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Okay, my wife has this dog. Now don't get me wrong, I love my wife. Anyway, her dog, a party colored cocker, is a flea hotel.

It's a pampered pooch. $38 haircuts and shampoos. It comes home with the little bows tied in it's hair, or a cute 'kerchief around it's neck. Oh how cute.

My haircuts cost $14, and I never get the lovey-dovey comments this dog gets when it comes home from the groomer. Hmmmm. (thinking, cautiously)

Anyway, it's the inbetween times that get me, really. When the dog starts this scratching routine, ahhhhhrrggg! Night and day, day and night.

This morning I had it. $50 bucks for frontline, $5 bucks for flea collars, the fleas use for tapdance routines. Arrrrgh! This dog is a flea hotel. You can wash her, bathe her in caustic chemicals known carcinogens! But you can see the little buggers heading for their bomb shelters, donning raincoats, grabbing the scuba gear and slapping on their gas masks. Somehow, a few will survive, a week later their is a thriving community..... of fleas.

This morning, I found an answer. Conditioner. I dosed this dog head to toe in nothing but conditioner in the bath tub. Sweet revenge it was, all that scratching, all that feeling of what's that on my ankle? Oh no a flea! Sweet revenge.

I started at the head with nothing but a two dollar bottle of conditioner. On top, massaging it into her two inch long locks, inside the ears, outside the ears. Creating a toxic gooey mess worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster. It was total devastation.

This dog was a walking tar pit, it was a mudslide coming down a rain-soaked mountainside, it was quicksand. There was no escape.

Okay, I'm ready for Hints from Heloise. I wonder if she pays anything for all those wonderful home remedies?

Sign Me, Flealess

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I wondered what those little bugs were that came with my swap meet wood that I got from you, hmmmmmmmmm.

Korean barbeque...

[QUOTE=Bruce Dickey] On top, massaging it into her two inch long locks, inside the ears, outside the ears. Creating a toxic gooey mess worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster. It was total devastation.

This dog was a walking tar pit, it was a mudslide coming down a rain-soaked mountainside, it was quicksand. There was no escape.[/QUOTE]
This was about the time by dog would leap out of the tub, run around the house in this little game of "catch me if you can". Rubbing against every surface, grinding it into the couch, rolling on his back to make sure ever square inch of carpeting was covered in this goo. ARRRRG!
Glad you found a cure.

Round two. Iayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyhhhhhhhhhh! Upon later inspection, I find three more. Back in the tub, this time it's pure shampoo, man is that slick. A dog covered in shampoo undiluted is major slick. Well, after a good rinse, the bubbles in the tub were approaching two feet tall, but I could still see the dog's eyes.

I can hear the voice on the other end of the phone, "This is the SPCA we hear you are torturing animals in your bathtub and we want it stopped right now."

No, no you have it all wrong, I'm killing flease here, just killing fleas.

I win.

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We had a cat years ago, and never realized there was a flea problem until she was relegated to an outdoor cat - allergy issues with my son.  Anyway, after she left the house, we found out that we had fleas.  What an aggravation.  When they didn't have the cat to jump on, they jumped on us.  Finally had to set off a couple of those Bug Bombs in the house to get rid of them.

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Wow Bruce,sounds like you nailed em. We moved into a rental house years ago and found the deep shag carpet had an army of fleas from the last dog to live there. Some 7 dust from K-mart did the trick .
My dog I have now has some kind of allergy.The vet can't figure out whats causing it.She scratches and scratches. Prednisone works for temp. relief but we can't keep giving her that. I was wondering if a dog could be allergic to tonewood dust like us humans? Anybody have this problem with there pooch?

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Borax! It's said to work well!!

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Billy Dean Thomas
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"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Now no offense, honest

But just can't stand pets. My daughter is begging us for a pet, we keep telling her she can have a pet when she's old enough to have her own house.

Am I a bad parent?

Bruce, do you have carpet in your house? You may have an entire continent of flea's if you do.

Oh and the reason you don't get all the lovey-dovey comments when you come home from the barber is that you keep taking the bows out of your hair

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Rod, we have mainly tile downstairs, carpet upstairs. The dogs are kept very clean, we have two, one short hair Rat Terrier, a hunter. The other a cocker with long curly locks. Guess which one is a flea incubator? You are correct, the cocker.

We have a cat too, but it isn't suffering the same fate as the cocker or short hair terrier. I'm looking forward to first killing frost, that'll dry up what is outside and we'll eventually get this problem licked for the winter.

Fortunately we have no problem with the house. I totally understand no pets in folks houses. I also understand why we have them too. They are great company and enjoyable.

That little redhead deserves a pet, but like you say, maybe when she has a home of her own.

