let me start off by saying that i don’t often leave reviews for products. only if they’re either really bad, or really good. this one thankfully happens to be the latter of the two. roughly 2 weeks ago my dog started itching this same spot near her tail. at first i thought it was allergies, until a few days passed and she was letting me rub her belly, and i noticed a flea on her stomach. i picked it off and flushed it down the toilet (if anybody has dealt with fleas before, you know how it is virtually impossible to kill them in your hands).
i immediately started searching for some products to help rid my house (and my dog, of course) of any and all fleas. first of all i bought 2 of the sticky terro traps that are meant for fleas. i put one downstairs next to my dog’s crate (she’s still a puppy so to help crate train she sleeps in the crate at night). i put the other terro trap in my room next to where she lays.
the glue trap next to her cage has caught a handful of fleas so far (not to mention a spider, a fly, and many fruit flies LOL so those are really helpful as well). for context, the terro traps have a lightbulb on them, which attracts bugs with its warmth. this significantly helped bc with the warm weather, i’ve had the air conditioning on in the room that my dog sleeps in, so i assume some of the fleas weren’t fond of this, and gravitated toward the heat emitted from the trap.
now, enough of the terro traps. this spray here.. is amazing. there are 2 different spraying intensities- one is like a jet stream, and the other is more of a mist. both options were helpful. i sprayed it either directly on my dog’s fur (careful near the face!) , or on her brush which i then used on her. this stuff within seconds killed the fleas on her. any that i noticed on the surface of her fur.. one spray and they were falling onto the floor. if they were still moving when on my floor, i’d spray them again but at that point they would die and i was able to flush them.
i used this spray on all of my furniture and carpets. no stains or anything. the smell is actually really nice. a nice spearmint scent. it isn’t TOO overpowering, but either way if it gets the job done, i couldn’t care what it smelled like.
on top of all of this stuff i’ve also given my dog capstar pills. they’re safe to give every day in addition to using other *certain* flea treatments.
so far now it’s been about 4 or 5 days and i haven’t seen any fleas on her, and i’ve been doing thorough searches through her fur
i’m not going to say this spray has single handedly saved me, because i definitely had the help of a few products, but this stuff works amazingly and if you’re having a flea infestation i would HIGHLY recommend it
Active Ingredients: Peppermint Oil...0.30%, Eugenol (from Clove plants)...0.70%, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (plant-derived)...2.70%, Inert Ingredients* ...96.30%, *Water, Sodium Benzoate (preservative widely used in foods).
