fleas! do not know what else to do :(

Fire_Fox

What Emlou said: FC generally comes across as helpful not stuck up, whereas Ruby Moon seems to have a split personality. I'd like to see more of your supportive side!

Ruby if you read the thread again my 'nonsense' about onion and garlic was posted after Charleysez suggested a kitten was given garlic salt. Kittens are much less discerning than adult cats - clay litter anyone?

BitterAndTwisted

rita-rabbit wrote: »

Lets all get environmental sprays other places than from the vets eh?!!

As I said before, it is possible to buy suitable environmental sprays at retail outlets, not just from the vets. I have such a spray in front of me and it contains the following ingredients:

Permethrin - insecticide
Tetramethrin - also insecticide
Methoprene - insect growth regulator

The Methoprene is the important one here, it's the chemical which prevents the adult fleas from laying eggs and therefore breaks the life-cycle of the insect: without IGR any spray's effects will be severely limited. I used this spray when my cats had an infestation and sprayed it everywhere, including underneath heavy furniture. This, combined with Frontline and vacuuming twice a day, resulted in visible results within a few days and the infestation was clear in a fortnight.

So, not ALL sprays bought retail are useless but I do agree that all of the "spot-on" products available in supermarkets and pet-shops are.

timmmers

You can get cats inoculated for fleas...it makes the fleas sterile. Not cheap though.

You can get fumigation flea bombs online that do a room.

I personally have 3 fleabags and bought a steam cleaner which I run round all their sleeping spots, carpet corners and anywhere where fleas can be hiding....then flea the cats.

Now is a good time to rid the house of fleas ...you have a long time before it's warm and they get breeding again, unless you have the heating on high which really gets them breeding.

I've never had a spray that was easy to use or worked...some of them sound like a cat spitting which means bloody hands and no cat around suddenly, I even tried one of those combs that ZAP fleas with electricity...don't bother they don't work.

I haven't seen any for a while, but flea powder works well on cats and furniture.

It's an ongoing battle

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Dave101t

betterbargains4u wrote: »

How long do you leave it on the carpet for?

sorry, lost thhis thread in the vastness of MSE!

you can check on google, but i left it for a good week (tho 2-3 days is average i think), to be sure, then hoovered it all up and did it again. we werent really infested as i only found 1 or 2 a day at this point but once your down to this level, just keep hoovering and salting and anything else you want to do and it will all go away! hopefully!