I HATE FLEAS!!!!!!!

They are vile creatures that are the bain of my existence, currently... Fuckers keep coming back. I've got Advantage on my 2 cats (both 100% indoors) and am vacuuming like mad for the last month... Our house is entirely hardwood floors and we've got very few rugs, so vacuuming doesn't take too long, but now I find they can live just fine on the hardwood.

Shouldn't Advantage kill the fleas as they jump on the cat?

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Or have a professional come in.. and they'll bomb.

Man, these caged, indoor flea hunts need to be boycotted. Next thing you know you're gonna be wanting to shoot zebras tied to trees....

Poor fleas. Poor, *poor* little fleas...

:hi:

Everyone who doesn't want fleas could send them to you. :eyes:

I always wanted to open my own flea market...

:hi:

:)

teh would b so kewl

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that pwnz

Maybe they're living on you. Put a few drops of Advantage on the back of your neck.

I had the same problem until I got the Raid in the Purple can that kills fleas. You need to spray every surface on your couch, your upholster chairs, bedding, the cat's bed, cat tree, etc., then use the Advantage to kill the last few that are still on the cat. Giving the hardwoods probably wouldn't hurt, they might live in the cracks.

Let that sit for a few minutes/hours, then vacuum if you'd like. That's what worked for me, then just make sure they have the Advantage monthly during flea season.
Good Luck

and it's one the very few products of any kind that I can wholeheartedly recommend because I know from experience that the stuff works and works well.

get a small high powered light source - fill up a plate with soapy water and train the light on the plate of water enough to give it some good heat - do this overnight - the fleas will be attracted to the light but won't be able to get out of the soapy water.

Would a 40w high intensity desk lamp work? Or does it have to be bigger than that (like 500w)?

a desk lamp - anything that will generate a bit of heat, that's what attracts the fleas - so in the morning, if you have a few fleas you've got a bit of a flea problem - but if you catch tons you've got a major flea problem :o

The fleas are attracted to the light and when they jump towards it, get stuck on the sticky paper. Keep replacing the sticky bottom until the fleas are gone. Make sure your pets are flea free or they might keep bringing them in from the outside. Fleas I found out actually live in the rug and jump on the pet to feed, but if you ever lost a pet and were attacked by thousands of fleas afterwards, now you know why. There are sprays to spray the rugs with to kill them as well and then vacuum them up after they are dead.

I I had the same problem, except I have dogs. I did the frontline, vacuumed all the time, and my little flufflerbuts are indor dogs! I couldn't get rid of the fleas! I called my vet. I asked what the heck I can do, it's driving my dogs crazy & me TOO! She told me you have an infestation in your house and you need to get rid of it. She recommended a product called Fleabusters. It's a bit pricy at $38, but it worked instantly! My dogs are happy & so am I!

It's a bit of a PIA because it's a powder that you have to sprinkle everywhere...on and in your furnityre, all over your carpets, in, on and under your bed(s), and everywhere that is not a smooth surface. Then you have to vaccuum it from all those places, but I know I was willing to do ANYTHING to get rid of the problem, and I suspect you are too! The one container covers a lot of area. I have a lot of solid surfacr flooring, but 3 rooms of carpeting, 2 beds, & 3 pieces of LR furniture. I used less than half of the container of Fleabuster powder and then lent it to my DIL and when she returned it I still hae 1.2 the container left.

I can't recommend any product more than this one that really works!
Here's a link to buy it if you're interested.

http://www.onlynaturalpet.com/product_detail.aspx?item_cd=154001&click=5&9gtype=search&9gkw=fleabusters&9gad=1376189913&s_kwcid=fleabusters|1376189913&gclid=CK_z95_Ny5UCFRJuxwodeSu-5w

doors and the dog's yard.

I picked this up in Atlanta from a friend who's dogs never had fleas. She had it planted along the walkway to her door, and you could see the fleas jump off her dogs as the went up the walk.

I had 3 indoor kitties and we had to treat them as well as the entire house. Fleas can be brought in on you or b anyone that comes into your home..

Yes, Advantage does kill the fleas that jump on your cat, but what it really does in break their life cycle.

You will have to use a Spray/Fogger also for the house and vacuum like mad.

