Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sx1100.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!ncs-med!sx1100!deb From: deb@sx1100.UUCP (Debby Axness) Newsgroups: net.pets Subject: Re: Need advice : Getting rid of fleas! Message-ID: <218@sx1100.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 17:13:14 EST Article-I.D.: sx1100.218 Posted: Thu Nov 7 17:13:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:32:50 EST References: <1291@mtgzz.UUCP> Reply-To: deb@sx1100.UUCP (Debby Axness(688031) Organization: SPERRY Information Systems - Roseville, MN Lines: 46 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! Debby Axness no fancy .signature yet Address: ...ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!ncs-med!sx1100!deb -- Debby Axness no fancy .signature yet Address: ...ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!ncs-med!sx1100!deb