what is the best way to kill all those fleas
 

... all of them.
I am not the only one who suffers from those fleas but also my dogs. They scream almost every night. Every summer, they become the whole giant army appear everywhere in my back yard. We have been using the insect terminate or terminator something from Home Depot and Walmart. Usually it works but this summer there are much more of them. Every time I got to this particular corner of the back yard, they are on my legs. I spray this thing everywhere in the back yard several times daily since weeks now and they are still there, 6 one gallon bottle already.
Originally these fleas are not from my dogs. We can tell they are from the Possum. I hate these Possum too. I tried to chase them away, hit them with stick, shot them with bb gun and no help. Now, their fleas are another reason for me to ready to kill them all.
Anyone know a good way to chase them both away, Possum and fleas?

Does these little guys have prison tats or something? How do you know they are from Folsom? No fleas up here, maybe you're the reason! :D

hahahaha... well Dave, they are concentrated in a corner of the yard and we usually found the Possum there behind the barn (not sure if this is the right word to use). Actually, one of my little dog found and killed of the small Possum there before the bigger Possum chased him around. I came out at night and saw my dog was running first, while crying, after him was a biggo Possum chasing after him... showing his fangs.
Hey I really need to kill thes fleas.

WTF's a folsom??? An opossum?
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1215324486.jpg

Another thing, what kind of dog do you have?

I'm stumped and Google is no help!

What the heck is a "folsom"? Is that another name for a possum?

sorry guys. Why my E is so bad. It's probably possum. Not to blame but I always hear pople call it possum and never have a chance to write about it. I will make correction.

Folsom = possum in Romania...

sighh... so I was correct, then I thought I wasn't, now I knew I was correct. What am I going to do? Edit the term again? Alright, back to Folsom.
Thanks Danny.

LOL. Dude, I'm just kidding. I have no idea how to say "possum" in Romania and I had no idea you were from Romania. It's "possum" or "opossum".

http://la.metblogs.com/archives/possum.jpg

Ah jeez, this is too much! Quoted for future laughs. :D

What the H. You made me change the word again to Folsom. Now I gotta a change it back to possum? Who said english is easy?

My Romanian is a bit hazy.

I got more than I wanted when I searched "Folsom" in Google images with no image filter. :eek::eek::eek:

I had a possum living under my house and the fleas were insane. My cat, who never went outside, had fleas from the possum.

First thing: get rid of the possum! Trap it, or call a wildlife rescue service to trap it. Get rid of anything in your yard that attracts possums (dog food, water bowls, dropped fruit, etc.).

Then, treat your dogs with a flea medication (Frontline, etc.). Keeping the dogs inside during flea season will help, too. What kind of dogs are they? If long-hair, you may want to have them shaved in the summer to make it easy to see/remove the fleas. Brush the dogs daily. Bathe weekly.

Treat your carpeting indoors with boric acid (powder!). This will eradicate the eggs.

Final advice: Dogs + fleas = headache. Get a cat.

Stop it Dave. If you were to speak another brand new language, we would have much bigger laught. Anyway, I learn more this way.

Danny,
The Possum used to live in the corner of the property but now they are gone since we fight them too much. But they still come back at night for the fruit. We have some trees here. Many times I caught those 2 bright eyes up on the trees.
Yes, we shower and treat the dogs often. But it only clean the dogs, from fleas, for only couple weeks. This summer season, shower and medication only work for a day or less on the dogs. These are little dogs, we have long hair and short hair both.
Yes, headache.

I've made my fair share of mistakes in other languages. I believed Danny for a moment as well, then I too searched Google and found out folsom = folsom in Romanian, I was even going to call a Romanian friend up!

Besides, Livi gets it too. Ask him about fluffing some time.

So RNLN...are you Romanian?

Here's a folsom from the backyard of my parent's house in Dallas:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1215325811.jpg

I named the photo "folsom.jpg" so maybe it will make its way to the Google image search results one day.

:D

Best,

This image just kills me. I think it is legit.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1215325977.jpg

That's some funny sheet...

No I am not Romanian.

What is your native language?

I am vietnamese and vietnamese is my native language.

If the dogs are small, keep them inside.

It only takes one second for the fleas to migrate from the possum to your dogs. When I tore up a floorboard in the house (trying to find the possum hideout), I was instantly covered with fleas. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.

What are you treating the dogs with? Frontline/Advantage, etc. should be good for several months...

How's this?: danh từ - (thông tục) thú có túi ôpôt ((cũng) opossum)

P.S. - Can you hook me up with a Vietnamese wife?

Not sure what it was, the label is off the bottle. I bought it at a pet store.

What it said there is an animal with a pocket. People, if don't know possum yet, would think it's a Canguru because it's is a famous animal anyone would know.

Vietnamese wife? Sure, if we have a chance to visit the country in the future :)

Advantage/Frontline is available by prescription from your veterinarian. It works very well.

"Animal with pocket" is a marsupial, which includes possums, kangaroos & koalas.

Let me know when you're going to Vietnam again. I'll give you my pic and you can shop me around!

