Riddled with fleas!

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I've just been giving my dog a cuddle and I've noticed she is riddled with fleas, and I mean riddled!

I stick to a flea schedule (advantage - prescribed by the vets) and she was due today - so I've just treated her, but I am so horrified how many fleas she has on her body and how I didn't notice them.

Her fur has lots of flea dirt and she urgently needs a bath to get rid but I guess I have to wait until the treatment is absorbed.

Due to her colour and type of fur I can spot fleas very easily when I wash her and I gave her a wash only last week and there were none on her body - now there are so many!
Is this normal! I've never seen so many on her! Poor thing, she seems ok, not even scratching that much...but I feel so bad for her. I've treated the cat too - she doesn't seem to have any at all...

Sometimes the flea treatment stop working. They certainly did for our cat and we had to change brands at the vets.

We use indorex for soft furnishing, beds etc

I use nexguard spectra on our dog. And yes indorex is good for spraying the house

I feel your pain op. My dog went through this a year ago snd no matter what I tried I hold them eradicate them. In the end it took several bottles of indorex, flea tablets (capstan? Capstar?) and flea bombs plus daily hoovering and regular washing with anti flea shampoo to finally break the cycle. It was a nightmare.
Dog and cat fleas are different by the way.

Plus daily flea combing as well. It was a total pain the the arse!

If you’re washing her frequently you’re probably affecting the efficacy of the Advantage - check the data sheet for bathing/re-treatment instructions, or visit your vet for a tablet treatment if you want to continue bathing. Indorex or similar for the house will help get on top of the life cycle.

I have cats, and they had Advantage flea treatment. One year it just stopped working - they were riddled with fleas too, nearly got banned from the cattery when they went in.

We spoke to the vet and he said he'd heard this from quite a few pet owners. His view was that there were some Advantage-resistant fleas that were becoming more common. We Indorexed the entire house, swapped the cats to a six-month injectable treatment and have had no fleas since.

Any oral treatment ending in -laner and Indorex the daylights out of the house.

Bravecto from the vet. Works a treat on dogs....

Thanks everyone.

My washing machine is on overdrive.
The vacuum is on overtime.

I'm spraying the house tomorrow when the delivery arrives.

Me and the poor ddog have just spent the evening in the bathroom, me manually removing as many fleas as I can - I shampooed dog in the bath and cutting the sudded fleas out of her fur and cutting them in half with my embroidery scissors (some of them still manage to move around being cut in half!)

I do always avoid washing ddog when I flea treat her - I realise the treatment must impregnate the skin and I only wash her when she's rolled in something stinky as we both hate it.

I think I got 95% of the fleas on her body.
I'm so upset how many there are/were and the little sore patches on my dogs skin I feel like a terrible owner.

Tomorrow I'll see if I can get some oral tablets from the vets and tackle the cat....I had no idea dog and cat fleas were different - the dcat appears to have none currently, but her fur is very dense and she's a wolverine so I just might not have spotted them yet.