getting rid of fleas?

luxor4t

Just sending sympathy and hopes for a swift resolution!

Our cats are long gone to Moggy Heaven, but I remember the horror of dealing with fleas! (and the shock of seeing the carpet literally m-o-v-e with the tiny invaders after we came back from holiday......)

anotheruser

Just to confirm

Frontline = BAD BAD BAD
Advantage = Good!

I am in contact with Frontline about a refund as it's clearly not worked. At all.

jellybeantinker1

We had some kittens about 12 years ago, but ended up having to re-home them as they affected my husbands asthma.

Unfortunately, they must have arrived with some fleas, even though we had been told they had been treated, as four weeks later we started getting bitten (as the cats were not the host). As it was summer, we initially thought gnats, but extremely itchy, nothing like a gnats bite and also looked different.

We then realised fleas when we found one on the carpet.

I tried EVERYTHING! Sprays from the pet shop, about 4 canisters from the vets, a bowl of water on a white sheet with a light over it (basically any ridiculous suggestions I found on the internet, I tried!)

The only one I found to work was SALT....plain fine cooking salt...(not rock salt).

It suggested covering everything...and I mean everything in cooking salt. I bought 20kg of cooking salt (usually come in 1kg bags and is cheap).

I spread it over all the carpets, on the mattress, on the dining chairs, on and down the back of the sofa, paying attention to getting it into corners......everywhere
I had already washed everything. Keep everything off the floors.

You then turn your heating on to full....I mean full, so it is as hot as it can be.

You then go and live with someone else for about 2-3 days (obviously cats need to go somewhere too).

You return, turn your heating down...hoover everywhere and hopefully you won't have any more issues.

The heat draws the fleas out of their eggs, or wherever the little critters are hiding and the salt dries them out.

Just keep hoovering too.

I found one on our bedroom floor about 6 weeks afterward, then no more. It worked for us as we then didn't have the cats anymore, but if you have problems, they will be in your home.

Hope this helps in some way.....we have a dog now which doesn't affect hubby and we use Stronghold for him and have never had an issue.

loocyloo

thanks everyone ... well, the indorex and advantage hadn't arrived before we went away for a week!
but I was rigorously grooming the cats several times a day before we went and had got them down to a few fleas! plus using a bob martins flea spray.


we got home and hurray! the indorex and advantage had arrived! ... groomed cats - quite a few fleas, but not as many as I thought there might be, and as we'd shut most of the doors in the house, and only have carpet upstairs, I knew where they would be sleeping! I kept watching the floor but it wasn't jumping! ( seen it do that at someone elses house! ) ...
put advantage on the cats and then sprayed house - large old house with wooden floor ... took 1 1/2 cans of indorex and since then ... removed one flea from each cat each evening ( obviously picking them up outside somewhere ) and we have no bites!


Thanks jellybeantinker for the salt suggestion - sounds good ( and relatively cheap and easy! )

beakysian

Perhaps make sure you have more Indorex on hand before the autumn heating goes on in case any dormant eggs hatch out once more. I moved into an empty house last year and triggered a terrible wave of fleas (eggs presumably left by previous tenant's animals). I treated it with the vet stuff but you've reminded me to be on guard over the next few weeks!

loocyloo

beakysian wrote: »

Perhaps make sure you have more Indorex on hand before the autumn heating goes on in case any dormant eggs hatch out once more. I moved into an empty house last year and triggered a terrible wave of fleas (eggs presumably left by previous tenant's animals). I treated it with the vet stuff but you've reminded me to be on guard over the next few weeks!

:0D I have 2 more cans ready and waiting !!!!

bethl79

We use advantage too, have done ever since getting our first cat 5 years ago, am happy to say it has always worked really well.