From the opossumsocietyus.org website:
An opossum can safely be trapped by leaning an empty, tall kitchen trash can at approximately a 30-45º angle against something the opossum can climb onto such as a stack of books. Place cat food or ripe fruit at the bottom of the trash can. The opossum will be able to climb into the trash can but will be unable to climb or jump out. Immediately take the trash can outside. Tip the can on its side and the opossum will leave when it feels it is safe to do so. This is best done at dusk. If it has to be done during the day then tip the opening towards a dense shrub where the opossum can hide until nightfall.

They were all for leaving them alone in your yard, so this was from the "opossum stuck in garage" question.

More:
Question: How do I trap and relocate an opossum?


Answer: Do not trap! Opossums are normally transient animals, staying only 2-3 days in an area before moving on. Removal is neither necessary nor desirable. If opossums were eliminated from an area, the population of roof rats and other pests would proliferate. Opossums serve an important role by controlling the unwanted, harmful pest population around our neighborhoods. So now we should ask you a question. After learning about the benefits opossums provide, why would you want to trap and remove an opossum?

Trapping and relocating does not work. If you are determined to remove an opossum then encourage it to do so on its own by removing whatever is attracting it to your area. You must determine what is attracting the opossum to your area and remove the attractants or other opossums and animals will come and fill the vacated niche. Opossums are usually attracted by pet food left outside and dense shrubs to hide under.

· Do not leave pet food out at night

· Do not leave garage doors, pet doors or unscreened windows open at night.

· Do pick up fruit that has fallen from trees.

· Do cover garbage cans at night.

· Do clear dense bushes, woodpiles and other hiding places.

If you are determined to trap then please contact a humane trapper. Make sure the opossum will be trapped safely in a humane trap AND released unharmed. Please do not trap during the spring to fall baby season or animals may become orphaned and die.

You can be sure of one thing:

Question: Opossum Pooping in yard


Answer: An opossum won't poop all over the yard, it will poop in a secluded area (they don't like to be out in the open at all) surrounded by at least two shields.

They like to poop in piles of leaves or other rotting foliage, they also tend to poop right after they eat or drink, so if there's a food or water source left out in your backyard all night, they would be attracted to it. Keep your yard clean of leaves and debris.

Keep the opossum from entering your yard at all. Keep all trees and shrubbery trimmed away from the fence. Don't leave out any food source or fallen fruit from trees. Make sure your sprinklers come on just after dawn (optimum time for plant absorption anyway) so that no water is pooled up around the sprinkler head for opossums to use as a water source.

Some people have suggested placing mothballs around, mothballs are toxic and if left outside will seep into the soil and into the ground water system, polluting the environment.

I have heard of people having success leaving “predator feces” along their fence line, so opossums will not enter their yard. Visit your local zoo or animal exhibit and ask for a small amount of fox, coyote, mountain, bobcat, etc. feces to strategically place in access points to your yard.

The sucker that was living under my house had been there for a year. I left him alone until I realized he was the source of fleas. I rolled some flea-bombs & smoke under the house like grenades...I think he finally got the message.

Whoops, looks like trapping and relocating opossums is illegal without a permit.

So much for that image.
Hey, I didn't write the chapter. Must have been cozy, satellite or cable?

From another website, probably a little more true to rnln's current problem child.

Opossums Living in Your Yard

Opossums prefer to live in wooded areas near streams. Cities and suburbs provide adequate food and shelter. Common den and resting sites include abandoned woodchuck burrows, hollow logs, wood or brush piles, under buildings, elevated sheds, openings under concrete slabs and porches and access to crawl spaces under houses. Inside the cavity a nest is made of leaves and grass. Opossums are capable climbers and may take shelter by day in trees or old squirrel nests. Most animals only use our home temporarily during March through August to raise their young. If at all possible, consider “living with them” until the young are on their own at approximately 5 months of age.

I'm not sure living with them is the best thing to do though. Things might get a little itchy.

Where? In Kalifornia or the rest of the country? It ain't no federally protected animal...

I wasn't calling you out with the "BS" gif, but the "Possum Huggers" who wrote the paragraph you were quoting.

He burrowed under the house (it was up on piers), through the floorboards and was living INSIDE the wall of the cast-iron tub.

Heh, looks like. It's the Wildlife Rescue, located in.... Palo Alto, California. :rolleyes:

I know. SmileWavy I just get defensive like that. Yo!

Danny,
thanks Danny. Sure I will. BTW, I thought your pic is your avatar.
Smoke works with Fleas too?

sloDave,
Cool, I will try that trash can thing. Thanks.
wow, I didn't know trapping, killing that ugly and problem maker rat is illegal. Lucky I didn't know how to. If I did, I would kill them all. Right now, my problem is not possum but their fleas. I am sure they will come back for my fruits. Oh yeah, they tried to catch fish in the pond too.

Thanks guys.

The woman in my avatar was to be my wife. Unfortunately, she is in prison for the next 10 ~ 20 years. I don't think I want to wait that long. She killed her last husband anway, so...

Here is my pic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...h/JohnWarf.jpg


No, smoke doesn't kill fleas. Don't try it! I used smoke to encourage the possum to leave my home.

Here, smoke would only encourage your neighbors to call the fire department.