My Dog Lacey

Hardly. Advantage doesn’t work on ticks. Advantage works on fleas, and boy does it kill fleas. Yesterday was our second Advantage treatment. I put Lacey in her crate to sleep because last time I treated her, the place she slept had tons of dead and barely alive fleas when she got up.

This morning I immediately threw her bedding in the wash with a little bleach and got the flea comb after her. I was surprised that I didn’t get much from the comb, but there were tons in her bedding and in the bottom of the crate. Gross.

Anyway, it’s killing them. The question is, are they dying faster than they’re reproducing? Is our flea infestation being improved or just growing? Not sure, going to give it 2 more weeks like Alexis said, then maybe call Fleabusters. My friend Leslie says it works great and apparently it’s natural, you can do it yourself or have their service come in and do it for you. This is looking like a good possibility.

Now, for the tick thing. Advantage doesn’t kill ticks, unfortunately. And Lacey had a big one under her chin, just above the collar line. I didn’t even know it was there until yesterday. Alexis said to light it on fire — WHAT?!! I’m not sticking a match under my baby’s chin to see if I can burn a flea off without burning her! By the way, seems like there’s a fire theme going — burn the vacuum cleaner bag to kill the fleas, burn ticks to kill them.

Anyway, I ended up giving her (Lacey, not Alexis) a piece of ice to chew while I took a different piece and rubbed it on the culprit tick. Who knows what that did or if it helped. Then I grabbed it’s little brown, totally gross body, and worked it out. I got the head, which is always the goal. I dropped him in this metal dish and went about working on the bite (neosporin because I’ve lost my tea tree oil).

Next thing I know, I’m smelling smoke and a tick on fire!! Alexis, our (apparent) resident pyromaniac, burned the tick. Dead. At least we know that setting a parasite on fire does work to end said parasite’s life. I’m still a little hesitant to use fire too much, because of the whole burning-down-the-house issue.

Anyway, fleas are dying. Ticks are dying. It’s a good day.

Anna

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 21st, 2006 at 9:16 am and is filed under Health & Nutrition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Hardly. Advantage doesn’t work on ticks. Advantage works on fleas, and boy does it kill fleas. Yesterday was our second Advantage treatment. I put Lacey in her crate to sleep because last time I treated her, the place she slept had tons of dead and barely alive fleas when she got up.

This morning I immediately threw her bedding in the wash with a little bleach and got the flea comb after her. I was surprised that I didn’t get much from the comb, but there were tons in her bedding and in the bottom of the crate. Gross.

Anyway, it’s killing them. The question is, are they dying faster than they’re reproducing? Is our flea infestation being improved or just growing? Not sure, going to give it 2 more weeks like Alexis said, then maybe call Fleabusters. My friend Leslie says it works great and apparently it’s natural, you can do it yourself or have their service come in and do it for you. This is looking like a good possibility.

Now, for the tick thing. Advantage doesn’t kill ticks, unfortunately. And Lacey had a big one under her chin, just above the collar line. I didn’t even know it was there until yesterday. Alexis said to light it on fire — WHAT?!! I’m not sticking a match under my baby’s chin to see if I can burn a flea off without burning her! By the way, seems like there’s a fire theme going — burn the vacuum cleaner bag to kill the fleas, burn ticks to kill them.

Anyway, I ended up giving her (Lacey, not Alexis) a piece of ice to chew while I took a different piece and rubbed it on the culprit tick. Who knows what that did or if it helped. Then I grabbed it’s little brown, totally gross body, and worked it out. I got the head, which is always the goal. I dropped him in this metal dish and went about working on the bite (neosporin because I’ve lost my tea tree oil).

Next thing I know, I’m smelling smoke and a tick on fire!! Alexis, our (apparent) resident pyromaniac, burned the tick. Dead. At least we know that setting a parasite on fire does work to end said parasite’s life. I’m still a little hesitant to use fire too much, because of the whole burning-down-the-house issue.

Anyway, fleas are dying. Ticks are dying. It’s a good day.

Anna

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 21st, 2006 at 9:16 am and is filed under Health & Nutrition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.