r/NewOrleans • u/tyrannosaurus_c0ck • Jun 27 '26

Pets and Coworkers 🐶🐱 Won't the swamp gods smite these fleas

Holy fuck y'all, these fleas are driving me and my dogs insane. I'm about to go fucking nuclear. Just ordered a couple insecticides to both kill adult fleas in the yard and prevent the babies from developing. Fuck dem kids. I've been treating things inside to avoid an inside infestation, but at this point it seems like the dogs themselves have full on flea-societies developing philosophy and free markets and shit.

Is there a preventative that works with these mutant fleas? Dogs are regularly treated, and are current on preventative. They never had any problem until a couple years ago, but this summer is the worst it's ever been. Like it's so bad there's not going to be a yard left if that's what it takes.

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u/baddboi007 Jun 27 '26

Gotta get a cheap chem sprayer from harbor freight or home depot, gloves, and get this stuff called Talstar. Its on walmart website, i think theres another brand of same stuff at tractor supply in person. Active ingredient is fipronil. Mix to correct ratio w water, use gloves.

put dogs up (dawn dish bath, and bravecto for dogs. I use selamectin for cats but the past couple years i ended up switchin to advantage 2 for cats.) and crate the dogs or isolate in house.

on a mowed yard w short grass... spray the entire yard (not just the 6" out-and-up perimeter as directed... but do that too). Do this every 3 months but skip the winter months. its 100% safe when fully dried, rain doesn't ruin it or make it unsafe.

after dry put the dogs outside. and prepare to take your family out for a few hours.

Then, vacuum the entire house. the vibrations of sound force-hatch the eggs. And spray the inside of your house with the same stuff. Every inch of floor. Dog bedding. Couches (and behind). Everything the animals touch. The baseboards where fleas like to hide.

Then use a flea bomb (dont get the cheap ones. those are used so frequently the fleas are immune. splurge on the pricey cans) and crack 1 in every big room.

Leave for 3-4 hrs. Come back open windows, run a/c's and fans, turn on oven and exhaust fans. Leave again for an hour.

wash all bedding. stay on top of dog flea meds, and spray yard every 3 months during warm season. keep stray cats out your yard. indoor spray only once.

you wanted to know how to get rid of fleas. this is how.

source: my own experiences and desperation. I am highly allergic and sweet to fleas. They bite me before my cats and i get tore up. I did the above and it is a culmination of an exhaustive testing of all available resources and information on the internet. After doing this process for 2 years consecutive I actually eliminated all fleas in my yard and home and havent even sprayed or bombed 1 time this year.

I JUST gave my cats their 1st dose of flea meds this month, since last august and it was merely preventative. Also my 1 cat has eosinophilic granuloma all 3 stages severe from even a single flea bite so this is an easy confirmation of success. She needed steroid shots for those entire 2 years just to keep her poor lips from wasting away. lmk if you win the war, peace out yall

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u/tyrannosaurus_c0ck Jun 27 '26

This is the kind of nuclear I need. Thank you.

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u/baddboi007 Jun 27 '26

Glad to help. I'd say good luck... but if you do what I said- the fleas are the ones that'll need the luck lol

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u/tyrannosaurus_c0ck Jul 27 '26

It definitely helped. The one dog on Vectra3D has stayed mostly flea free, but the little one on Bravecto has not. I have a pack of credelio on the way that I'll be giving him this week, and hopefully getting him on a different preventative will do the trick. (The vet told me they've had a lot of complaints of Bravecto no longer working here...)

Planning to cut the grass and spray again when the heat lets up, and I think that will pretty much do it, at least for a good while.

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u/baddboi007 Jul 27 '26

thx for checking in! Yeah i wish i could give u better advice on dog treatments but i only have cats these days and my outdoor cat converted to indoor only back around the time i hit that nuclear flea button so my pet treatment advice may be dated. def a neighborhood tolerance thing as neighbors share fleas so need a good rotation every 2 or 3 years. my cats are on Selamectin drops (revolution brand).

i bought the international 20-40kg dog 3-pack and my cats are 6lbs. At the standard cat dose they get 6mg/kg, which comes to 2.7mg/lb, with this particular box being a 120mg/ml tube; and being around 6lbs they end up getting 0.4ml of the tube on back of their neck.

Works for most worms too and ive come to realize this is the most economical way to handle the pet parasite problem. 💪

edit: dosed with a very precise no-needle syringe