We bought it from a neighborhood upper end store, and it turned out to be bogus. The real stuff worked for us.

sprinkle that around on everything (harmless to pets)...then 24 hours later, vacume...DONE! It looks weird for a day with everything powdered but the results are proven! The boric acid kills the eggs.

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Or plain old boric acid which costs more but is a finer powder.

Sprinkle it in your carpet. Dust your upholstered chairs with it. Let the stuff sit for a day then vacuum it up.

Kill bugs dead. Makes their wee exoskeletons dry up and eats away at their nervous systems.

Good for ants too. Mix half Borax with half sugar in an old dishwashing liquid squirt bottle. Squirt/puff the stuff in doorways, windows. The ants go for the sugar and take the bad Borax back to the hill.

took a couple of weeks - but what I did was to mix flea dip and water in a big bucket, mopped the floors with it every couple of days, mixed some up in a spray bottle and sprayed the furniture too

it worked

Revolution, instead. We took in a three-legged stray cutie Torty recently. The stuff worked (we also have wood floors). Try the boric acid or Borax, or, as my local cat clinic suggested, Knockout E.S. area treatment spray, for around the house -- avoid if you have pet fish or birds (it's worked so far, since last year).

You've got an infestation which means the boogers are EVERYWHERE. Get enough bug bombs to cover every inch of the house and make sure they not only kill the fleas but also their eggs (or you'll be doing this perpetually because of hatching eggs). Take the cats out of the house and have them flea dipped while the bombing is going on. If the cats ever go outside or come into contact with other animals, they'll need perpetual flea protection after they're dipped to keep new fleas they may come into contact with from getting on them and creating another infestation. Zodiac flea collars are really good... I don't know if you can do the dip and the Advantage after the dip (ask your vet about that).

I know what you're going through... I've got a flea problem in my house too and will be having the dog and house treated tomorrow before it gets even worse. I think they came from my next door neighbor's dog. They took in a friend's dog and since my pooch and theirs have been playing kissy-poo through the fence, my guy got them too.

According to instructions, any fleas that hop on them will die.

At night, put a small table lamp on the floor...no shade. Put a shallow dish of water in front of the lamp, directly beneath the bulb.Fleas jump at light/heat and land in water. Do this every night until there are no more dead fleas in the water. Honestly, it works!

isn't killing the rest of 'em :)

They can't breed without sucking blood. Are they feeding on you or the cats? If the fleas feed on a treated pet, they not only don't breed, but they die. We live in the country, use Frontline, have dogs and a cat always going in and out. (Knock on wood) No fleas in house for the 8 or so years we've been using Frontline.

A don't know about Advantage. We use frontline because the same formula works on both dogs and cats.

Each day, put them in a different room of your house and close them in there for a few hours. When you do, all the fleas in that room will immediately jump onto them (because they're the only warmblooded creatures in the room), get a load of the Advantage, and die.

This effect will continue to take place as you move them from room to room.

Take it from me. I had two indoor cats that got infested somehow, and they filled my bed with fleas that were eating me alive. After I got Frontline on them both, I deliberately locked them into my bedroom for a few hours. After I let them back out, I was stunned--dead fleas all over the place. Got rid of those and the problem was solved.

I just vacuumed the entire bedroom, moved the bed, washed sheets and all, so the cats in there should get any remaining fleas.

And I ended up with a massive flea infestation..

I wore white, knee high socks and walked around the infested area several times a day, the fleas would jump onto the socks. After I collected a large number on the socks I would quickly take them off while turning them inside out and then drop them in the washing machine set on hot.

It took a few weeks but I got rid of all the fleas without using chemicals at all.

Put this in your yard and anyplace that is dark. It causes the fleas to dehydrate. Be sure you get the food grade not the stuff for swimming pools. The food grade diamateous earth is put in grain silos to kill insects so you and anyone who eats grains have been eating this. It is fossilized remains of diatoms, a type of hard-shelled algae.

This combined with frontline plus should do the job. Be sure you empty your vacuum after vacuuming or the little bugger will crawl out.

Good luck!

Or some other type stay with Insect Growth Inhibitor. It prevents fleas from morphing. You can find a gallon jug at Home Depot for about 15.00. Mop your floors with it.

