Alternately, you can have your dogs dipped when they get fleas. The vet will do it for a small fee and it usually works for about a month. Short of prevention, this is one of the best ways to treat fleas. To prevent this, you may want to use flea collars. They are cheap, however, so it s never a bad call to use one and hope that it at least reduces the number of fleas on your pet.
Dogs seem to hate sprays the worst apparently they irritate the skin.
They also work fabulously, usually keeping fleas off for a couple of months. In application, use gloves and ruffle the dog s fur, spraying affected areas. As said, dogs hate this and it does stink, but it works wonders. This is time-consuming and can be dangerous to your pets if they get into it, but it kills fleas. If there are no fleas in your house or yard, there will be none on your pet.