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Subject: Re: Need advice : Getting rid of fleas!
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 20:02:45 EST
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> >
> >	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.

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