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<div style="RIGHT: auto">You probably have an infestation of fleas in your house by now too. I don't know that this tip will help you now, but maybe it will help if you do it next year at the sign of the first flea.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Our foster Holly picked up some fleas (at her vet's I think, since it happened just after a vet visit). We were back and forth there, so the next time I went, I asked what to do about it. The vet suggested that I make up a spray bottle with a mixture of Dawn dishwashing fluid and water. She told me to spray it around on the furniture.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">OK, I was a bit apprehensive, but it really helped and did not ruin my furniture (though you might want to do a test spray on somewhere that doesn't matter, if there's a chance your furniture covering will run). I even used it on our mattress, and everything came out fine. I sprayed very throughly and more than once, but in a short time we were flea free.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">The vet told me that if this didn't work, the next step was to use a bomb and evacuate everyone for most of the day--something I can tell you I was NOT looking forward to, especially since our very elderly and incontinent Belvedere was with us then.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">I hope this at least helps those who have sm<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>aller flea infestations. Here in northern New Jersey, I don't get serious flea problems very often, perhaps because the hounds aren't romping outdoors very much.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Oh, Vickie, Sebastian looks so cute! I'm sure he'd never counter cruise, steal food, or chew up anything but his toys--the things that make me think I could never take in a puppy (yeah, right!). I miss having a boy dog around the house since we lost our Belvedere. How I wish I had the energy for a cutie pie like your Sebastian. Those clumsy little puppy legs were just adorable.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Pam, food slave to the Dashing Bassets</div></div></body></html>