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It’s nothing seriously please anything will help thank you

OK this is is what I have done many many times over the years helping friends and family and it works 100% of the time. It takes some time, effort, a little money, and mostly, elbow grease. First thing you need is to purchase some flea killing pills called Capstar. Ebay, or a vets office or online, the animal swallows the pill and 30 min later all fleas are on the ground dead.  Order them today. Then go out and get a good flea med. Some vets won’t give you any if you haven’t been seen by them, so I suggest Frontline from the pet store, use by body weight.  Don’t apply it just yet.  Purchase at least 3 new vaccum filters as the vacuum is your best friend in this scenario.  This requires at minimum a weekend for the initial treatment and then continuing to vacuum daily so suck up any new eggs that hatch. Repeatedly.

Capstar pills, flea meds for each pet, flea bombs for each room of the house except kitchen,  vacuum filters, and most importantly cat carriers or cages or somewhere to place them while this is happening besides the house. 

Now sat morning wake up and get animals out. While they are out give each one a dose of the Capstar pills, a bath,  and then apply the flea med.  Next move all furniture and anything a flea can be under to one side of the rooms and cover with bed sheets.  Next. Vacuum like a crazy person. Twice!  Change the filter and take trash bag with old filter immediately to the outside dump. Vacuum again. Under beds. Under under under.. under couch cushions and anywhere a flea will hide. Closets, etc . Take litter boxes to bathroom and bleach clean. Pick everything up off floors.  Next let the bombs off in center of each room with doors closed and leave the house for alloted time frame.  After that come inside and vacuum good again to suck up all dead fleas.  Now clean off bomb residue off cabinets and stuff and anywhere like tile floors and wipe it all up. Open windows air out a while. Let’s pets back in. Wash sheets covering the furniture.. And put things back. Beside off of floors because you need to vacuum daily for the next 2 weeks.   This will work. It takes effort but will work.  At the 3-4 week mark. I would repeat and bomb again.  At the 4 week mark apply more flea med to animals.   

At some point try to get a better flea med from a vet but for now the frontline will work. Good luck! 

Thank you for your advice, much appreciated! Capstar may work great but, I am not sure how I feel about giving my animals something that they ingest, just seems off putting to me! We vacuum every other day, we have a bagless and wet vac that we use to vacuum our home with. We have no carpet in our home, just hardwood floors so it is a little easier to keep up with. We have tried raid flea spray that you spray around your home, we think it worked a little bit, but where their cat box used to be — we are having no luck there is still load of fleas there. This weekend we are getting the cats flea collars, as much as I don’t want too I think it will work.

Thank you again for your advice!

Ohhh damn, maybe I wont get the collars then. I have tried frontline, it was a waste of money and did not work for us. We vacuum every other day, I will have to try the moth ball thing!

You lock your dog in the bathroom for 8 – 10 hours? If that’s what your saying I object completely!! It sounds like your dog isn’t getting enough human interaction and it is probably nervous around you making it pee when excited. You need to seriously really think if your able to own a dog if you lock it up 8- 10 hours a day in a bathroom. That’s almost cruel in my opinion.  If this is true then this dog is young enough to be re-homed with a family that has the time to love and care and interact and play. This is 9 month old is still in puppy stages and it needs to release energy and play.  You make need a vet to determine if it has any issues but the real issue is being locked in a bathroom!

Being at home all day and being locked in a small confined space with little to no noise at all is not the same thing.   Would you lock a child in the bathroom all day just because it can move around? And  possibly the reason he is peeing everywhere when you take him out is because he is so excited to be out he can’t control himself. Yes a doggy daycare would be much better! This is the reason people dont get dogs as pets because they require more attention and care and people that aren’t home all day should think twice about being dog owners.   It’s my opinion and my opinion only as a animal lover and caring mother that people should not have animals if they have to be confined for over 8 hours a day. Hopefully when it gets older and you come to your senses you can let him roam free in the house. Im sure your a kind person but selfish at that. Since we cannot agree and I dont expect you to do so.. I think you should really understand he is still in puppy age and possibly the peeing everywhere is from sheer excitement and joy that he cannot control himself.  Hopefully someone else will chime in here and offer you better advice.

I am currently a cat owner but have owned many dogs for many many years. I choose not to have one at this time because of my work schedule. I am not a selfish being.  I’m sorry you couldn’t get the sugar coated answer you were looking for. You think this animal is here to appease you for the mere 5 hours a night you are able to be in its presence.  That’s ridiculous.  You came to a public forum and you don’t like what you hear my dear. The facts remain the same. You leave this animal in a bathroom for 10 hours a day and wonder why it’s pissing all over your precious home. I have gave you the answer now pull out the cotton balls and hear me. You are neglecting this dog by leaving it in a bathroom without any contact for 10 hours a day. If you want a better answer then pull out your wallet and take it to a vet and tell him exactly what you said here. Not all dogs are the same. Just because one was able to cope with your situation doesn’t mean this one will. I work with a couple of people that happen to leave their dogs at doggy day care. And another couple that have an entire room devoted to the dog with animal videos playing all day and they also go home at lunch and play and interact with their dogs for 1 hour mid day. Don’t be upset because you refuse to hear the reasoning. Argue all you want. Keep cleaning up pee of that’s what suits you. 

