Fleas!

[Seriouslymole]

Moledog has fleas - in February?!

Anyway, she does. We've treated her twice now but I am still being being bitten to death so am assuming they are not just on the dog. We have very few carpets but have nonetheless hoovered the house from top to bottom. What can I use to help treat the furniture? I'm fed up of scratching like a ...well like a dog with fleas.

Thanks

I found Indorex brilliant. It’s an environmental spray. My vet sells it but you can get it online too

Fab, thanks - I'll have a look.

Another vote for Indorex. I also steamed all our flooring, and got a prescription from the vet for Nexgard Spectra, as the spot-on they gave us did nothing.

You need to spray all along skirting boards as frees hide there too.

@caringcarer

You need to spray all along skirting boards as frees hide there too.

Thanks - will remember that.

What are you using on the dog? If it was bought over the counter it may not be effective. Maybe buy something from the vet instead

Sprinkle salt over all your carpets and leave aslong as possible before hoovering its kills them and there eggs it dyhrates them.

Spray, smoke bombs and spray some more and lots of hoovering once you've sprayed.

One tip I picked up was to put a flea collar in the bag/drum of your hoover as you hoover them up, put the hoover away and they just crawl/hop out again. If there's a flea collar in the bag it kills them

What are you using as treatment on the dog? Another shout for indorex for the house, along with vacuuming at least once a day for 2 weeks.

In addition to the above, flea combing makes a big dent in the numbers while you're waiting for the spot on treatments or sprays to break the breeding cycle. Put a small squirt of washing up liquid in a cereal bowl with water, stir, then when you catch a flea with the comb, dunk into the bowl. The detergent breaks the surface tension of water, so they can't hop out.

Salt on carpets and furniture. Leave it on for a bit then sweep, then vacuum

Cheap flea collar in the vacuum cleaner. Empty vacuum cleaner into outside bin after use

Indorex spray, especially in corners / caroet etc

It takes about 3 months to get rid of them as nothing kills the egg so you have to wait for then all to hatch. Treat dog regularly, hoover lots (and empty bag lots so they don’t just hop out) and follow the Indorex instructions and it’ll get a lot better soon but not be completely over for 3 months.

Don’t bother with the smoke bombs my local shop told me they don’t work

Indorex is great. Spray rooms, including skirting and Curt, close for an hour, vacuum, spray again.

Use Bravecto on the dog, it kills any fleas that bite the dog. I took the dog upstairs to ensure he mopped up any left over fleas, worked a treat.

The fleas might be resistant to over-the-counter treatment, I'd go to the vet.

We had issues with our cats recently and after two doses of shop-bought flea treatment it was just getting worse. One dose from the vet and within a couple of days there were dead fleas everywhere.

You can buy special lamps from Amazon that have a sticky disc underneath. Fleas are attracted to the warmth of the lamp (mimics body warmth) and get stuck on the pad.
You could make your own by directing a reading lamp over a shallow dish of water with washing up liquid in it. The washing up liquid stops them escaping from the water so they drown.