You pet dog is the most helpless victim of flea attack. It can only scratch its skin with its paws as a measure to get relief of the itching and give the most appealing look to do something. Yes, my friend you can do many things to fight the stupid army of fleas swarming and marching on the skin and fur of your lovely pet. Here are certain ways to get rid of fleas from your pet dog.

•Vacuum your home frequently and seal vacuum bags before disposing.
•Wash the bedding of your dog weekly in warm soapy water.  This is where fleas usually breed.
•Bathing your pet weekly with a mild dog shampoo prevents flea invasion.
•Use cedar shampoo for your dog, and put cedar oil in their sleeping mats.  Cedar will repel fleas and other insects.
•Fleas are attracted to dry skin, so to avoid it, give your dog Linatone oil mixed with its food. Excessive shampooing should be avoided.
•A mixture of 60 ml of lavender oil with 2.8 liters of rock salt can also be placed in areas where dogs usually come in contact with and this solution could also be used to wash your dog.
•Planting marigolds in the yard is helpful too, it repels certain types of bugs as well as fleas.
•Boiled lemon or orange peel in water can be used as a dip for dogs and can be used too to soak in dog bedding for a few hours, then washed with warm soapy water.
•Lukewarm water with little shampoo and detergent is a good way to prevent fleas.  A dog’s body may be dipped into the solution for fifteen minutes and then rinsed.  This only works if flea infestation is light.

The natural way of treating fleas is effective only if the level of flea infestation is average to very few.  This method usually is recommended for prevention only. Different commercially available products with chemical contents:

•Advantage. Active ingredient is imidacloprid. This is a flea poison, from Bayer.  It is in a liquid form and applied to the skin, at the back of the dog, and works for about a month.  This works by upsetting the nervous system of fleas when they come in contact with the liquid.  This product is fast acting and is not absorbed into the internal organs and bloodstream of the dog.  

Ingredients are: imidacloprid — a chloronicotinyl nitroguanidine integrated from the nitromethylene class of a compound. This joins the  nicotinyl receptor sites of insects, thus upsetting normal nerve transmission which causes death.

•Frontline. This product is very similar to Advantage, but is not water soluble, so alcohol is needed to wash it off.  This can safely be used in pups, dogs, cats and kittens.

Active ingredients include:  Fipronil 5-amino -1- (2, 6-dichloro-4 [trifluoromethyl]phenyl) -4- (1,R,S)- (trifluoromethyl0sulfinyl) -1H-pryazole-3-carbonitrile 0.29% inert ingredients 99.71%.

Fipronil works as a  nervous transmission interruptor, which causes quick death to fleas and ticks. It is proven to kills 96% of fleas for the  first two hours and 100% within 24 hours. Ticks die sooner than they attach themselves to the host.  Fipronil is from the new phenylpyrazole class.