT SAFE FOR CATS AND OTHER ANIMALS.

Hope I helped and thanks for taking time to read my answer.

If you don't get the fleas out of the house and yard then you'll never get them off the dog. You need to fog the house. There's not getting around it. If you vacuum and even 2 fleas get missed they will breed and make more fleas and you're back to where you are now.

Best thing to do is- fog the house. While you're out get Capstar and give it to the dog and cat. It will kill any fleas that are on them for about an hour but doesn't work longer then that. Then put Advantage or Frontline on them. Do not give them a bath for at least 2-3 days after they get treated with the Advantage.

You're not going to get rid of the fleas without fogging the house. As much of a pain as it is to clean up the daycare, I would be really ticked as a parent if my child was getting bit by fleas while at daycare.

Garlic doesn't work and Revolution doesn't work either. Revolution is basically birth control for fleas and will only work on the ones who bite your dog. In the mean time you still have fleas in your house.

Cats are notorious for having fleas. And guess what?? If there are fleas there is tapeworm...so both also have tapeworm. The flea carries the larvae for the tapeworm.

Your in home day care business will come to a screeching halt if one of the mothers finds a flea or 2 on their child. You have to fog the house, you have to have the dog dipped....or you do it in the bathtub....you need pyrethrin....or permectrin......mix as directed , the pet shop has it.....stand the dog in the bathtub and keep pouring the mixture over the dog....be sure to rub some in between the eyes, and ears....fleas love to run to the eyes for water. It will take quite a while to saturate the dog.... but this is what you HAVE to do to get rid of them. Makes no sense to get rid of them in one place and not the other......the house has to be fumigated as do the dog and cat. Then get the preventative that you put on their back every 3 mos....one of the answerers has the name, I don't. Use it religiously. Why does your dog roam all over the place? That is not good. Keep him home, or you will have to go thru this all again.

If you get him clipped down, it will make it a LOT easier to get to the fleas. ...and won't take so long. You can also spray your yard w/the dip....and keep your dog home. Bad idea to let him roam. Bad.

Also.....I would find another vet.

Fleas are bad right now.I have a kennel of coon hounds. The best I can offer is what I do. I am also flea free.Ikeep my dogs on Frontline. I also keep their bedding changed regularly. I use cedar shavings and mix flea and tick powder with it . You may need to do it more often but I bath my dogs with Sentury flea and tick shampoo once a month. There are alot of dips and shampoos that will do the trick for the dogbut thats only half of it. there surroundings is the other half. I have two pits in the house. Just as a routine I use flea powder for carpets every other time I vaccum. Hope this can help.

Forget the flea collars, they won't help and they can irritate the animals' skin and make them sick. Shaving the dog won't prevent fleas from getting on it. Fleas spend most of their time off the dog. They jump on, grab a meal, and get off to continue the rest of the life cycle.

My dog has been on Advantage for her whole life and has maybe had 5 fleas in 10 years. She goes everywhere with me and there have to be fleas in places we go. I have cats who go outdoors, too. I've never fogged the house or yard. The Advantage works by killing any fleas that get on the dog, so sooner or later all the ones in and around your house will die. That or a similar product are the best you can do. Maybe you should give it a little more time to take effect, though it eliminated fleas practically overnight when I first started using it, or go back to the vet and see if another product would be more effective.

Shaving has no point. The fleas are on the skin, not in the fur. They are attracted by blood.

You will need to do the house and yard. How can you not do that ESPECIALLY since you have a daycare! Do you want the kids going home with fleas/ flea eggs? I'd bet if those kids have pets, some are now having flea problems. Same with the yard. As long as the kids are not there, it should not be a problem. Cover or remove the open toy boxes.

Frontline Plus. Or i have to use Pro Meris for my PB because she has skin allergies. It works great. It is a little more expensive then the frontline. Take your dog to the vet and they will give it a cap star to kill all the fleas that are on it now. Then get a topical flea medication, like Pro Meris, and that will keep the fleas off.

where I live there are neighbors behind our home and they are "hippies" and believe everything should be natural and it is ok that their dogs have fleas and ticks. they never spray their yard and we do. we had a terrible time keeping fleas off of our house dogs so the vet gave us pills for our 3 dogs the first one was capstar that only lasted 3 or 4 days then she gave us a pill that lasted for the entire month and it was wonderful!!! it was less that 15.00 a month and we were spending over 100.00 a month trying to spray the yard and treat the dogs with frontline plus flea shampoos.

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