I was right!
It was the Fur-kid equivalent to head lice. Every parent's worst nightmare...
The babies had fleas!!
Devastation had seemed to be set in.
So in true Andrew style he phoned me, Queen of all that can go wrong with animals.
Sawusband & I are those people, when all that can go wrong with an animal happens to us & by us I mean me. We are the couple who get the dogs with problems & a cat who walks in circles.
Sawusband always says the vets see me coming & then the bills start coming (poor Sawusband)
So being that I am knower of all things Flea related, Andrew had phoned the source(me). My advice was a rather new to the market internal flea treatment & another oral flea tablet that will make them jump straight off.
In true Andrew style, he of course took the flea situation very seriously & went over the top.
He started with flea bombing the house, followed by internal flea treatment for the babies, followed by a flea bath & if thats not enough he was following all this up with flea combing their fur as well.
It wouldn't surprise me if he is in the middle of de-fleaing Gusband & himself at this very moment (probably with a flea bomb).
At this point in time I would suggest that all the fleas in the village have crossed to the other side of the tracks by now!
Who's a lucky dog then. Oscar & Phoebe's will be smelling like roses & not scratching.
As for Henry!
You don't think I have Fleas, do you?
Of course it's not Fleas!!
Andrew you are nothing if not thorough! I wonder where all the fleas have gone to?
I hope it's not your house Campers!!!
Andrew - Over the top? I think fucking not! You can imagine our disgust when sitting patting Oscar I see a little flea. Gusband raced to get the flea comb (another tool we’ve never used but just HAD to have! P.S - Thank God!) Lucy what you fail to mention is that by the time we went to bed on Saturday night we had got every flea off the babies and not an egg was left hiding. And their beds had been vacuumed.
Possibly our behaviour resembled people who suffer from OCD but these thing have to be done. We vacuumed like our lives depended on it and beds, mattresses and anything we could get our hands on has been sterilised within an inch of it’s life.
Now Lucy, I know you told me that these little bastards live in grass and the lady at the dog store said there is a bit of an epidemic going around but holy crap, Oscar is 8 years old and we’ve never EVER had fleas in our house. The kids haven’t socalised with any other dogs in ages so unless they’ve been having parties when we are out I think I’m going to have to take your word for it.
It is possibly the way we have raised them hasn’t helped, like people who don’t let their kids get dirty, maybe there’s no immune system happening there? I’m just pleased that in our time of crisis you were at the end of the phone to tell me the latest and greatest in germ warfare.
You joke about me de-fleaing Gusband and myself but when I was teaching I would do just that. You know how kids can be a little bit gross, well once a term I would make Gusband wash his hair with that lice killing shampoo (me too) and we would both pop a worming tablet. Purely just in case, I’m a “prevention is better than cure” kinda gay. Actually it wasn’t so long ago that Gusband asked what it was I made him take 4 times a year. Trusting isn’t he?
So possibly my secret is out that I’m a bit of a germ-a-phobe and I don’t like things that crawl. And don’t even give me that shit about how lice only like clean hair. That’s just what people say to make themselves feel better. Surely everyone has a 6 pack of flea bombs in their cupboards just in case?
So yes, those 6 fleas never stood a chance in our house and their eggs will never see the light of day but all this talk about them makes me feel itchy so maybe I will go and get some more of that shampoo tomorrow…..
Happy scratching campers. xx
Go Andrew!... I'm with you... better to be too clean than the opposite.....BTW, worming and shampooing with 'nit' shampoo are part of my routine too......
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