Help! How do I rid my pets of fleas?

You sound like you are doing the right thing. But just make sure that the lawn is mowed short, get it professionally sprayed (once). Wash all bedding. Introduce garlic into their diets, it is a natural flea repellant. Check out the prices of frontline on ebay it can be cheaper sometimes.

I just wanted to say that Borax can be hazardous to pets and humans alike. If you use this, please use caution. It is not the most effective method of pest removal...from what I have read anyway. If your dog's skin is not tender, you might try a flea dip of all your pets at the same time. Lowering a flea-infested cat into a flea dip solution can be a trial but it works sooo much better than flea shampoos. It's important to do all of these things at once...the bombing, the dipping of all the animals, the vacuuming and the yard spray...then follow up with products designed to break the flea life cycle. I have great success with the solutions that can be found in almost any store that sells pet shampoo...the little tubes that contain a fluid to be applied along the back of a pet. They are only around $8 for three tubes. Also frequent vacuuming of carpets, furnishings, areas where pets sleep and changing the bag immediately (and getting it out of the area of your property) will help. It sounds like you're doing everything right, but if the problem persists, I would definitely consult a veterinarian. Some animals are allergic to the saliva in flea bites and will scratch and bite at themselves incessently, losing hair in the process and causing their skin to become extremely raw. Additionally, very heavy flea infestation can easily drain an animal of its' strength until it is barely clinging to life. Good luck. :)

You can get rid of fleas by vacumming the floor often and by putting borax power (you can get it at the grocery store) around where the floor meets the walls. Albert

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I would suggest buying some Tea Tree Oil Shampoo for your animals. You can buy it at Melaluca.com. It will help soothe your pets' skin conditions and help remove the fleas that are already there and help deter new fleas. But it MUST be the one formulated for animals. Some people swear by garlic added to the pet food, but you really have to be careful if you choose to use garlic as it can be harmful to some animals. It just depends on how your animal reacts to it. My friend from New York uses peppermint oil on her guide dog to keep the fleas off. She just goes to the health food store and buys the oil and then mixes it with baby lotion and rubs it on her dog daily. It smells good and keeps the fleas off. Other essential oils you can use are cedar, citronella, eucalyptus, lemongrass and lavender. You just buy them at a really good health food store and rub them into the coat of your pet. They will help repell the fleas, but you still have to bathe the animals to get the fleas that are already there off. Then you need to treat your house and yard or the pets will just get fleas again. We used the Hartz carpet powder on all our furniture and carpets and then rented a steamer to vacuum it up. We did that twice in a row. Then we bombed the house with Flea bombs that we got at Petco. They were a bit expensive, but worth it to get rid of the fleas. We used 1 bomb per room. If you follow the directions you don't really get rid of the fleas in one treatment. We did a super bombing. Then we again used the steam cleaner to vacuum the carpets, beds, and couch. We washed all the lines and curtains in super hot water with bleach (color safe bleach if needed). Then you have to treat the yard. We put out flea and tick granules. They are water activated so you need to make sure you water your yard after putting them out. We used 4 bags and did the entire yard, not just the perimeter like the bag said. We also bought some Bug-B-Gone and treated the yard with that too. Also we keep the grass mowed really short. Short grass helps deter ticks. I also buy this spray at Dollar General, I think it is called BugRid or RidBug, something like that. It comes in a purple can and is for fleas and ticks. YOu can spray it on your animals. I use it once a week on my 4 dogs. They somehow manage to take the flea collars off, so we have to use some spot on type treatments. Have you tried Hartz flea and tick drops? We use those once a month. You get three vials to a package and they cost about $7 a package at Wal-Mart. We spend $30 for all 4 dogs, but we get 3 months worth of treatments. I know Frontline is the best, but it's so expensive. We have found that the tea tree shampoo, the hartz drops, and the bug spray keep our dogs flea free. YOu can also get a flea shampoo with oatmeal in it at Petco. It runs $10 a bottle. Our bordercollie/husky mix is allergic to fleas. She will pull all her hair out trying to get relief. That is what got us into the tea tree shampoo. It soothed her hot spots on contact. It was the only thing that seemed to work for her. I hope I have helped.

hi! you are not the only one who experienced that. I've done everything, shampoo it with anti-flea, dog powder and it costs me big bucks for that but it didn't work. one day my uncle heard that gasoline helps to kill fleas so he tried it to our dog anf it works.

Piasbird, several years ago, I had an infestation in my home that was literally driving my dog, cat and us humans out of our minds. Nothing seemed to be working at all. I did everything anyone suggested. It was not until I started to do some research for myself that I began to see why my efforts were so futile. To get rid of fleas you have to understand the life cycle of the flea. During the cocoon stage, it is near impossible to kill with out knowing the right kind of chemicals and insecticide. Once I knew what I was looking at, and had an understanding of how to fight back it was rather easy. I used a product called Sergent's Gold flea control, both the dust and the spray. I now treat my dog with the sergeants flea shampoo and drops. Two applications in side my home and everyday vacuuming did the trick with in those two weeks we were flea free. You can purchase this product at Wal-Mart or any local farmers co-op. I wish you much luck. It is one of the most aggravating situations I have every been in, not to mention the fact that you feel like your house and pets are just nasty. I would suggest you do some research of your own on the life cycle, but I can certainly vouch for the product that it works.

hmmm i use the flea soap for my dog. pretty cheap, 30 Philippine pesos, and leaves him flea-free afterwards :)

when the fleas have established themselves in your house the only solution that Im seeing is a special drop treatment I forgot the name of the product ask you vet about it. Its a medication you drop on the nape and base of the tail of you cat or dog and they will be flea free for six months. Then for your flea problem in the house fumigating is the most effective means I can think. If you kill the adults through other means their egg cases are already hidden in the rugs and nooks and cranies of your house so fumigating can kill the unborn ones and will save you a lot of suffering and aggravation, just a day or two out of the house and a stay in, at the vet will do while your house is being nuked against the little beasties.

use medical products, or simply use 5% solution of Formaline after closing their sensitive parts for sure.. it helps alot..

If you comb and brush your pets with fine toothed combs or brushes, and make sure that you really cover the whole area, you can comb out a fair amount of fleas and ticks. Other methods which take longer include going in and simply picking out fleas and ticks whenever you see them. If you have tall grass, I would suggest mowing it or using some other method to shorten it, as fleas and ticks love tall grass. If that is not possible, simply try to keep your pets out of the area with tall grass.