Hi
Hoping someone can shed some light on this.  I came downstairs this morning to find lots of maggots on my kitchen floor.  They were not near the bin, that's the first place I looked.  But they were mostly under the back door mat.  I checked the dogs beds but there were none in there.  Some had managed to make it to the living room.  I've got rid of all of them (I think) but I wonder where they would have come from.  I don't feed my dogs raw, there was no meat/foodstuffs around. So I'm at a loss as to where they came from and why they were under the doormat.  My dogs like to lay on the may so now I'm worried that they have maggots burrowing into their fur & skin.  I've had to come to work and I'm panicking now.

Id have a look under your kitchen units . Also could they be coming from the ceiling?  Check the dogs over though for open wounds, its unlikely but not impossible. 

Just been home, all is clear, bathed the dogs anyway. Nothing under the kitchen units or on the ceiling. Just very odd as to why there was so many, surely couldn't have come from 1 fly?

Do you have any fishing people living or visiting

Nope!

>Just very odd as to why there was so many, surely couldn't have come from 1 fly?

umm yes they could ;-), but it could also have been more than one fly :-/

"Egg: The white egg, about 1.2 mm in length, is laid singly but eggs are piled in small groups. Each female fly can lay up to 500 eggs in several batches of 75 to 150 eggs over a three to four day period. The number of eggs produced is a function of female size which, itself, is principally a result of larval nutrition. Maximum egg production occurs at intermediate temperatures, 25 to 30°C. Often, several flies will deposit their eggs in close proximity, leading to large masses of larvae and pupae. Eggs must remain moist or they will not hatch."

From http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/flies/house_fly.HTM

When I was grooming I arranged for a OES to be bought to me on his way to his new home from the NCDL, as it was then, because the owner said that his coat was matted.  It had a fly blown anal abcess, which I discovered after removing his felted coat!  I removed over 100 maggots with hemostats before I sent him to the Vets - trying to avoid him being given a GA.  :( :(

So I would say groom your dogs thoroughly everyday for a while.

No idea how many flies were involved.............

Thanks for all your responses.  I do groom my dogs thoroughly and regularly, as I show them.  Having bathed them both at lunchtime and given them a good check over I am confident that the maggots did not come from them or are /were on them.

eugh!! Maggots like that (big enough to see) would I imagine be from blow flies/bluebottles not houseflies. have you noticed any around recently?
Do you have cats? or dogs who catch/bring in dead mice or birds? I'm thinking that there was something small under the mat, a shrew or sth would be big enough to attract flies but the maggots could have digested it by the time you looked.

anyway, I think you have everyone's horrified sympathy!!

oh, just a second thought, what sort of maggots where they? not rat tailed maggots?

There was nothing under the mat, definitely no sign of something that had been eaten. They were creamy, white maggots that looked like wriggling rice! Yuk!

How gross but if you've ever seen how quick flies are to lay tiny bunches of eggs on a discarded marrow bone in the garden the numbers you had in your house don't surprise me but how they got there is puzzling. I've also seen dogs with fly strike round their back end and I'm told rabbits are prone to it as well.

I lifted a dead mouse one of my cats ( yes you Mungo ) kindly left for me at the side of my bed, he really is a very thoughtful boy.
When I picked it up, there were maggots underneath and as soon as they were exposed to the light, they wiggled across the floor to the nearest cover, so I could see how one of your dogs could have dumped something on the kitchen floor that already had maggots on it, pick it up again leaving the maggots behind, and they squirmed their way under the mat.