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Rick,
Sooo Funny, Sooo Sick

Man Bruce!!
That's hitt'in where it hurts!
Your one cruel b@st@rd and don't think I don't respect that!

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[QUOTE=Bruce Dickey]
It's a pampered pooch. $38 haircuts and shampoos. It comes home with the little bows tied in it's hair, or a cute 'kerchief around it's neck. Oh how cute.

My haircuts cost $14, and I never get the lovey-dovey comments this dog gets when it comes home from the groomer. 

Sign Me, Flealess[/QUOTE]

Bruce, Have you tried the little bows in your hair?......

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.... thinking about it Dave, thinking about it.

Billy, so you feel that hits below the belt ay?   

My nephew above is holding Buster. Buster being a male and taking after his daddy, is a great hunter. My niece took him to their home in the country and he's a great asset and they love him. Buster's daddy is a squirrel dog and worth $1K. We just had the one litter, but it was educational and fun too.

Here is a story about Buster's brother Petey. Petey would crawl out into the middle of a huge pan of dry dog food and lay down. He always claimed it for himself, everytime.

I told the sire's owner about that and he said that's the one I want, over the phone. I delivered Petey a few weeks later. Talking to the guy, he said Petey nearly died and told the story about his grandsons coming for a visit.

Pop was showing his grandsons around the place and pulled a stone off the top of an old well to let them peer inside. You guessed it, Petey came zooming up and plop, fell seventeen feet down the well into the frigid water. He ran inside and called for his wife to come help.

Pop goes to the shed and brings out some fishing line a treble hook and a fishing weight. He rigs it up drops it down the well and snags Petey through the skin of his back. He pulled him near the top and had to get the wife to do the last six feet, Petey was saved from the well, shivering cold and wailing over the treble hook in his back.

Of course, he was fine, and I know Pop and those Grandsons will never forget that day of looking down a well! Petey was the runt of the litter.

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Oh Bruce, I'm glad she can't read yet

Actually, she's kind of scared of dogs and cats. She likes them from a distance and that's just fine with me right now

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Frontline is a no-go? Man, you live in a tough neighborhood! That's our mainstay around here.   With 130 lbs going on 170 lbs (once the pup is grown) of dog in the house, I don't want to start seeing any fleas!

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Frontline is only good if you use it. We'd let it lapse long enough that the dogs were overrun, or maybe it was their outside nap places? Yeah, Frontline has killed every tick but seems less effective on fleas for us. I'm not taking any more chances, so we're using it, as prescribed. Flea collars are a real joke. Conditioner, though is inescapable! Remember the old dog dip? Carcinogen-city. I met a guy who told me his dad coated his dogs in fresh motor oil, vroooommmm!   

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Bruce, Thanks for the tip! My wife was about to make a trip to the vet to get
some flea dip for our pooch (miniature long haired dachsund hold the Paris
Hilton jokes por favor!) and I suggested the conditioner. She asked me
where in the **** I came up with that. I told her the OLF! She looked at me
like I was crazy! She threw the mutt in the tub and lathered him up with
some Tre Semme conditioner and was amazed when the fleas actually let go
and rolled off the dog. She was very impressed that the little buggers came
out almost immediately! She commented to me that even the Frontline stuff
doesn't knock em off like that. So hat's off to ya for the good advise!
Rochester thanks you to. (Little dog, Big name, my late father-in-law named
him after Jack Benny's driver!)

Tonight our forecast predicts the first killing frost and I couldn't be happier. But this morning, I'm heading my two dogs up to get their beauty treatment.

Those fleas can be quite pesky critters to eliminate. I have two new bottles of conditioner, $1.59 at Wally-World! Mr. Magalis, Congratulations to Rochester, long live the OLF.

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Boric acid , or borax if you cant find the boric acid, will eliminate fleas forever. SPrinkle it everywhere, vacuum up what you can, and leave the rest. It is non-toxic and you will never know it is there, but fleas, roaches, ants, and any other hard shelled insect will because it will kill them dead.

SPrinkle it in the yard, under the steps, under the house if it is a raised house, and anywhere the dog might go. sprinkle it on the dog too. It doesnt take much to do the job. Did I mention that it kills termites and other wood eating insects too?

10 pounds of it is enough to do a normal sized house and yard.

The voice of experience speaking.....

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Oh, thanks Ken. Billy T said Borax. I'm glad you chimed in, cause I've been putting it in the dog's food.   

We did have a killing frost for a single night, and they seem to have slowed down to a crawl. Fido is still scratching so I bet we still have a problem Houston.......

I'm just thrilled there isn't an inside population!

What would we do with out kitties and pooches?

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Woah!! I never thought of that!
I've been eating it too!
I hate having fleas!
Hate baths too!

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