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To: Gottfried who wrote (495)6/18/1997 5:54:00 PM
From: Iceberg   of 1894
 
>I'd sure like to know how you control fleas outdoors without spraying. I can't even control them with spraying for long. Our lots are small (8,000 sq ft) and there are dogs on either side.

Gottfried,

I'm on 1 acre. Semi-rural. South Texas. Rattlesnakes [killed 4 here in the last two years]. Rats. Loose cattle. Rabbits. Stray cats. Stray dogs. Plus...my 3 dogs [indoor/outdoor]. Plus, my 5+ cats [1 indoor, 4+ outdoor]. Bats. Birds of many descriptions. Wasps. Dirt dobbers. Wild turkeys. Deer. Wild hogs [one attack ensued about midnight, 3 weeks ago]. Wild chickens drifting in and out. Roadrunners. Cow birds.

You name it, I've seen it come-and-go on my property. Everything imaginable seems to wander in and out at will. Sometimes it's like a nightmare...especially in the middle of the night when all the dogs start barking at "who-knows-what".

But the one thing I do have control of [finally] is...fleas. And the one thing that's out-of-control here [just recently] is scorpions. I just don't get it.

To answer your question about flea control, it apparently takes a combination of 2-3 different internal and external treatments for the dogs. It's the combination that does the trick. And I've seen no side effects.

My wife knows more about this than me. She's out for the afternoon, so I can't tell you right now what the exact combination of treatments is. But I do know she's consulted with veterinarians on this for the past year or so, and seems to be up on the latest developments. What ever she and the vets are doing is apparently working. At least for the flea problem.

More on this later...

Ice
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