yorkyexile
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Whats best one for a mutt? Just found an uninvited guest crawling up her belly. Been treated with spot on about three week ago but have the horrible feeling i may have fetched them in from work
Flea shampoo
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Shave it.
max wartbug
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We use a pill (Johnson's Flea tablets) that kills the fleas and eggs, right chew on getting the mutt to swallow it though.
You need to treat your carpets and soft furnishings/dog bed too and keep checking her.
You need to treat your carpets and soft furnishings/dog bed too and keep checking her.
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super noodles
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I didn't know fleas washed their hair
Dennis
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It'd be a bit tricky shaving a flea, they're tiny
Skandhaless
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It's hard to tell, they have tiny heads
look out piano
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I used a spot on treatment for the cat a few weeks ago, saw no evidence of fleas on the cat or in the house but he had a decent sized bald patch near his front shoulder which looked angry and freaked me out. He could have just been over grooming the area but I just wanted to be sure, his fur is thankfully growing back now but I was really worried for a while (he's an indoor cat, but I read that fleas can get in via open windows, clothes and what have you, the pesky bastards).
Hope you get it sorted soon fella, a flea infestation can be very grim (I had one with my old cats about 15 years ago and I got bitten to fuck
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super noodles
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I reckon if you looked closely there would be tiny, microscopic dogs living in the hairs of fleas.
Skandhaless
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Dogs that have tiny fleas..... 👁
hairynaker
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Make sure you buy some indorex spray off the internet (expensive from the vet) and give your house a good spray. Get at least 2 cans.
Absolutely brilliant stuff. Mind it kills all creepy crawlies.
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yorkyexile
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Cheers
Mr Redknapp
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Ticks them off.
PTR
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Oh man, we had decorators a few years ago, and their dust sheets brought fleas in.
Had to practically fumigate the house, as the cats went everywhere - so once the fleas found the cats, the fleas were spread across the whole house.
Had to wash almost everything - and sprayed this stuff on every carpet.
Aside from that, having proper spot-on treatments will kill the buggers. Actually the dog will be a walking flea killer, as any that jump on it and have a bite will be killed.
Make sure you're not just using Frontline though, that stuff is becoming less useful as fleas have developed immunity to it. Advantage is a better product.
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Had to practically fumigate the house, as the cats went everywhere - so once the fleas found the cats, the fleas were spread across the whole house.
Had to wash almost everything - and sprayed this stuff on every carpet.
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Aside from that, having proper spot-on treatments will kill the buggers. Actually the dog will be a walking flea killer, as any that jump on it and have a bite will be killed.
Make sure you're not just using Frontline though, that stuff is becoming less useful as fleas have developed immunity to it. Advantage is a better product.
Advantage for Dogs from £10.49
Advantage for Dogs is a monthly application which will rid your dog of fleas within a day. Each packet contains four pipettes covering four months of flea treatments at a very cost effective price. Advantage 40 for Dogs should be used for small dogs...
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Roker Mackem
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Last cat died the other week. No more furry pets... the fleas are lethal.
PTR
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Advantage, that I posted above, is the same drug - its the flea part of it. The worming part adds together to form Advocate, but that's presciption only - Advantage isnt
Swindon On Tour
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Have had 4 Labs and the second one I had constantly picked up fleas.
The other 3 have never had one.
Mind you he would constantly pick up dead rabbits and carry them home
The other 3 have never had one.
Mind you he would constantly pick up dead rabbits and carry them home
PTR
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That's what advantage / frontline is good for. A spot on treatment every couple of months, and you'll never end up with fleas.Have had 4 Labs and the second one I had constantly picked up fleas.
The other 3 have never had one.
Mind you he would constantly pick up dead rabbits and carry them home
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