FLEAS!!!!!

[sallydog14]

Hi can anyone help? Trevor and Peggy were only about a week away from their next Frontline treatment, I give it to them every 2months, when I saw a flea on Trev whilst grooming him. Once I finished freaking out I did them both straight away. Well this was Friday and I found one again today! Peggy seems ok but of course she is being treated too. I have thrown their old quilts and brouhgt new ones. And put the covers on a hot wash. But still they seem to like my old Trev! He,s not infested by any means. I just see one every now and again. Thought of taking them to the vets in the morning but wanted to ask to lovely folks out there if you knew and solutions. x

[rachael]

My vet told me that Advocate is more effective than Frontline at killing fleas - it is available on prescription. The fleas live in the environment and only feed on the dog so you would probably do well to get a house spray to kill fleas and eggs etc in your carpets and furnishings.

[Ian]

Hi Anne, the pets here had an attack of the fleas during our relatively mild winter, no idea where they came from, but they were hard to get rid of. They were all Frontlined, beds were checked and washed or disposed of accordingly. None of the pets were riddled with them, possibly the worse was the mother in laws Springer. I think in the end they tried an alternative to Frontline called Stronghold, We used the same brand on the cats, eventually they were cleared. There was also much grooming going on and we used a flea comb to help as well. I found with Sean that Fleas tended to head for the base of his tail or neck area, i.e. the places it's hard for him to lick \ bite.

It might be worth checking the Frontline packaging to see how long it takes to work, I thought Frontline was supposed to make it's way into their skins so that when the flea bites it dies. I'm not sure how long that getting into the skin process takes. If they won't go you could enquire with your vets about Stronghold, the fleas may have become resistant to Frontline, so an alternate remedy may kill them off. That said Frontline really ought to do the job.

[prince]

i use stronghold as prince had a skin mite last year which gave him sensative skin. it is a very good flea treatment and i have never seen fleas on him at all. it also covers fox mange and many others which frontline does not cover.

[pat]

with fleas they do get immune to one kind of flea drop such as frontline, so the vets do suggest that you change after about three times using one product, although saying this i still stick to frontline ,but i have also used advantage every so often, not for fleas but for heart worm, so i suppose that i am swopping one time out of four. You can after using any product find the odd flea because until it bites ,the products do not kill them, if you use a spray on the coat that kills them immediately
pat

[sallydog14]

Thank you so much everyone for your advice. I will ask at my vets about an alternative tomorrow. This is the first time I've ever had a problem with the peskie mites and I hope its the last! x

[suethejam]

We did have an incident on holiday last year - I was a week late with their Advocate - I remembered when I found a flea on Lou's fur while we were on the boat; the following day I found tapeworm in Ty's poo - courtesy of Lou's fleas!!!!

Cue emergency stop in Newark (on the River Trent) to get treatments - ah, there's nothing like a restful holiday with the hounds :-D

[leefizz]

For a long time I've used Effipro on Fizz, which I've been told is a lot like Frontline. I did find though that Fizz scratched for a few days after having it. I have recently use Advocate, with no problems.




Lee

[yvonned]

Garlic is a good flea deterrant, you can smash a clove up and pour boiling water on it, or I reckon garlic puree would probably work the same. When cold rub it into your dogs coat. Have you ever been close to someone reeking of garlic, if you hate it, you'd move away lol.