I went to get flea medication for my lot today because the bloody GSD I rescued has brought the dreaded flea infestation with her.

It cost me £70 for everyone plus some household stuff.

If I'd got it from the vet it would have cost over £100 but I live really close to a veterinary chemist and got a prescription when I had the GSD speyed.

I usually do the cats one month and the dogs the the next so I hadn't realised it was costing so much I nearly crapped.

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Sax

Got too many to mention!!!!!!

I am constructing a website for my rodents so if you'd like to take look please be patient I'm not very good with webpages so it may take a while to get up and running. I only have the hamster pages anywhere near done.

http://nimbusstud.weebly.com/our-hamsters.html

Could you not have used a flea bomb??



(NOTE:

You cannot use this near reptiies)

Marina

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Give in
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Oh done that one this year after a rescue kitten came to stay for a while thankfully my lot aren't as big as your GSD but when there's 8 dogs 5 cats and a few guinea pigs to do the bill goes up big time.

I used a household product called Skoosh which mean't I didn't need to move the reps out as its pesticide free works by covering all stages of the flea with a silicone jel that suffocates them or prevents the eggs from hatching and so on - worked a lot quicker than the normal pesticide stuff coz it kills everything it comes into contact with not just a certain stage of the life cycle.

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This year has been an absolute nightmare for fleas according to the vet. Our cats have had three seperate infestations. Luckily we only have three and one course of Frontline for them all is £20.

I helped out a friend a few years ago watering her house and garden plants while she was on holiday. her cats were all in a cattery and the owner rang me cos she knew I had a key, to tell me that they all had fleas and so she thought I could treat the house while it was empty.

Sadly, one of them must have hitched a ride with me and I didn't notice. It presumably laid eggs and so about a month or so later I had a flea problem. With about 8 or 9 cats in the house it cost me a small fortune to get rid of them.

Expensive favour!!!

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Cats: 4 Somalis - Harry, Roscoe, Cadbury & Purrdy (9 - 13 yo) and 1 Siamese - Luna (10yo) - all bred by me

Fish: 15 pond fish
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I just use spot on that I buy online without a prescription every 3 months and we don't have a problem with fleas really.

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We have four big dogs, mastiffs, rotties Gsd etc, along with the 8 cats.

I bought frontline from our local vet chemist, Hyperdrug Equine Pharmacy - Hyperdrug, Home of the Equine Pharmacy, Canine Chemists and Pigeon Pharmacy, pet medicines, wormers, and flea treatments, it's just up the road.

I've tried the flea bombs before and they didn't seem to work very well I bought acclaim household spray this time. I've had to tub all the snakes and put them in another room upstairs yesterday so today I'll bring them back downstairs and do upstairs.

I also got a small bottle of frontline spray to do the small animals.

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Sax

Got too many to mention!!!!!!

I am constructing a website for my rodents so if you'd like to take look please be patient I'm not very good with webpages so it may take a while to get up and running. I only have the hamster pages anywhere near done.

http://nimbusstud.weebly.com/our-hamsters.html

Our cat had really bad fleas once and we got the stuff from the vet (we didnt know any better) and it was so expensive when u have to buy all the house sprays etc as well as stuff for the cat! our local chemist stocks the stuff now tho for like half the price!!

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I went to a cat breeders seminar put on by Hills the pet food people years ago and one of the lectures was on parasites. The vet there said that you could get rid of fleas without even treating the animals, by purely treating the house!

Because the fleas only feed off the animal and then jump off and lay their eggs in the carpets etc that if you treated the house with Acclaim or Staykill you broke the cycle. The eggs didn't hatch and the larvae didn't grow into fleas and you would solve the problem without touching your pets. Of course the existing fleas would still be feeding on the animals, so it does depend on the extent of the infestation, but it does work!

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Snakes: Monty - 10 yo anery corn & Calleigh, 4yo miami zig zag corn.

Cats: 4 Somalis - Harry, Roscoe, Cadbury & Purrdy (9 - 13 yo) and 1 Siamese - Luna (10yo) - all bred by me

Fish: 15 pond fish
www.feorag.freeservers.com