As well as mopping, spray all surfaces of furniture, beds, pet bedding, ect with it. Repeat 1x week x3. And make all your pets indoor pets or it never ends.

or came in from the outside themselves.

I went to my vets to pick up some medication for my kitty and the fleas were jumping across the front counter while the receptionist went inside to get the medication.

Good point.

Good point.

Hugs

I need that :)

I got the vet to give me enough capstar for each cat. Capstar kills all the fleas on your cat within 90 minutes & keeps killing for 3 days. Once the cats got the capstar, I put advantage on them (the vet said I could do this).

THEN I swept, mopped, and vaccuumed the entire house, even my hardwood floors. I also got some sort of pest control (Bayer) & sprayed the baseboards with it.

You may want to get a new filter for your vaccuum...the little buggers can live in there too.

dg

damn.

if you have a bag vacuum, soak a paper towel with flea killer that kills fleas AND INHIBITS procreation. You can get this stuff at Home Depot. Put the paper towel in your vacuum. Also spray your floors and carpets with the same stuff (it MUST have a reproduction inhibitor in it). You have to do this EVERY TEN DAYS which is the flea cycle for about thirty days. Continue to treat the cats. You'll be flea free then. Change your vacuum bags often.

learned that one the hard way myself. :(

dg

:shrug:

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/needfleas.htm

Homeowners dogged by household fleas need look no farther than the broom closet to solve their problem. Scientists have determined that vacuuming kills fleas in all stages of their lives, with an average of 96 percent success in adult fleas and 100 percent destruction of younger fleas.

In fact, the results were so surprisingly definitive that the lead scientist, an Ohio State University insect specialist, repeated the experiments several times to be sure the findings were correct. The studies were conducted on the cat flea, or Ctenocephalides felis, the most common type of flea plaguing companion animals and humans.

The lead researcher also examined vacuum bags for toxicity and exposed fleas to churning air in separate tests to further explore potential causes of flea death. He and a colleague believed that the damaging effects of the brushes, fans and powerful air currents in vacuum cleaners combine to kill the fleas. The study used a single model of an upright vacuum, but researchers don't think the vacuum design has much bearing on the results.

My wife and I had a flea problem due to a family of raccoons that decided to invade our crawlspace. She was getting bitten nonstop, where I didn't get bite once.

The difference? I was using Irish Spring soap. Apparently they hate the stuff. So, every warm bloodied creature in the house should bathe in it. The original Avon Skin-So-Soft works even better, so I'm told.

There is no difference in soaps or shampoos or anything. Very weird.

(sorry. I was Channeling Bush's 9/11-Iraq logic)

Having rescued many flea-ridden strays I always keep some on hand.

Make sure it's the "Plus", which kills the eggs as well all other forms of fleas.

Costs about 7-8 dollars a can but it's well worth it.

Don't spray on the animals, of course, but use it on the floor, furniture, etc.

Also might want to spray some outside because odds are you are the one who brings in the fleas.

They both multiply far more than they should... you think you've gotten rid of them and a new crop of them appears. They serve only a single purpose... to suck the blood out of everyone for their own benefit.

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I feel your pain. I've been flea combing them like mad, but I know I have to take more action soon.

Works well for keeping the fleas off of them...I'm still working on the rest of the house though :)

then vacuum. My pets are all treated monthly with Frontline Plus. No problems here in flea-infested Florida.

The fleas will die if they feed on a treated pet. You may see new fleas as they hatch, but they should die off. Fleas cannot live on humans, so as long as all the pets are treated, you should see a gradual reduction in fleas until all the leftover eggs hatch.

Good luck with your pest problem! :hi:

We use Frontline Plus and our oldest dog has never had fleas. When we got a new dog that used Advantage, he had fleas when we got him. Switching to Frontline Plus solved the problem.

in something like 2 days. Just put that stuff on your cats and make sure they go to every corner of the house.

Some people having problems that they never had before.

We have a major infestation ourselves with our two cats and a dog.

The Advantage is helping with the cats. The dog hasn't had her Advantage treatment yet as we've been using too many products already. We have to wait until next week.

It's almost painful to watch them suffering.

as the first one wasn't doing crap. After this second round, the fleas are gone from them. I did a crapload of vacuuming the last couple of days and the population seems to be dwindling, but I'm still going to get the purple can Raid to kill them off.