I used biospot on Maudie yesterday and she still has fleas!
She STILL has fleas!!!!  I don't want to overdose her. now what?
I'm waiting for the vet to call back. I thought maybe I could get some advice in the meantime! |
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| The few times we had fleas (knock on wood!) we bombed the whole house. As well as treating the dog, the bedding, etc.
I would be cautious though, you are right in being concerned about toxin buildup for Maudie. Let us know what your vet recommends. |
| I think most of the spot treatments (Advantage, Frontline, etc) say they take up to 24 hours to be effective. So, I wouldn't panic just yet. You can't safely treat her again for 21 days.
I've had a very difficult time with fleas this summer, too. I have faithfully treated all my pets every 21 days and we still had problems. The most recent time, I noticed fleas on them again after only one week. It's so frustrating. I bombed the house on Friday night and on Saturday I cleaned like a fiend!! EVERYTHING in my house was either laundered or shampooed with the carpet cleaner. So far, no fleas...but, I'm still holding my breath.  |
| We've had fleas once so bad I thought I'd lose my mind.
The vet told us to bomb the house 3 times 4-5 days apart. We used the Advantage then followed with a flea bath 2 weeks later and treated with Advantage again a few days after the bath. That is ALOT of chemicals but if your fleas are bad enough it becomes necessary. As a side not, when I had my terrible problem we discovered that the dogs were getting reinfested IN THE CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The house was flea free and so were the dogs but I had not thought about the car, which had fleas. I actually had to flea bomb the car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| That's pretty much what the vet said also. He said that she can take catstar (?) We'll see. I don't know what that is.
I haven't seen anymore this afternoon. Kind of like a kid w/ a high temp. The best way to make it come down is to make an appt.! |
| You have questions, oes.org has answers.
See How to get rid of fleas |
| Thanks! |
| Good luck! Pesky little buggers, aren't they. I wish you could order in an early freeze just for them!!! |
Mop lover wrote: Good luck! Pesky little buggers, aren't they. I wish you could order in an early freeze just for them!!!
No, no - include for ticks and mosquitoes too! Ticks have been bad all season and the mosquitoes are making up for lost time here in SE Wisconsin. Yuk! 
I rarely have fleas. I may see an occasional youngster on somebody's nose when they just come in from outside, nab it, kill it, panic, and then remember that I don't get infested. And I don't use anti-flea products regularly. As in virtually never. And we go to classes and dog shows and dog parks and agility trials and... Having said that (and, now having jinxed myself  ), I came home from the national in 2005 with an absolute infestation (three dogs). I treated them with Frontline Plus and bathed the heck out of everybody else and then just vacuumed, vacuumed, vacuumed (and you need to dump the canister immediately every time, and not in the garbage in the house). I did have to treat the same three once more a month later, and that was the end of that.
Fleas don't like my dogs. Don't ask me why. I'm just grateful and I don't question it. Well, I question it a little and wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that my dogs are (a) pigs and/or (b) being shown/trialed and so have to be bathed more often than normal dogs. Bathe a dog with fleas, even without flea shampoo, and the soap and water will kill the little buggers. Then did I mention vacuum, vacuum, vacuum? 
Some day this post will come back to bite me in the you-know-what. I remember my mom having to fleabomb the house growing up and it wasn't fun. Hope you halt the little buggers in their tracks ASAP. While you wage your war on them, I'll be waging war on the 'skeeters. Kristine |
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