My cat has fleas! I have bombed the house, bathed her 2x, gave frontline, and coller! And I have 2 babies help

Answer 1

Baby fleas hatch (eggs are nearly indistructable) into your nicely bombed house every few days. You have to treat at least 2 more times, a week apart. You also have to treat your yard. You are tracking them in like mud from the outdoors.
There are sprays for outside at hardware and pet stores. Read and follow the instructions to the letter. Pay close attention to the "re-treat" section. You guessed it, gotta treat a few times.
Toss the collars, they are pretty much pointless and can be dangerous to your babies.
Vacuuming also helps, get under furniture and don't forget hardwood floors. The little buggers don't need carpet to hide, they love base boards. Vacuum beds, people and pet. Wash everything that will fit into the washer.
Good Luck

Answer 2

If the cat is an outside cat your going to have at least a little problem until the weather gets rid of them. Your cat may have all that on her but the fleas won't die until they bite so from the time they get on her and she goes in the house if they didn't bite yet your gonna have some fleas. If she is just an inside cat get her checked out and get a professional flea bath done, the flea shampoos don't always work. The collar really only keeps them away from the face so they still hang out around the tail area.

Hope that helps. ^.^

Answer 3

You have to vacuum like crazy - every day, especially after you have done the bomb. Anywhere and everywhere the cat is allowed to go. Change the litter box every day - all of it. Dump it and seal the bag. After you vacuum, dump the vac bag and seal the bag. The adult fleas may die, but you have fleas in 3 stages growing in your home, so you have to continue to clean ferociously until at least 3 weeks. Also if the cat is an outdoor cat (which you really should not do as it is not cool for the neighbors when the cat poops in their gardens or pees on the car windshield... and the cat can get hurt too) - but if the cat is an outdoor cat, you will have a much bigger problem on your hands. Good luck.

Answer 4

Someone already mentioned this above but I thought it deserved another shout-out because it's the only thing I have found to work. Go to Walmart and buy a powdered laundry soap called '20 mule team Borax' (it comes in a box). Sprinkle all over your carpets, rugs, couches ect. Leave it on at least 24hrs or up to a few days. Repeat this process as needed. I promise in a few days your fleas will be gone. Also, keep your cat indoors, the fleas are being brought in from outside.

Answer 5

Hi Becky...fleas have a lifecycle which cannot be instantly eliminated. Frontline and a flea collar combined can be a deadly combination for the cat as you are doubling the insecticidal toxins that is absorbed into the cat's skin. Young human babies can be accidentially chemically burned if they touch the collars.

Consider sponge bathing a cat by using a damp washcloth with Pert Plus (not plain Pert) daily for a week...The human shampoo Pert Plus kills fleas but has little or no residual effect. In general, if a product contains pyrethrins and the label states that it is safe for cats and kittens. http://greyhound.marinar.com/html/faq.shtml (See section Special Medical Issues - 3rd paragraph).

http://www.k9web.com/dog-faqs/breeds/greyhounds.html#smp (fourth paragraph)
Products containing Pyrethrins are generally safe to use... Additionally, the human shampoo Pert Plus kills fleas on the dogs, although it has little or no residual effect. Lather, wait a few minutes, and then rinse.

Be sure to thoroughly rinse all shampoo residues so that the kittens do not ingest as it may still be upsetting for their sensitive systems.

For around the home use Borax on the flooring...kills fleas both by causing dehydration and by acting as a stomach poison in a matter of minutes. In laboratory tests boric acid damaged sperm and caused miscarriages. Just sprinkle and vacuum up and repeat two weeks later. http://www.pesticide.org/fleas.html (See section Less Toxic Chemical Controls)

Answer 6

Ok, you will have to continue treating the furniture and carpet in your house at weekly intervals. The fleas will go through different stages and while you are killing some of them, the ones that have yet to hatch will just make more fleas-a never ending cycle. If you are having a problem with fleas biting children, bathe them with Ivory soap (fleas dont like the smell) and/or make a very diluted spray of mostly water with a little vinegar in it and spray on the children. Make sure to get this in the hairline. Fleas hate this smell also and wont bite your children. Hope this helps you.

Answer 7

vacum, carpet clean, treat the floors, the couches the curtains totally clean everything and treat. after vacumming first time at complete clean get rid of bag everything from teh first clean like rags wash immediately. wash bedding in hottest water you can and dry on hottest setting you can. After first vacum put a flea collar in the bag if bagless empty take it outside and dispose of it. Fleas dont' like ecaluptus, lavender, or garlic. Put some garlic powder either in the cat food or water. if they won't do it put the garlic on teh floor and let set and vacum. they also have the powder they sell at stores for this purpose. be sure to clean bedding of cat or where cat sleeps a lot all the time. Fall is here and it will be getting cold. the fleas are trying to find a place to go. since you have babies the idea of letting it get cold in the house is out. I agree don't do too much to your cat suave sells lanvender shampoo all naturals this helps my cat in between flea baths. once you have done all the above do the white sock test wakl across the floor and see if you can see them on the socks. Fleas have egg hatching alternating. a vet once told me that even walking along the floor can get fleas riled. good luck

Answer 8

Do you let your cat outside? That might be a problem, if your area has a lot of fleas. Did you just start trying to get rid of the fleas? Because it takes a few days for the treatments to work and for them to start dying off. Hang in there!

Answer 9

You have to do it all at once. Fleas are a bi*** to get rid of. The best bet is go to a vet and he will sell you some professional strength bombs to get rid of them. Make sure cat is washed if she still has fleas, and get her out of the house when it is treated. That should do it.

Answer 10

Frontline doesn't kill fleas until they bite. You also don't want to do too much flea medication because cats can be very sensitive to insecticide.