Even though I've used that flea medicine the vet gave me, you know the one in the tube that costs alot. A flea jumped on my arm while I was sitting on the couch last night. I now notice my cat is scratching and biting a little. Could there be bad tubes of flea medicine and besides vacuuming what else can I do to put in my carpet that would be safe. I will not use a flea bomb in my house and now I'm skiddish and keep thinking there are fleas jumping on me.
2006-06-20 04:30:42 · 15 answers · asked by Lana 3 in Pets ➔ Cats
Keep a flea collar inside your vacuum cleaner bag at all times. If there are any live ones left and they get sucked up they'll die in there and won't come back out to lay more eggs. You can also get flea traps to set up. They have a little light and attract the fleas to sticky paper. That way you'll know for sure that you got rid of them. Bombs do work well, but if you don't want to use them you may have to call an exterminator. Other than that, keep cleaning. You can use some flea spray, but you'll have to get it everywhere, incl. inside your couch. The good thing about sprays is that they make some that are not toxic to people and pets.
You can dip the cat at home, it's tricky, they don't like it and if there is any fleas left in your home it's basically useless.
Get a flea collar on her nonetheless.
Good luck, dear.
2006-06-20 04:41:30 · answer #1 · answered by Huh? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on the severity of the flea problem and the fact that some of the medicines take a few weeks to do the trick.
If your house is infested, I feel for you. We had no choice but to bomb the place when we had a flea problem a few years ago. It's awful!!
One natural way to help kill them is to put shallow dishes of warm really soapy water down on the carpeted areas, it will attract the fleas and they will drown. It helps, but if it's bad I'm afraid you will have to bomb. :(
2006-06-20 04:37:56 · answer #2 · answered by ... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got to clear the fleas from the garden, sleeping place or other pets that the cat is in contact with daily - otherwise the condition will remain. Flea bites can cause infection.
2006-06-20 04:35:22 · answer #3 · answered by Son of Gap 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this relies upon on what variety he were given. If he were given a cheap variety, it received't paintings in any respect. era. in reality, a number of them are downright poisonous and should be washed off the cat. The suggested spot-on remedies are income, Frontline, and Revolution. be conscious: some cats are allergic to at least one or more effective of those issues. that is not any longer basic even if that is been wide-spread to ensue. Watch your cat heavily for the subsequent few days after utilising the remedy. If there is ANY signal of affliction, take her to a vet on the instantaneous. in case you used one in each of those issues, you need to start up seeing improvements interior of a few days. even if, do not end there. She needs a month-to-month dose of the stuff because the eggs that the fleas are laying now will be hatched and adults laying more effective eggs in a month's time. the in undemanding words thanks to interrupt that cycle is to flea-deal with the cat each month. cope including your position too. If there are fleas on the cat, there are flea eggs contained in the carpet and on the furniture too. Your vacuum purifier is your maximum proper chum in this example. Vacuum on a daily basis. Flea eggs are not any further sticky and receives sucked precise up. Flea larvae, even if, ARE sticky and could no longer get vacuumed up so that you need to ought to save vacuuming until eventually the flea cycle is damaged. Empty your vacuum purifier outside far out of your position after each and each vacuuming. Flea larvae pick to stay in puppy beds because they eat human being flea droppings. They matter on the puppy to come back there on a daily basis so the droppings can fall out of their fur and feed the larvae. Shake the bedding out outside faraway from the homestead on a daily basis. The larvae would follow the mattress, yet you're shaking out its food once you do this. Starve them suckers! finally, in the journey that your cat has fleas, there is an fairly intense danger she has worms too. maximum fleas are contaminated and provides you it to the cat or dogs at the same time as they chew. maximum proper get your cat de-wormed.
2016-11-15 00:41:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to de-flea your whole house....
when you get it ask the person at the store what all needs to be removed before you do the flea-bomb....
eggs are in the carpet or furniture and everywhere else...
my sister had to get rid of all her carpets and call an exterminater to clear their house of fleas
they multiply fast
2006-06-20 04:53:31 · answer #5 · answered by Linnie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use natural flea medication, like lemon oil, on the cat and in the house, they are so much less expensive than frontline or advatix.
2006-06-20 04:35:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
fleas are the worst! try other kinds of medicine and you may have to concider a flea bomb b/c you know how fleas can multiply!
2006-06-20 04:41:35 · answer #7 · answered by Jen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my cat had fleas, and we never used a flea bomb.. there is spray u can buy, and u spray it on the carpet furniture and watnot.. it works very well.. u can frind it at a pet shop
2006-06-20 04:39:40 · answer #8 · answered by Cokierae 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GIVE THE CAT A BATH AND THIN GIT A FLEA COM
2006-06-20 04:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by josh c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
super flea collars, away! Use a flea collar.
2006-06-20 04:36:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