2006-09-17 14:55:52 · 13 answers · asked by lynnbell23462 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Use boric acid. It comes in a powdered form. Get one of those mustard bottles with the cone like dispenser tops, fill it with boric acid and line your whole house with it. Go along EVERY baseboard, under sinks, in cabinets, under electronic equipment and any other place you can think of where you've seen roaches. Your cats shouldn't be the least interested in it, but if you notice them 'messing' with it, you might want to leave them with someone for a few days. Boric acid is relatively non-toxic. About as harmful as eating a large quantity of salt. I've seen homes that were completely infested go to being relatively roach free after a couple of weeks of using it.
If you live in an apartment (especially if it's in an older building), you may have a hard time getting rid of all of them. You can kill yours, but you can't stop your neighbor's from running to your place after they spray. You'd have to go through the entire apartment and caulk along every baseboard, and close every hole under sinks, etc. If you do that and still see roaches, plan to stay overnight at someone else's place with your cats. Buy a bunch of foggers (I mean more than you think you'd possibly need), set off two or three in each room and clear out! Vacuum and clean everything off when you get back. Then watch for the few stragglers that might be left. If you kill them before they have a chance to establish a new colony, you should be pretty much roach free.
2006-09-17 15:19:04 · answer #1 · answered by IAINTELLEN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats have nothing to do with your roach problem. First open your cupboards and move the refrigerator and look behind everything to make sure there are no "holes" in the walls they can be coming through. If there are, get "putty" from the home department at Wal-mart and fill them up. This is how they get in. Next, go through your food products and get rid of anything you think they may have gotten in (or out of). Next, throw this stuff out of your house, it cannot stay inside or you have done no good.
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2006-09-17 22:16:27 · answer #2 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cats wont eat the roaches.
if you've got roaches, you are probably giving them an easy access to a food supply.
Don't leave cat food out except during a brief time when the cats are eating it.
Don't leave food- soiled dishes in the sink.
Do store food in airtight containers.
If the incidents of roaches is very light (you've seen a couple) there are probably at least another 20 hiding. roach traps might be your best bet, behind fridge, under stove, under sink, (in kitchen and bath),
if incidence is heavy, call an exterminator.
they could be infesting your neighbors place and jumping to yours
2006-09-17 22:05:41 · answer #3 · answered by Joe v 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pour a thin line of boric acid (it is a white powder sold in most pesticide sections of stores)around all of the baseboards and seams of the kitchen counters.Try to cover all of the seams along the floor in your house. When roaches crawl over it, it sticks to their underside and they begin to die off. The border around all of the seams keep new ones from coming in. It is harmless to your cats. You should be free of roaches in about a month.
2006-09-17 22:08:42 · answer #4 · answered by D C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to yellow pages in your phone book and look up pest control. Do not go with Orkin,find some local shop( they give you better service and won't cost as much). Roaches are hard to get rid of on your own. Please don't use Raid. That only chases them(spends them out). My Husband was in the Pest control business for over 10 years.
2006-09-17 23:00:00 · answer #5 · answered by whataboutme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats will not help your roach problem...roaches stink and the most cats will do with them is bat them around a bit. First you need to spray and then don't leave out any food. Roaches will eat anything... even glue.
2006-09-17 22:02:10 · answer #6 · answered by crale70 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you mean roaches - go to walmart get the combat in a tube - put it out just like it says - it says you have to do every 3 to 6 months but i put it out over a year ago and still don't have any roaches - no smell like with booms- and you don't have to wash every thing after its put out like with booms you put it inside the cabinets, under icebox,stove places the cats can't get to - I have pets and this works very good with pets - best stuff you can buy
2006-09-17 22:03:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
spray the baseboards. My bug guy comes every other month and I have 4 cats. Never a problem.
2006-09-17 22:40:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
get rid of all government food. Not kidding The eggs are in the food. I E flour and grains.
2006-09-17 22:00:25 · answer #9 · answered by Diane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should find someone to keep your cats for about a week and let a flea bomb off.
2006-09-21 18:54:05 · answer #10 · answered by Jae 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