I have to agree with Angela here – you are not meeting the social needs of this dog – and you don’t have to be a dog person to see that. This dog sees the bathroom as its den and so pees in the rest of the house, which is a normal response. Adjust your life to interact with this dog more often or find it a home where it can have its social needs met.

So, there are just so many things wrong about your understanding of how a dog’s mind works in your description that I barely know where to start.  Dogs don’t purposefully try to get humans into trouble like a tattletale.  They are not that evolved.

The points that you have made indicate to me that this dog is truly afraid of the boyfriend – some thing he did years ago convinced her that she should be worried about him, and that has snowballed to what you see today.  It may have been something as innocent as he stepped on her toes by accident.  Dogs read body language and facial expressions better than we humans – and something as small as a look at her could compound her fear.  

This is a very frustrating situation for you, and for the BF – you are both probably giving off negative energy without knowing it!  She is picking up on the human frustration and it will only get worse if you don’t get some professional help.

And NOTHING you can do will solve this problem.  It is a matter between your BF and your dog.  So, you need to find a behaviorist that will come to your home and work with you, the BF and the dog.  The behaviorist will be able to observe the dog and how you both interact with her and help you all find solutions to correct the situation.  It is going to be a matter of your BF building trust with the dog.  And since we can’t be there to watch the interaction, this forum isn’t going to be of much help other than by pointing you to professional, in-the-home, aid.

So, find someone that does positive training that can come to your home, and that you and your BF like so you can help your girl have the life she deserves – comfortable in her own home.

Good luck with that – you need a trainer/behaviorist. Three and a half years – you haven’t solved it by now, you aren’t the going to be able to solve it on your own. Offer to barter with a trainer – clean Thier house, clean their kennel, what ever it takes to get the eyes and hands on help your dog needs to feel secure in her own home.

Well I have found 1 behavioral therapist in my area & she’s still an hour away. It’s pretty expensive since she’s like the only one in this area but I’ve emailed her in hopes of a barter. From what I’ve read she does in home therapy but I don’t know if she’ll drive this far. I feel like if I take my dog to her it may not work as well. It would feel like a trip to the vet for her, she would smell the fear and start shaking & shedding. Wish me luck! On a better note, when I told my partner my wish to have an a behavioral therapist come to our home to help them I feel like he’s made more of an effort to earn the dog’s trust. I feel like when I told him I posted on this forum for help it really struck home to him that I don’t just want to have to deal with the situation I want it to be better. I don’t know why posting for help is any different than our talks about the situation prior to my posting but whatever. Maybe he doesn’t want a stranger in our home. Oh well, that’s a temporary fear, my price, & a possible end to my Charlie’s fear!!! I’ve noticed some improvements since then! The two have been playing for sure whereas before she wouldn’t come near him & yesterday she came up to him! Granted it was no lap call but she let him pet her. I just feel like if he’s more onboard with the idea it will work better. I mean for a while I feel he had given up on mending their relationship. I think what scares her the most is bf’s voice he would never intentionally harm her. He talk too loud because he’s had a lot of hearing loss from his time in Iraq. We’ve been working on that in the meantime too & it helps but it is hard for him to know when his tone gets louder. I’m happier with the results so far but foster hopes that the therapist will understand & barter to come to our home.

Because I am a stickler for accuracy in language: If they’re a mix, then they aren’t purebred.  The word “purebred” means an animal bred from parents of the same breed or variety.  Because you have two different breeds involved, they are a mix.

That said…do they go outside?  Have you taken a fecal sample to the vet annually?  I give heartworm preventative 4x a year – my old man cat doesn’t go outside, and I get annual fecal and blood testing done for him.  Get fecals and blood panels done, at the very least, to make sure everything’s good.  Without a full picture of your cats’ health, you cannot make an educated decision on how to handle medications and the like.

If they go outside, then yes, they should be on heartworm preventative. I would also have them on an external parasite preventative/flea and tick preventative, as well.

Thank you for the answers

Hi Krista,

I did call our local 24 hour emergency hospital and they said to monitor her for any signs of severe lethargy since her appointment yesterday she has seemed fine.. but when I got back home I noticed that she was not normal and was not sitting or using her back legs properly.

Will continue to monitor her until tomorrows appointment. Do you think it could be because she is in pain?

One more thing. Would you suggest me to give her some plain chicken broth and rice until her appointment in the morning or shall I continue to feed her her normal cat food?