Breakaway flea collars. They've been on topical drops and the fleas around here are apparently resistant to it

#$&! so we were dealing with that for a hot week. Happened around the time it warmed up here and the neighbors "crusty white dogs" kept running over here right up to our fence to bark at our dogs. Pretty sure they shared their friends/hitchhikers with Rip and Rev.

The vet said they don't even carry topical drops anymore because the fleas around here are resistant to it more times than not so we went with the 8 month long flea collar over having them ingest something... it's been doing a great job though! Started out with finding a flea or two on the dogs and soon as I did we were vacuuming every surface, dawn dish soap bathing the animals, flea combing, washing blankets daily while giving the collar a chance to release treatment over their skin. Never in my life of owning dogs have I ever had to deal with fleas! Thank God we were swift about dealing with it before it ever got a chance to get out of control. Still exhausting

but glad it's over almost as quickly as it came.