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Do you guys keep your dogs on flea meds year round or just during the season?

I've never had any issues growing up with dogs/fleas...never even knew what the fuxk they looked like but I had to take my Corso to the vet earlier this month because he ended up getting a rash on his tail bone....come to find out it was a flea bite that he's apparently hypersensitive to....
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Do you guys keep your dogs on flea meds year round or just during the season?

I've never had any issues growing up with dogs/fleas...never even knew what the fuxk they looked like but I had to take my Corso to the vet earlier this month because he ended up getting a rash on his tail bone....come to find out it was a flea bite that he's apparently hypersensitive


Here in SC, we do flea medication from March/April up to December.
Heartworm we do year round.

We've had a couple they were hypersensitive to flea bites and would cher up a "hot spot". A little benadryl works to calm the reaction.
 

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Here in SC, we do flea medication from March/April up to December.
Heartworm we do year round.

We've had a couple they were hypersensitive to flea bites and would cher up a "hot spot". A little benadryl works to calm the reaction.

My vet gave me a 3wk supply of Cephalexin and some other anti-inflammatory, took about 2weeks for it clear up....

I was thinking seasonal as well, just wasn't 100%
 

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Do you guys keep your dogs on flea meds year round or just during the season?

I've never had any issues growing up with dogs/fleas...never even knew what the fuxk they looked like but I had to take my Corso to the vet earlier this month because he ended up getting a rash on his tail bone....come to find out it was a flea bite that he's apparently hypersensitive to....
we do it year round. I dont think we really have to but being we act as a small rescue we take in cats or a pup sometimes thats just covered in them so we keep ours protected best we can. fleas are motherfuckers once they get into shit , and like they jump all over the damn place they dont crawl , if a flea was the size of a person it could jump over 200 meters in the air ...
 

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we do it year round. I dont think we really have to but being we act as a small rescue we take in cats or a pup sometimes thats just covered in them so we keep ours protected best we can. fleas are motherfuckers once they get into shit , and like they jump all over the damn place they dont crawl , if a flea was the size of a person it could jump over 200 meters in the air ...
In my younger years, I moved into a rental house that had been empty for many months.. and within no time I had flea bites all over my legs.
Apparently, the little fuxkers can lie dormant for a long time, and live to attack at the first sign of life.
 
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We rescued this very good boy last year. Just finished his heartworm treatment and he’s feeling great.

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In my younger years, I moved into a rental house that had been empty for many months.. and within no time I had flea bites all over my legs.
Apparently, the little fuxkers can lie dormant for a long time, and live to attack at the first sign of life.
Alabama where my Aunt lived fleas would come into the house like that when they cut the hay fields around the house it was miserable , they would fumigate n bomb the house and even that wouldnt kill em all.
 

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Alabama where my Aunt lived fleas would come into the house like that when they cut the hay fields around the house it was miserable , they would fumigate n bomb the house and even that wouldnt kill em all.
Used to live in Decatur a looong time ago. My mom would put a lit lamp on the floor and a bowl of soapy water in front of the lamp in each room. Next morning there would be fleas aplenty dead in the bowl.
Fumigation was a frequent task, too. Living just a few blocks from Tennessee River, there were all kinds of creepy critters pretty much year round.
 
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