2006-09-28 11:54:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
Eternity if you don't treat them. They'll just keep multiplying.
But....
A single female flea lays more than 2,000 eggs during her two-month lifespan, YUK.
2006-09-28 11:58:12 · answer #1 · answered by Lorraine R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's about three or four weeks, but during that time each one will lay up to 5 million eggs in your home. So you need to treat them straight away. If you 've only just noticed it, treating all the cats and dogs in the household with a spot on treatment of something like Stronghold, (selemectin), which is a prescription you can get from your vet, should do the trick. This will protect your pet against roundworm as well as fleas, and each application lasts for a month. It is secreted over the coat and the fleas ingest it and diet within 24 hours. The pooh they pass before death then drops off into the home and the eggs and larvae feed on it and they will die too. Therefore it has an effect not only on the pet, but also on the home as well.
If it is a really bad infestation, you will need to get a spray for the house as well, something like RIP or Nuvan Staykill. You will need to vacuum the house vigorously and turn up the central heating first before spraying, to ensure that all the pupae hatch out into adult fleas - and you will then have better chance of killing them.
Remember, only 5% of a flea problem is on the pet - the other 95% are in the home in eggs, larvae and pupae that we can't see.
2006-09-28 19:02:55 · answer #2 · answered by myfairladyisasleep 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can live indefinatley in a nice warm environment. Doemstic cats come indoors so the fleas jump off and imbed themsleves in your home. Usually carpet, but I've had them on the floor. They jump all over you and yes they can bite you. You're SUPPOSED to de- flea the cat every 6 weeks year round for an outdoor cat. But I don't. I just treat mine when they look like they have fleas. Which is usually during the summer.
2006-09-28 19:06:46 · answer #3 · answered by helpme1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not for long, if you use Frontline. Funny, you would ask this one, because my two cats, old Johann and Little Scooter, both needed a treatment today. They were scratching and licking and watching them was driving me nuts. One treatment each seems to take care of them for the entire year. So you might say I am "sold" on Frontline. Other people here on Yahoo! Answers may advocate for other products and other answers, but I just thought you might like to know how good this product really is, so this is a testimonial as well as an answer, all rolled into one. Sent to you with good energies from Chris in South Portland, Maine, U.S.A. (I am 63 years old and my two babies take such good care of me!)
2006-09-28 19:01:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
fleas carry tapeworms and other bad stuff
kill them with month treatments like frontline ot hartz
mixing garlic with food helps
stuff like flea collers and powders are a waste of money
2006-09-28 19:12:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
fleas repoduce over and over and over so quickly!!
Before 1 can die that one is replaced by 5000!!! It's scary.
But they will live and repoduce until you get some front line top spot or advantage from your vet or online.
2006-09-28 19:41:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
fleas can go into suspended amination for two years,then still go to the host
2006-09-28 19:04:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen ones on my cat using zimmers! Wouldn't like to speculate though as it's ageist!
2006-09-28 19:03:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think 12 hours off the animal - forever on an animal... argh
2006-09-28 19:01:42 · answer #9 · answered by Starlight 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they multiply like jack rabbits and live long enough to invade your home and take over
2006-09-28 19:03:26 · answer #10 · answered by Mechanical 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