Cat flea collar

spike7451

pink_poppy wrote: »

That must be a hazard for all people who work in other people's homes. Same for Teachers who catch nits off their pupils I suppose!! :eek:

Well, the deed is done... it was a bit fiddly but I think I've managed it... still waiting for the 'mad cat' reaction...

Yup,first & only time since I started with NTL in 1998. Generally,I've found those with money & large houses are the worst for cleaning.The average two up's I've been in are palaces in comparison.

KxMx

If he won't be dropped (not that way!) easily then bundle him up in a towel, so he's swaddled like a baby and can't move his legs to kick.

Fire_Fox

spike7451 wrote: »

Incidentally,it wasn't Orbit who got the fleas,it was ME!!! I'd been working in a particularly stinking hovel of a home that day & bought them home.(I was a service tech for NTL at the time)
I stripped off in the apartment communal hall & burnt my uniform....

To add to this I found a single flea on my pure white indoor-only cat last year - had to have come into the flat on me or a visitor. No other animals in the block AFAIK, certainly not in my corridor. Two of my closest friends also have indoor-only cats, did not have a problem and do not live in stinking hovels! There are rats in our city centre, my best friend lives next to a park, or I could have sat next to the wrong person on the bus.

The house I moved into that was heavily infested .... was in a desirable 'shire village and was purchased from a qualified solicitor. She got a flea in her ear from me when I found out what she'd left behind. :eek:

pink_poppy

The Cat still hasn't had a 'mad moment' as I expected him to, don't know if that's because I didn't get the Frontline in the right place or he wasn't 'flea-ridden'. He seems quite sleepy actually, hard to tell if it's more than usual though

I'm amazed people don't know their houses are flea infested - I'm allergic to their bites (that's how I suspected The Cat had them as I had one on my ankle, plus he was scratching of course). I'm still hoovering, making sure I get into all the nooks & crannies of the settee etc.

Fire Fox, I would imagine it's likely that your seller took a few of her beasties with her to her new home as well - on her animals & in her furniture/soft furnishings etc. She didn't try & palm you off with the 'buyer beware' (of resident fleas!!) argument I hope!! :rotfl: