My Dog Needs Urgent Help!!!!!!

Hi All,

I have a 2-year-old Yorkshire terrier named Sami. She keeps getting ticks and flees, despite me treating her with Frontline of Advantage.

 

Is a flea collar the only answer or is there a natural remedy that I haven’t heard about?

 

Please let me know how you deal with this problem in Spain?

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Hi Grazy,
We have a 6 month old 'liver' Lab, named Digger.
We've had him just over a month.
When we got him, he was covered in ticks and flees, as you expect!
We treated him with Frontline and and flee collar (that cost 26 euros, but don't tell my husband) that covers him for flees, ticks and mozzies for up to 6 months, or so it says on the box!
No problems so far, he is free of all things with more than 4 legs.
Now Digger, being a Lab, loves water. So to stop him getting into our little splash pool, we have given him an old bathtub to play in. He loves it. I put a few drops of citronella oil in it. I don't know if this helps him much, but as I said, he is free of bugs.
Regards,
Fiona

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My friend's dog has the same problem and she used to put garlic in his food which seemed to help the flea problem but not his breath, so be warned... Also we have two house cats that never go outside and despite treating them for over 6 months with Frontline and the house with pesticides, they still have fleas (Where do they come from??????).  Try using another brand of drops or alternatively take the dog to the vet and they might be able to prescribe a strong shampoo or alternative. The vet gave us a shampoo when we took the cats in...but trying to bath cats is somewhat of a challenge to say the least so we haven't done it yet (I value my skin), you'll be alright with your dog though.

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My cat gets Frontlined once a month, and has only brought home one flea in two years. He goes out all the time, but since he's castrated, I think he mainly just watches the other cats, rather than getting close enough to catch anything! Fleas can only come from other animals - are you sure your cats aren't sneaking out when you're not watching?!

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We brought our two hounds over from England, a Saluki and a Greyhound and for the most part they have been free from tics and lice despite living in a rural area where most of their walks are in long grass. I check them over once a week for creepy crawlies but apart from having treated them with Frontline about six months ago they remain bug ,free. However during the last big tormenta here we were adopted by a Podenco bitch, a stray who had been wandering around the village for two or three weeks. She was infested with every nasty you could think of. She had also at some point in her life had pups. This bedraggled little wretch sheltered in my doorway throughout the storm howling and barking, eventually waking up the entire street, this at 4a.m. Being the softy that I am I took her in, dried her off and fed her. My own two dogs must have felt a bit sorry for her, because there was no snapping or vying for position in the canine hierachy. In fact the Greyhound, who is definitely the Alpha female of my little pack took it upon herself to actually give her a tongue wash.

I took the newly acquired dog to our local vet the following day and had her checked over, and wormed, just in case, and got a vial of a substance called 'Barricade' This stuff has to be diluted 1000% ie 1ml of Barricade to 1 litre of water. and then sprayed onto the coat using a spray. (I actually got the spray pack from the garden centre of the local feretaria. Same as you would use to spray roses). This stuff worked extremely well.and within days she was clear of infestation. Despite this, however I did give her  shampoo using a proprietary anti parastic shampoo. My other two dogs get on very well without any real form of continuous treatment , but the stray now has a flea and tic collar just in case.

Our biggest problem is the processional caterpillars referred to elsewhere in these forums. The area where we live has a high percentage of pine trees were these particularly nasty buggers breed; We stay well clear of these areas at caterpillar time.

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