Bugs on 1 year doggie's skin

[pari686]

Hello,
My doggie is one year old. Since last one month we found big as well as small size of bugs toughly sticked on her skin everywhere. They are so sticked its impossible to remove easily.
Please advice

[ainttoshabby]

what color are the bugs, and how big???

[sarah_roll]

This definitely sounds like fleas. I work in a dog grooming salon so i'll give you my recommendations as if you were to walk into my salon with your dog. Immediately get either Frontline, Advantage, Advantix, or the best stuff on the market: Revolution. These type of monthly flea drops are the only thing that will 100% keep your dog free of fleas. If you're using a flea collar take it off immediately! They don't work and all they do is add more toxins into your dog's blood. Also if you give your dog a monthly flea bath to try to get rid of the fleas, stop!! This is very bad for them also because you're adding lots of chemical toxins to their blood, fleas baths should be a very rare event. If you were to walk into a grooming salon with a flea dog we'd give him a flea bath to kill all the fleas that were currently on their body. But don't think this means you're flea free! While you're dog is getting bathed you need to go home and bug bomb your house, with a fogger. If your dog does indeed have fleas then your house has fleas living everywhere, they live in your carpet, in your furniture, and even in your clothes. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're not there, and often times after they're gone they still leave eggs behind, so make sure you do lots of vacuuming too. Once your dog is free of fleas from the bath and your house is free of fleas, you're temporarily in the clear. Wait at least a few days to use the flea drops because your dog just had a high dose of toxins added to it's blood from the flea bath. Make sure when you're putting the drops on that you put it on in the middle of their shoulder blades, on their upper back. It's extremely important to remember to apply the drops the same day every month, if you don't they won't work, it's like birth control. Like I said before Revolution is the top of the line flea/tick prevention, mainly because it also protects against heart worm too, which is usually a whole other process. But if you don't have the money for that, which most of us unfortunately don't, Frontline, Advantage, or Advantix works just as well for preventing fleas/ticks. You can also pick these up at your local pet store, like Petco :) which is where I work. They're usually around $40-$60 for a 3 month package, and unless you want your animal to suffer I think it's a pretty fair price.

Hope this helped! If you have anymore flea questions please feel free to message me or something, I'm not sure if there's even something like that on this site ha but keep in contact if you need me. Or if you have any sort of grooming questions I can probably be of some help :)

[LoveMyBostons]

Are they ticks?? Is she on a monthly flea preventative?