Any tips?

[MrsMidnight]

Howdy doodey dooo!

Sooo got a flea problem at my mums, have had for a while now but my main concern is my little springer Harvey... He's clipped of regularly on a 3mm blade to help keep them off, washed in flea killing shampoo and use flea drops and sprays regularly but it's causing him so much hassle he keeps going red and spotty from the bites and he's allergic but vet tabs are too expensive to give him atm so wondering if anyone knew of anything that could help that if they had flea problems helped their pet / home? He also has garlic tablets...

Might seem a little random as it's a car forum I know... But just looking to see if any one had any tips from precious experience at all? Lots of people have pets on this forum so may have faught the flea battle and won?!

Thanks!

[Tom]

When we had fleas at home before we set of all these aerosols in every room and that killed them all off, you have to evacuate the house for a few hours ofc... As for getting them off the actual pet i cant remember :/

[Toms306]

We use some frontline liquid stuff on the back of the nans dogs neck. Only time he got fleas was wwhen we left it two weeks longer than we shoulda done without redoing it. So I guess that must work, not sure of price though.

[MrsMidnight]

We've tried a few different makes of that stuff but it doesn't seemed to have worked properly... Really annoying as they keep coming back and he gets bitten to shreds the poor boy! Also tried little bomb things but running out of things to try to hope they work! Would love an exterminater but that's too much money which we don't have sadly

[lolsteve]

Nuke them mother'lickas!



Flea bomb will do the house though, there's also flea spray that makes them go away you spray all over the place kinda thing.

[Jonny b]

Get into a proper routine with something like frontline, I'll ask her where we get ours from! It's a lot cheaper than from the vets, thing is its about prevention rather than cure. My lot run around the woods twice a day and we never get them! At most I have to remove a tick a week but that's with 4 of them

[Niall]

Ideally you want the proper flea treatments. We just gave one to our dog. It was about £40 but it actually gets rid of all the fleas in the house as well which is good.
If not, all you can do is give everything a seriously good clean to try and keep the level of them down but you need to treat the dog to get rid of them really!

[Grant]

Spiders eat fleas. Get some spiders in the house.

Then get scorpions to eat the spiders, as they are a natural predator of crazy spiders

Get a couple of salamanders to eat the scorpions

Get possoms to eat the salamanders, then a couple of hawks to eat the possoms.


Stop this process at any point you find a creature you can live with in your house....

All returned with a quick scope of google

[samass]

i knew, as soon as i'd seen that grant had posted in a thread, it would have been the most helpful post in there....

[MrsMidnight]

Lol grant, can't deal with spiders and yucky bugs though! I freak at money spiders ffs!

Think I'm just going to have to save for a more expensive round of treatments and hope they work once and for all! Hope they are better than the current ones we use real often though! God darn f*cking things, hate seeing little Harvey like it

[kentiiboii]

My vets told me to not bother with frontline and stuff it's like throwing water on the dog. I get something from vets called stronghold and it's been great rather expensive though. For 3 months treatment and house spray it's about 30-40 pound. I pay £7.50 a month for my dog at vets and she gets her jabs flea treatment and working plus checkups and anything wrong with her they'll sort. so its a good thing to have for me as my dogs tiny. But if I had a great Dane wouldn't possibly cost about £50 a month.

[Niall]

Kent, I couldnt recommend it more. We've given Boston front line twice in 4 years and it's worked spot on almost within a few hours.

[Toms306]

Your vets taking the piss, making you buy something more expensive lol. Nothin.g wrong with front line at all!

[spike2002]

Can vouch for front line i use it on my 8 month old staff and its realy good covers fleas and ticks for a month at a time or just fleas for 2months.ive had no problem with fleas at the mo i also give her garlic bread aswell. If you dog will eat it give her garlic cloves mashed in to her food or garlic bread watch out tho as my lexi stinks the house out

[Strikeforce]

Frontline ftw we get ours from asda (the pharmacy bit) as its cheaper than the local vets and it works great

[Dum-Dum]

You need one of them things that gasses the whole house.


Oh and we use frontline for our dog too and never had any flees

[kentiiboii]

Well either way I pay £7.50 a month and get the the spray and treatment plus worming free, all check ups, jabs and more free. The flea stuff is free all the time as long as I'm paying the £7.50 a month so all in all it's good

[Matt]

Why do you have a flea problem in the first place? Is tw home dirty? We dot seem to have a problem with ours, don't even use "de-fleeing" treatments with the pug and she's fine. Think it's all down to the home to start with. Get rid of the cause first and then the dog. As you can treat the dog but everytime it revisits this place it's gunna get fleas again.

My mates dog is covered with fleas. That's why we don't take our pug round simples

[spike2002]

Matt its not a case of fleas are atracted to a dirty home if there is a high number of cats in one area for example you will have more chance of getting them as the live in grass aswell as on ur dog or in ur home.

Best thing to do is:
1: set off gas bombs in every room
2: give the dog a bath with decent flea shampoo
3: use frontline or similar

You need to do all this on the same day if you can as if you deflea the dog you will still have the problem in the house and the dog will get them agen its a visious curcle

[MrsMidnight]

Pretty sure it's because of the cats next door, never had a problem untill we moved in there and next doors cats have fleas, house is cleaned all the time as were doing what we can to get rid of them...

[spike2002]

If your house is joined to next door and they have got a bad flea problem that is where it will be coming from.
You have 2 choices ring enviromental health and report ur neighbour as the infestation could of spread from there house to urs. Or shoot there cats

[Midnightclub]

If your house is joined to next door and they have got a bad flea problem that is where it will be coming from.
You have 2 choices ring enviromental health and report ur neighbour as the infestation could of spread from there house to urs. Or shoot there cats

Well.. it would appear there is no other option.. i know what i'm doing when i get home

[spike2002]

Or be polite and mention it to ur neighbour but me id shoot the fkers i hate cats :p

[declantg]

Napalm is pretty good for flea treatment

[CJ_Derv]

i know how to solv the problem, get rid of the flea attracting pets and get a pet like mine



Problem Solved

Freddy doesnt get fleas lol

[Midnightclub]

Because they can't see him when he enters stealth mode? i kid obviously..

[Mrs puglove]

i know how to solv the problem, get rid of the flea attracting pets and get a pet like mine



Problem Solved

Freddy doesnt get fleas lol

Someone else has a chamelion change of subject a little but how long you had yours?come across any problems?

[Toms306]

Must get some odd looks taking him for a walk though?

[samass]

Must get some odd looks taking him for a walk though?

FuckingLOL

[MrsMidnight]

My mate used to walk his pet rat to the shops...


And CJ, I love my dogs too much!!