Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!kitten From: kitten@hao.UUCP Newsgroups: net.pets,net.consumers Subject: Re: Need advice : Getting rid of fleas! Message-ID: <1852@hao.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 20:02:45 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1852 Posted: Tue Nov 12 20:02:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 08:26:29 EST References: <1291@mtgzz.UUCP> <218@sx1100.UUCP> Sender: kitten@hao.UUCP Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 50 Xref: watmath net.pets:1299 net.consumers:3368 > > > > 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... ...flea bombs killed > 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. > 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. > > Debby Axness > -- ** When I was renting a room in a house, the owner's daughter befriended a disposed-of pregnant cat. She kept three kittens, all of which were being eaten alive by fleas. One evening I made the mistake of sitting on the carpet in the livingroom. I was apauled at the number of bites, and had to go into the bathroom to pluck the suckers off. When she went out of town my other roomie and I decided to take action for all our sakes and dipped the pooor skinny things in flea bath, put on flea collars, and I went out and bought something called "Strike" (I think). It also has growth inhibitors and regulators. Certain phases of developement were killed, others stopped, others altered. Granted, it *is* expensive, but when I moved, I was flea-free. I recommend it. {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!noao | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!noao} !hao!kitten CSNET: kitten@NCAR ARPA: kitten%ncar@CSNET-RELAY