Fleas

[Bullwinkle]

Carey:

Thanks for your input. My post is not meant to inflame or blame. It is meant to point out that we are responsible for what we add to the toxin or bacterial load of the ocean (s). Ultimately each one of us is responsible for our actions - and should provide or pay for mitigation of same if we cannot prevent it.

I am a waterman and feel a deep respect for the oceans. What I experience here in Hawaii is remarkable for its insensitivity compared to other Island (s) and Nations. Ecoli and Staff in public swimming holes in Hawaii for rudy's sake!
Group denial and lots of it - imho is the only logical explanation.

Aloha

[lostboystoy]

ok back to the topic at hand my partner is a vet tech in H.P.P.
Yes you have to switch up your flea and tick meds every couple months as they become less effective, dont even try the over the counter crap your waisting your money, every 3 months their is a new flea and tick med combo that comes out on the market. So dont make the same mistake we did and buy a year's supply you will get stuck with it....Some of the parasites here have a life cycle as short as 6 days, Parvo is out of control here on the island as is Lepto. The pahoa area seems to be much worse than your higher elevations such as mountain view, glenwood, Volcano.[]

setting my soul free....

[Carey]

Another handy thing is to do a "search" for flea on the forum. I found that there are 4 pages of threads, some of the threads offer more info than here, on all sorts of remedies, including herbal & silver....

The most common thing I have read is to change your treatment. It seems that any of the treatments that works, has a limited time that they are effective... but that there are a lot of things that can work.

Some of the past posts seem to indicate that if you are ocean front, and upper elevations, there is also less flea problem, but that lower elevations have a huge flea problem. So maybe location of your lot has a lot to do with your flea problems.

FTA: we have had 3 stray/feral cats here. The 2 ferals we have now are indoor only, had Revolution for 3 months & have been flea free for a year. The last stray we had here was an indoor/outdoor cat. In the time we had her, the vet alternated Revolution & Advat (ix or age... forgot!). Our next door neighbor is a 'cat lady' & treats her outdoor only cats with Revolution & has a lot of strays & ferals... & her cats remain fairly flea free (although there was a couple of month that one of her cats went without treatment & actually became very anemic & almost died)

[csgray]

Has anyone tried nematodes for fleas here? We had excellent success using them in our yard in Oregon, but don't know if they are feasible here.



Carol

[cakelady]

Thank you for all the great info! Is lepto something you get a shot for or do you apply a topical medication? Is it something I need to inform my vet here in California about or since we went through the quarantine guidelines do you think it is common knowledge? thanks, Monique

[Carey]

This link has a lot of info on canine concerns with many strains of leptospirosis:
http://www.labbies.com/lepto.htm

for more info, check out a search function like google