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From: deb@sx1100.UUCP (Debby Axness)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Need advice : Getting rid of fleas!
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 17:13:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 17:13:14 1985
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In article <1291@mtgzz.UUCP> you write:
>
>	Our friends own a Bedlington Terrier. She's basically an
>inside dog, but she does go out to play for about an hour a day.
>And she picks up fleas. Lots of the little buggers. They've tried
>flea baths, flea powder and flea collars. So far, no luck. As my
>friend says "It seems that the little scumbags have no respect for
>the products we're using." Is there a solution? Had anyone found a
>way to keep fleas from sucking our doggies dry? And what's worse,
>I've got flea bites from the fleas that she left in my apartment
>after dog-sitting her for a week! Talk about itch. 
>
>
>Sharon Badian
>ihnp4!mtgzz!seb

I just had a horrible bout of fleas with my three felines (outdoors for
play).  They infested my carpet, my bed, and I could see them hopping
about the house, merrily chowing down on my lower legs and burrowing 
into my cats.  Nothing from the pet stores seemed to work - I tried
flea powders, flea sprays, foam flea baths.  I was vacuuming every
other day and combing the cats every day.  I finally went to my vet.
He sold me some flea bombs (continuous aerosols) which must be used
carefully - stash ALL food away, vacate the house  for four hours,
put the animals out, and then air out the house before reoccupying.
He also gave me an oral medication to give them onve a day (Proban
was the name of it, I think).  The flea bombs killed all fleas in the
egg, larval, and adult phase; the vet said I may have some more hatching
out of the pupa stage in a couple of weeks.  I did.  Then he gave me
another bomb, designed to kill adult fleas only.  It's been a month now,
and I think I got rid of them (Hallelujah!!).  The flea bomb's active
ingedient was called an IGR (insect growth regulator) which caused 
the egg & larval fleas to grow up sterile, as well as a chemical to
kill the adults.  If you want, I'll get the name of the chemicals I
used.  

Good luck!

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