Fleas! What is the absolute best way to get rid of them?

[justincorbell]

To sell a dog because it has fleas is the dumbest thing I have ever heard! For someone to buy a flea infested dog to bring back to their place and spread them on their yard and to the rest of their pack is rediculous and if some one did that......well..... Seven dust granuels x2!!! Works real good, and you can get pills or a liquid drop that you can administer yourself from tractor supply, any feed store or you local vet. If you have pens that are not on a concrete slab, on the ground you can also spray diesel, or if you have wooden pens burn the pens and build new ones after the fleas are gone, then make sure you administer flea meds to you dogs annually or as often as the medication requires you to do so. Another trick for your yard is using a sprayer that hooks up to you water hose... Fill the sprayer full of dawn dish soap and spray your yard, the soap will harden and suffocate the fleas! I am partial to seven dust though!

IT WAS A JOKE..............to see someone take it serious IS the dumbest thing i've ever heard! lighten up!

[justincorbell]

sell all your dogs and light the yard on fire! 

You always have the best home remedies 


But on a serious note, my family has always put garlic in our dogs food. We've never had fleas.

Well at least someone took it for waht it was.....A JOKE! lol

I have heard of the garlic in the dogs food but honestly never tried it. I personally just use the comfortis pills like others have suggested.......I have hell with the flies around my yard during the summer tho........I have tried just about everything to get rid of em, gonna try cattle ear tags this summer attached to their collars to see if they will help any, anyone else have any remedies? I don't wanna burn up my yard again and im fresh out of dynamite!

[curdogs3006]

Comfortis is the best hands down.

X2

Dawn dish washer soap blue ( works great too) use it a lot for puppies with fleas.

[justincorbell]

Comfortis is the best hands down.

X2

Dawn dish washer soap blue ( works great too) use it a lot for puppies with fleas.

I have used countless bottles of the blue dawn over the years on pups.......It will kill the flea's in a hurry but it doesn't last as far as a treatment goes, within a week they usually have em again but its great to use until they are old enough for other forms of treatment, in my opinion anyway

[charles]

Justin, the ear tags work, but the 10% permethin sprayed on the dogs and a 20% mix sprsyed on the ground, on and in the dog houses works but a reapply 1x a wk will kerp them gone

[justincorbell]

Justin, the ear tags work, but the 10% permethin sprayed on the dogs and a 20% mix sprsyed on the ground, on and in the dog houses works but a reapply 1x a wk will kerp them gone

Charles, I use the permethin on the dogs and all over the yard, especially in the kennel area........I swear that the strain of flies I have use that stuff like steroids.......it don't slow em down a bit........I would say that it helped with the flea's but I started giving my dogs comfortis around the same time that I started spraying the yard with it........I don't know if one is better than the other or not but I don't have any problem with fleas since I started using them.

[Circle S kennels]

Charles if you have a tractor supply near you, they carry a fly product called golden marlin. It is a fly attractant. It looks like little blue rocks, take a little cup and fill it up and spread it on the ground in front of your kennels. Try not to pile it up to heavy....just walk in a line about three or four feet in front of your pens with it. Within one day all the flies will be dead and laying on or near that line! If you have time get a cold beer and a chair and watch it in action. They flock to it and kill over dead within seconds