Thanks for the tips guys. I'll find some time to visit the local vets office and see what they say. I might go and find some food-grade diatomaceous earth (DE) and dust Ollie, the house, and the yard. I have a box of pool-grade DE (so tempted) but I know that's a bad idea since there are impurities and dangerous substances that can be in it.
Dixienut: I hear you. Repellant just keeps them away from the dog, but not people. While they aren't really biting us, I find them jumping on me and I kill them as soon as I can if I can catch them. He goes out a few times a day to go potty since I'm still home. Once I start school next week, he'll be going out less.
FluffyNTex: We sorta did the same thing. He got a haircut and a bath. It relieved him for a while but it still wasn't time for another application of FP until this week. I was tempted to buy some flea contact-kill and residual-kill spray since I often go "monkey" on Ollie and find fleas running for their lives. I'll buy a bottle of that Adams
stuff and give it a try. While I don't really like flea collars, I've read that Zema is pretty good.
Radar: Yup, read about Comfortis too. We might switch to that after our FP runs out at the end of the year.
247Plants: Stay away from Cypress. One of my neighbor's cats is carrying this super-strain of fleas. Darn that cat. It goes into our yard for some odd reason. We have no food outside yet it just keeps on coming back to our frontyard, which is Ollie's territory. I guess it just likes to **** off Ollie.
Dixienut: I hear you. Repellant just keeps them away from the dog, but not people. While they aren't really biting us, I find them jumping on me and I kill them as soon as I can if I can catch them. He goes out a few times a day to go potty since I'm still home. Once I start school next week, he'll be going out less.
FluffyNTex: We sorta did the same thing. He got a haircut and a bath. It relieved him for a while but it still wasn't time for another application of FP until this week. I was tempted to buy some flea contact-kill and residual-kill spray since I often go "monkey" on Ollie and find fleas running for their lives. I'll buy a bottle of that Adams
stuff and give it a try. While I don't really like flea collars, I've read that Zema is pretty good.
Radar: Yup, read about Comfortis too. We might switch to that after our FP runs out at the end of the year.
247Plants: Stay away from Cypress. One of my neighbor's cats is carrying this super-strain of fleas. Darn that cat. It goes into our yard for some odd reason. We have no food outside yet it just keeps on coming back to our frontyard, which is Ollie's territory. I guess it just likes to **** off Ollie.
