OK, one of the problems i seen is that you said that you have the pets on flea insecticides such as Frontline AND you are bathing them?! The Frontline can NOT work if you are bathing them too!!! And are you making sure that you are getting Frontline Plus? I heard that regular Frontline doesn't work worth diddly. (I never even knew there was Frontline and Frontline Plus until we got into a conversation about it at the dog park.)
Second, did you try using a cut up flea collar IN your vacuum and vacuum ALL the rooms twice a day? (Once in the morning and once at night.)
At night use a nightlight near the floor and have a large wide pan with about an inch of soapy water. (Somehow keep the pets away from this.)
As for Boone an injection of cortisone will help more than the steroids and antibiotics will. (and remember... one flea bite stays in their system for about a month.)
And rather than spraying the yard I'd suggest using diatomaceous earth. If you have a front lawn and a back lawn only do one at a time and let the dogs only on the part that you didn't do for about a week. Spray down with water the part you did after a week and then do the other part.
And if you ask me flea shampoos are a waste of money.
Feeding my dog a bit of garlic powder every day seemed to help. I wonder if rubbing garlic powder into your pets' fur would help?
I also found this link with useful advice. I've heard before that Neem oil works great. http://www.natural-pet-care.com/natu...dies-for-dogs/
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AdoreMyDogs
This probably should be in Dog Health, but I never go there, so I'm posting it here for more viewing.
I have a problem and I'm at my wits end! I just can NOT get rid of these blasted fleas. We've had the yard professionally sprayed 6 times this season so far, plus we've treated it ourselves with 7 dust and other insecticides for fleas....we've flea fogged the house, even though we have hardwood floors. The pets, all 4 of them, have been on flea preventative (we've tried Frontline, Bio Spot, Sergents) AND I flea bathe them at least twice a week. I can't get rid of these blasted fleas and Boone has a flea allergy, so his coat is in horrid condition. He's actually lost the majority of his coat and he even has near-bald spots on his back above his tail. He's been to the vet for antibiotics and steroids once already this season and we have a feeling it's just not ever going to end. He has another hot spot forming. I'm keeping him on Benadryl now to help with the allergy and it's helping a bit.
Since I quit working to be home with my baby, our money is so tight. We have truly tried everything to rid the animals of fleas and nothing, and I mean nothing is working. We are spending money that is set aside for food on flea treatment/prevention stuff. We had to go a week with eating nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches because we spent so much money on flea treatment that we didn't have enough left to go grocery shopping. I flea bathe them and just one hour later they're infested again. Being that we're spending so much money, this is heart-breaking for us. The shampoos we've used (I've tried about 6 different brands) are for fleas, flea larve AND flea eggs. Just last week I was nursing Quinn when a flea jumped into her hair, luckly I was able to get the nasty thing out before it bit my baby, but I've also picked a flea out of her crib that I know bit her because she has a flea bite on her ankle. I know this sounds terrible, but I have considered re-homing the cats to cut down on the expense of inefective flea control.
Does anyone have any other ideas to get rid of fleas, becides burning down my house and moving to Antartica? I'm seriously so tired of the fleas. I NEVER EVER had a problem with fleas when I lived in Michigan. I think because the ground freezes it kills them off. I have never heard of Frontline and Bio Spot being completely ineffective. I never, ever see a dead flea on them until I bathe them in flea shampoo.
We are getting the yard sprayed again this Thursday, this will be the 7th time this season alone, and I'm going to buy another gallon of flea shampoo...but flea fogging the house is so hard since I have the baby and I have to cover everything of hers as to avoid exposing her to the chemicals, and spending several hours outside the house to let the fog clear.
And let me tell you, bathing cats is no picnic, and I limit their baths to once a week. Mindy screams like I'm skinning her alive and Minion is OK but as soon as I take a hand off him he immediately tries to jump out of the sink. It's just a miserable problem and I try SOOOO hard to fix it with zero results
We just bought this product called Capstar, which is supposed to wipe out fleas for 24 hours...but nothing else has worked, I doubt this stuff will work, but we're trying it anyway because we're desperate. We ordered it so we're still waiting for it to arrive in the mail.
In all the years of owning cats and dogs, I think I can count on one hand the amount of fleas I've ever seen on my animals, and it's usually from a run at the dog park, and it has resolved immediately with just one dose of topical flea treatment. I never even had to use flea treatment on a regular basis when I lived in Michigan. I swear the fleas here in TX are resistant to pesticides......HELP!!!!!
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