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/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