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I have a 3 year old English Setter that has never had fleas, he is kenneld outside, never treated for fleas, I have gave him maybe 3 yard baths with flea shampoo, is it the color of his coat that keeps them off or am I lucky? I was prepared to battle them when I got a Setter due to the long hair!

Really lucky- I say

Very lucky.

From what I understand Fleas are more present in high humidity areas. When it freeze it kills the fleas. Not knowing where you live... if you don't have any fleas your luckier than most.

MikeB wrote:From what I understand Fleas are more present in high humidity areas. When it freeze it kills the fleas. Not knowing where you live... if you don't have any fleas your luckier than most.

Bingo ! Every place I've lived that had a hard frost didn't have fleas. But then its bone dry here in the summer too.

Quit the flea shampoo if you don't need it.

There's no harder frost then here in Ontario. Flea /heartworm/tick preventions are no longer needed once the ground is hard. Interestingly enough the ground is not hard here yet. Very strange. However, come April , they will be out in full force.

So perhaps its the lack of humidity they can't tolerate. I don't miss them. When I lived in Monterey if you had a dog you had fleas. That led to the use and misuse of every flea product imaginable and the sometimes a missed diagnosis of flea allergies. Products have improved I suppose but all those poisons could not have been good for our dogs.