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Food grade dimustaceous (sp?) earth. Talk about messy! But sprinkle it all over, leave it for a day. Vacuum it up. That will kill everything alive. It is perfectly safe for you and your pets, you can even eat it. Just be careful not to get the dust in your eyes. You can even rub it into the cat's coats as a flea treatment. Don't get it in their eyes.
Now, you have the eggs to deal with. Cut a flea collar in pieces and put it in your vacuum cleaner - either the bag or the canister and vacuum EVERYTHING fabric/carpet/upholstery every other day for a couple of weeks. The vacuum will suck up the eggs, and the flea collar in the vacuum will kill them.
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LawyerLady
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
The cats don't go outside. I'm pretty sure the pesticide/lawn treatment covers fleas. I will double check.
I have tons of borax. I'll try that. Thanks!
We may have to take apart our bed and put it in the living room. The vacuum doesn't fit under it.
I hate bugs.
But you and your family do go outside.
The fleas have to come in on something.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Tang, along time ago I had to deal with fleas. As someone else said fog the area and repeat a couple of days later to get the ones hatched from the eggs.
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Not an indoor pet person here, so no advice. Although when Fluffy the hamster came back after her ordeal at the neighbor's house, I bought some flea stuff for hamsters and rubbed it all over her coat.
Not an indoor pet person here, so no advice. Although when Fluffy the HOUSE RAT came back after her ordeal at the neighbor's house, I bought some flea stuff for hamsters and rubbed it all over her coat.
Food grade dimustaceous (sp?) earth. Talk about messy! But sprinkle it all over, leave it for a day. Vacuum it up. That will kill everything alive. It is perfectly safe for you and your pets, you can even eat it. Just be careful not to get the dust in your eyes. You can even rub it into the cat's coats as a flea treatment. Don't get it in their eyes.
Now, you have the eggs to deal with. Cut a flea collar in pieces and put it in your vacuum cleaner - either the bag or the canister and vacuum EVERYTHING fabric/carpet/upholstery every other day for a couple of weeks. The vacuum will suck up the eggs, and the flea collar in the vacuum will kill them.
Thanks so much, LL!
i never would have thought of putting a flea collar in the vacuum. I've been emptying it in the outside trash, but I was worried there might be eggs in there still.
Not an indoor pet person here, so no advice. Although when Fluffy the HOUSE RAT came back after her ordeal at the neighbor's house, I bought some flea stuff for hamsters and rubbed it all over her coat.
No no. My cats never had fleas until I moved home to RI from CO. Never had a single flea while living in CO and wasn't thinking about them when we moved back. That's why it got so bad, I had forgotten about fleas...lol
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When pooch first got them 1 of those little liquid capsules that you drip on the back of their neck and down their back did the trick. This most recent event (2nd time in 8 years) took FOREVER to get rid of. Tried lots of things, but they were all in the furniture and stuff. Ended up doing a salt/baking soda mix to cover all the area rugs and living room furniture (dog stayed in bedroom all night) then cleaned it up in the morning. Washed all the dog's living room blankets, bed, etc. Then during the day Pooch stayed in the living room (he had already been treated)and the bedroom got a full linen strip and salt/soda covering that I cleaned up that night. *sigh* Didn't work. Ended up finally buying an aerosol can of spray. Sprayed the dog, sprayed the bedroom during the day and kept dog in living room. Then switched (spraying the dog again) and rewashed all the linens again.
Then sprayed Pooch again.
It took a large combination of attempts. Also tried flea shampoo. Gave him a bath, dried him off and immediately saw another flea. FML. The aerosol spray was the only thing that worked.
Great news on the diatomaceous earth. Once you're gotten
rid of the buggers, treat your carpets to a weekly dusting of
equal parts borax and baking soda. It keeps the buggers
from coming back, and also works as a carpet cleaner.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I have my lawn treated several times a year for bugs, fleas included. Could be why Sonny boy has never had fleas, well plus I use the monthly treatment.
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We had a whole bunch of squirrels at one time, and that's when we had a flea problem in our yard.
We treated the yard weekly with sevens dust.
Monster had a few on him but he is always being treated so they never stayed long.
Spot had a hard go of it.
He had to get treated daily, his area, and his house, too.
But after we got rid of the squirrels, the fleas were gone.
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Okay. I put out the DE. It looks like someone set off a flour bomb in here.
Fingers crossed that this kills all of those dang fleas.
You got food grade, right? And yes, that is what it looks like. It vacuums up well, though. You will have to clean out your vacuum when you are done.
Yes. 100% DE.
we ordered new filters for our vacuum for when this is all over.
Some sites are saying to reapply the de every week? Did you need to do more than one treatment?
No - we did it once. And then we treated all the animals and vacuumed almost every day with the flea collar in the vacuum for 3 weeks. We did rub the animals down with the DE a couple more times.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
We only have carpet in our bedroom, and a few rugs around the rest of the house.
I'm still not sure where they are hiding, I never see them just keep getting bitten.
No new bites since I put out the DE. I think it's working.
