What do ya'll use for deworming your pups? MATH WHIZ HELP PLEASE. =)

[bcnewe2]

was buying the flea stuff from them but have switched to Pet Armor. I buy the XL size vial and draw it up into a syringe and find the volume and split it on my 2 border collies and do the same for my female LGD

We are always fighting fleas. Where are you located and are fleas a serious issue for you? I've heard other people useing Pet Armor but nothing is working for us. I've had to switch to the newest type from the vet at over 50 bucks a package. Not even sure it's working.

I do the same with most of my drugs, buy the largest size and split accordingly.

Thanks for the tip. I might have to try PA but makes me nervous because I hate to over dose with anything and if it doesn't work then I'm stuck treating again before it's time.

I have a senior dog (border collie) that wasn't a senior when it happend, but we were living in AR and it got really hot. Nothing was killing the fleas. ON the advise of the vet we "over" treated and she now has seizures. I think that's when it all started

 

[babsbag]

Pet Armor is generic Frontline so if Frontline doesn't work Pet Armor wouldn't either.

I live in No. CA and fleas are really only an issue in the summer. I only treat every other month as I would rather have a few fleas than "poison" my animals conitinually, and I don't treat at all in the winter unless they are on the house cats. With the cats the most annoying thing is that the fleas transmit the tape worms and those things are DISGUSTING!!!!

When my LGD had pups AND fleas someone mentioned Comfortis. I guess it is an oral flea medicine that works for thirty days, you might try that. Or Redtailgal mentioned this.

You can take oranges, cut them into quarters and place them in your crockpot on low for overnight. The juice and oil will simmer out. Strain this juice and oil thru a cheesecloth (squeeze it to get it all) leaving you with a strong and sticky juice. Dilute this 1 part orange "stuff" and 1 part water for a flea spray (be generous on the feet, gentials and "armpits" and around the ears). You can spray this on all the bedding as well. It's safe to use on newborn puppies, too (I used it on my Dobermans when I was raising them) Also mix it full strength with whatever shampoo you may use.....1 part shampoo and 1 part orange "stuff".

She also said to make sure you wash the collars, she says that fleas can lay eggs in the nylon collars.

Good luck with the battle.

 

[BrownSheep]

I don't know if this will work for fleas but it does for lice. you can put some olive oil on them and it will suffocate the bugs and the eggs.

 

[Ownedby3alpacas]

Diatomaceous Earth controls both internal and external parasites, cheap and not a chemical so it's safer for the dog.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

Funny, we used to use DE to do manual blood clotting time tests when I worked at the emergency vet.

 

[bcnewe2]

We don't have fleas at the moment but they will be back. We have a bunch of feral cats close by. I tried comfortis when it first came out. Made 2 of the dogs pretty sick. DE only effects what it touches with limited success (at least for us). I will try the orange recipe, but doesn't it burn the skin a bit? The vectra worked, just expensive.
Missouri and Arkansas must have some very tough fleas. Long ago I had a cat who was allergic to everything. We used deluted pine-sol. Must be the oil that smoothers them. Was great while in Colorado, we lived in the high desert and for 2 1/2 years didn't have to use anything!

 

[babsbag]

Missouri and Arkansas must have some very tough fleas. Long ago I had a cat who was allergic to everything. We used deluted pine-sol. Must be the oil that smoothers them. Was great while in Colorado, we lived in the high desert and for 2 1/2 years didn't have to use anything!

I used to live where it snowed in the winter and we had very few fleas to deal with and I never treated them; ah, the good old days.

I hear that tea tree oil in the shampoo is supposed to work too, but you can't use it on cats. The thing is I don't bathe my LGDs so that won't work for me. The house dogs are usually flea free IF the cats are treated and I am not bathing a cat, no how, no way, at least not mine.

I make goat milk soap with tea tree oil and sell it as dog soap; people love it. I can't say that it fights fleas though, the FDA won't allow that claim.