Frontline not working? HELP!

[Holmeshx2]

not sure if this is the right spot or not but I just came up north to Michigan to visit family. Jinx has never had a single flea on her however shortly after getting here it was time for her to have her next dose of frontline so I went to a local vet and got a single dose of it however she now has a bunch of fleas on her!!! I don't know if these darn Michigan fleas are immune or this vet just sold me some bogus stuff I have no clue what to do I don't think I can give her another spot on its been about 10 days since I put it on her. I need help for what else to do for these darn fleas! I have never had frontline not work and I found them under her armpits and she even has some flea dirt on her so I know they are actually chewing on her and digesting without dieing off.

[NewbieShepherdGirl]

I don't know how to get rid of fleas once you have them, but I've been using the regular flea/tick medicine on Sasha and then also using a spray when I know she's going to be in a tall grass/wooded area, and I also bathed her with flea and tick repellent, shampoo. The ticks are crazy bad down here this year and the regular flea/tick stuff wasn't doing it. I hope Jinx gets better!

[GSDBESTK9]

Bath her with a Flea Shampoo.

[gagsd]

I am having the same problem now. Frontlined all the dogs, then again 2 weeks later. Boric acid powder in the house, flea collar in the vacuum, pesticide spray in the yard...... and still fleas. Yech

It was recommended I try Comfortis. I have never used it and am a little leery, but the fleas must die.

BTW- a Capstar tablet will kill the fleas on her for about 8 hours. So that would work IF you don't have any in the environment.

[Holmeshx2]

I'm thinking they are in the yard like crazy so while I can get them off once I can't seem to keep them off of her. Getting ready to go postal and buy stuff to treat the entire stinking neighborhood and kick my parents out of their house overnight so I can bomb the house they said they know they are all over the yard and are "going" to treat the yard and house my dad even bought stuff for the yard but has not applied it trying not to be pushy in their home but enough is enough. They also have a trailor at a campground I'm gonna have to treat also since they are going up there almost weekly and have a little chihuahua so obiously its going to just keep going back and forth. I'm all for a shampoo but thats not really going to give me the longevity that I need. Plus if I go to my sister's house or something I need to know if the frontline didn't work, the fleas are becomming immune, or if the yard is just that bad.

[EJQ]

From a previous post ...
All else aside; we were at a dog show about two years ago. Stopped by one of the vendors to buy flea/tick meds. The lady advised us to buy the Advantix product because the parasites were building a resistance to the Frontline products.
We now use the Advantix II version.

[MaggieRoseLee]

FLEAS ARE A NIGHTMARE! Specially cause once we usually SEE them, it means they may already be in the yard/house. So the battle isn't just on the dog with the frontline but having to be all the other locations too.

For the house, I've found the flea bombs work the best. Get a bunch of the cans, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS, start them up and leave the house.....

For the dogs, I have to use the combinations of flea shampoos/frontline. Make sure you get the ones that kill the eggs/make fleas sterile. So even if they don't die they can't lay more of those darn eggs!

And vacuum vacuum vacuum!

[jocoyn]

There are in fact resitant flea populations
One of my dogs has a flea allergy so one bit is misery

When this happened to us this is what we went through
[1] capstar to drop the fleas
[2] Switched temporarily From Frontline to Revolution for fleas (and HW)
[3] Bombed the house using a flea killer with insect growth regulator after thoroughly vacuuming and double wrapping the bags in plastic bags and immediately discaring
[4] Vacuumed again

A friend of mine had great success treating her yard with nematodes and I am going to look into that this fall and next spring as we are seeing more ticks this summer

We did not have to treat the entire yard though I did treat areas where the dogs spent more time (they lay on the deck so I treated under the deck in the damp shade)

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Anybody else here old enough to remember nightly sessions with a flea comb (and that thick GSD fur), and those foul smelling flea dips? I remember sitting on the bathroom floor with my dog and a jar of alchol to dip the little buggers in and kill them on the spot.

[gagsd]

Originally Posted by jocoyn

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Anybody else here old enough to remember nightly sessions with a flea comb (and that thick GSD fur), and those foul smelling flea dips? I remember sitting on the bathroom floor with my dog and a jar of alchol to dip the little buggers in and kill them on the spot.

Are you calling me old?

I remember the day a salesman brought a little white unlabeled bottle of flea spray into our vet clinic. He said "this stuff is better than Adams."
And for once, the salesman told the truth, it was the first batch of Frontline.

[Josie/Zeus]

Is it safe to alternate Frontline and Advantix month to month? I'm so afraid of Odin getting ticks and fleas, he's on frontline right now.