Sprinkle salt on your doormat and carpets. Salt is safe except on plants, but it does kill fleas.

Check with your vet as to the monthly treatment s/he recommends. I'd take the collar off the dog, and when the Pet Armor wears off, try something else. Don't buy something at the grocery store, please. There are many, many topical and oral treatments for dogs, and apparently the one you are using is not working. I prefer the pill form rather than having anything on the dog's fur, but at this point you need something that works!! I'm using Comfortis, but I'm not saying that will work for you.

In the meantime, if at all possible vacuum the rugs every day which will make a big difference, wash the dog's bedding (daily best) or at least put it through a rinse cycle in the washer or take outside daily for a good shaking. If the dog sleeps with a human, you may wish to forego that for a while. Take your dog outside and brush him with a flea comb.

With the flea meds available for dogs and cats now, you can get this situation under control. Don't despair! It will take some effort but will be worth it.

PS After you vacuum, remember those fleas might be able to crawl out of the vacuum, so empty the bag, take the vacuum outside or do something to prevent them exiting the vacuum in your home. Below is a link to some of the flea products available.

http://www.simplesteps.org/greenpaws-products#/h/+/+/+

Ridding the fleas of the house will be an endless battle if there are nests of them out in the yard and you're not treating the yard on a regular basis. As mentioned above, the stray cat is not bringing in the infestation you're seeing. If the dog goes outside and returns with fleas, then you've got them breeding in the yard. Since bombing the house doesn't reach all the crevices fleas can hide, you'll need to clean, vacuum and wash anything washable in the house on a regular basis while you treat the yard.
I suggest you talk to a pest control company and see if they can treat the yard and under the house (if you have a crawl space). By the time you buy all the products you need for this battle, you may fine paying someone is more economical than you think.

Also, walk around your yard and see if there is any collection of debris near the house that offers fleas a spot to breed. I think cleaning out around the house and applying several yard treatments will help you win this battle.

I had a similar problem. Some neighbors moved in next door and brought them. What ended it-- you must go to your vet for a prescription for Trifexis. It is a pill you give your dogs once a month and you will not have any more. It is worth it. I wish I had some natural remedy but this worked unbelieveably.

I would not normally believe it, and had tried everything. The topical things, the sprays, the baths, the collars. The flea trap with a light and glue paper. Nothing worked. I was at my wits end. I brought my dog to the vet and the fleas jumped on him and I was so embarrassed. He got me a script for this.

I took it home and gave it to my dog. I was holding her on my lap, and all of a sudden, fleas started jumping off, they were dying. It must have been fifteen minutes. I couldnt believe it and I still dont believe it. But we never had a problem again in that house with fleas, as long as the dogs were on trifexis.

Try it. When you remove the hosts for the fleas (the dogs) by vaccinating them, the fleas will go away.

The new neighbors moving in and infesting your yard and dog with fleas is a similar statement to the one about the cat infesting your yard.

I do hope the OP does some reading based on earlier posts and comes up with a multifaceted approach to flea control including the areas of outside pest control, inside pest control, and flea control on the dog. Each of these three areas will likely require multiple tools!

The "miracle drug" includes an ingredient common to multiple other OTC "miracle drugs" readily available.

In that the OP posted and ran, I've moved on. However, for any future readers I would only suggest that killing fleas ONLY on the dog is not the solution.

I hope the op comes back to acknowledges the replies. I did think of something else which I have not tried, don't know the safety for pets, or how the product is applied in the yard, but it's "flea nematodes." I think I saw them on Amazon and maybe HD. Might be worth checking out.

This really works for me: vacuum carpet and dispose of bag outside; sprinkle regular salt on carpet, couch, cloth chairs, and leave salt down for three days; then vacuum up salt. Repeat if necessary. The salt prevents the flea eggs from hatching. I don't even have any animals, but the strays, squirrels, etc., bring fleas to my yard and they must ride indoors on my clothing. This is absolutely the worst time of the year for me with so many flea bites. Now if I could only find a solution for outdoors!

Years ago a neighbor of mine tried every cheap natural treatment for fleas she could find. It would have been cheaper in the end to have gone to her vet and gotten effective treatment from him. Don't bother with drivel on the internet and stuff from the drugstore. Go to your vet.

I tried everything. Sprayed the yard, sprinkled Borax and salt all over the carpets, vacuumed and put all the stuff from the vacuum in a sealed bag and then into the freezer overnight to kill them all off and fogged with the Hot Shot bombs from Walmart ( which are guaranteed so I am sending off the receipt for my refund).
Nothing worked, the dogs were covered with fleas and scratching non stop and I had fleas jumping on my legs and had bites all over from the knees down. Very unsightly.

I went to the vet and got Nexgard chewables for the dogs and 3 professional bombs for the house, cost around $100. to $110. and it was money well spent. I will keep spraying the yard. I believe squirrels brought them in. I stopped feeding squirrels.

Dogs and I are very much happier now.

Get a recommended flea treatment product like the two posters above. I agree with ct, you can monkey around with all the alternative treatments, but in the end Nexgard, Comfortis and the other vet-recommended treatments are what help the most. They are wonderful products keeping dogs and people comfortable and vast improvements over the nasty flea collars and powders we used to have to use. I really don't care to use these chemicals on my dog, but it's a quality of life issue for humans and pets, so I do it.

The drugs that you are suggesting will not cure a large flea infestation alone. Eradicating a flee infestation is a multi-pronged approach as I stated above.

Ask your Vet. ;-)

I just posted this in another thread but thought it would be good to crosspost here. Also, thanks for the tips on effective treatments for dogs!

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I have been very happy with a non-toxic trick I use to get fleas out of carpets. Before you go to bed, take a shallow, shiny metal pan - I use a pie pan - half fill it with water and a couple of drops of dish soap. This breaks the surface tension of the water. then aim a light directly into the pan. Since it is the only light source, the fleas jump toward the light and then fall into the water and drown. When you wake up you'll see lots of drowned fleas in the bottom of the pan. I just kept doing it until we stopped catching fleas, and moved it into different rooms every night or two.

I haven't had fleas in 10 years, since I moved to the High Desert but recently moved back into an area that is less desert and more suburb. Low and behold, a flea has been spotted! just another reason to not be excited about living in town. Good to know that they could have been carried in from elsewhere and my dog isn't to blame. She has only been in the house and back yard for the last month.

Dawn

Blue Jean baby- See my above comment. I did the pan of water and dish soap with the light above it and it worked, too. I had so many dead fleas in there it looked like you had ground fresh pepper in there. I also walked by and had about 20 fleas jump on my feet and lower legs and I picked them off and set them in the water.

The thing that finally ended the flea problem was the Nexgard from the vet ( just to add, when the dogs no longer taste good, who do you think the fleas will use as a fresh blood source? answer: YOU)!

I got the bombs from the vet, too and threw out all the other carppy ones; they didn't work. I do still spray the dog's yard and have not seen a flea since.

I wasted soo much time and money on trying the cheap things. Borax and salt in the carpets, vacuuming a lot ( that helped) ACV sprayed on the dogs and in their water.

The dogs were miserable and I was too getting bit up and them waking me up.

The most sensible thing you can do is just get the stuff from the vet.

I use nothing but Flea Treats for my 2 dogs. It's been 3 years since I was able to find a single flea or tick on thm.

i use the seresto flea/tick collar. it made a dramatic difference in the number of ticks i found on the dogs (only 2 or 3 all spring/summer) and it lasts 8 months.