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06-05-2019, 03:50 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Out by the lake in central Texas
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Fleas
Sure seems to be a bumper crop of fleas this year. They are killing my dog. Poor dog is allergic to them & he's all rubbed raw.
He gets a monthly dose of REVOLUTION®, but I'm having to spray him every time he comes back inside. |
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06-05-2019, 04:15 PM
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You might want to start him on garlic pills.
The fleas at my place are potentially carrying Bubonic plague. We don't take any chances.
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06-05-2019, 04:31 PM
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Fleas have a life cycle that you need to break. I spray my yard with Ortho Bug-B- Gone, the red bottle you attach to the garden hose, but if you have a flea infestation, do it every week for 4 weeks, then once a month until the season is over. But you'll have to treat the yard, dog and house all at the same time. I had that problem once.
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06-05-2019, 04:32 PM
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slug
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Out by the lake in central Texas
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Yeah garlic & this dog will have me giving out. He's gotten to be a real stank hound as he ages.
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06-05-2019, 05:05 PM
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Location: PNW
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Fleas are in your grass/ lawn ..... Spray your grass
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06-05-2019, 05:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Seattle, WA
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My working service dog is allergic to fleas, the vet provides me with a 'munchie' every three months that does the job for her and the other two GSD's reap the benefits of pack ties...we don't want fleas, this is plague country for such critters.
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06-05-2019, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: swampeastmissouri
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My wife puts a little Frontline between my
shoulders every month and it helps keep the fleas and ticks off of me... |
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06-05-2019, 07:25 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: PNW
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Ive never had flees at my place
Just Ticks, Rattle snakes, Ground squirrels, rabbits, coyotes, gophers, ants and bigger ants |
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06-05-2019, 07:33 PM
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Location: N Michigan
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not much for fleas here yet but I was looking at my AmStaff this morning and he had a tick on his lip,,,,lots of tall grass in the fields so now I have to start checking them every day
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06-05-2019, 08:17 PM
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High Priest of Honkydom
Join Date: Feb 2014
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I remember when my grandmother turned her whole yard white with Sevin dust because of an infestation. My aunt's dog was the culprit.
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06-05-2019, 09:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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I had a dog allergic to them. Neither pills, shots from the vet, immersion in nasty ungents, DDT, gasoline, Vaseline nor Voodoo rituals would help her come spring. 98% of her hair would fall out and she’d look like a chupacabra. Died of cancer at fourteen during a monsoon year while the yard was under water, had to freeze her until the water table dropped. Sometimes life is gonna be shit, she had three litters and I still have her daughter, she’ll be seventeen on Flag Day.
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06-05-2019, 09:25 PM
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Location: Pennslfucky
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Had a flea on my forearm last week while I was out in the yard chucking a football around with the little ones, squeezed it into submission then beheaded it like a muzzy.
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