have 6 cats we have never had a prob. w/ fleas 1 of cats got out & brought in fleas. how do i get rid of them?

Answer 1

Fast!!!! Those little buggers can reproduce relentlessly. Get some Advantage on all the cats as soon as you possibly can and comb as many off as you can.

Answer 2

PLEASE*****DON'T USE HARTZ PRODUCTS thier flea products have killed manyy cats and have made many, many more ill. See hartzvictimsdotorg

If you feel you need to get a topical flea med, then get one from your vet. If the cats won't let you bathe them, comb them everyday w/ a flea comb - do it by a sink w/ soapy hot wather in it so you can drown the fleas when you get them in the comb. And vacuum every day, these two things will go a long way to reducing the population.

Also, it is best to vacuum w/ something you can empty every day. When I was vacumming for fleas, I used a Shark and dumped the contents into a ziplock and sealed it as quickly as possible. If you don't dump the bag or whatever, the fleas will just get back out.

Answer 3

You need something like FrontlinePlus...good source and cheaper than the vets is petshed.com...I use it so I know it works. A flea comb with a cup of hot water & a little dish liquid to dip the comb in when you comb your dog/cat. LOTs of vac bags and vac everyday and remove the bag and tie it in a shopping bag and take out of the house. This will work and you should see improvements within two months. DON'T use sprays, powders, house bombs, flea collars and over the counter products. They are dangerous and are full of pesticides and can harm you and your pet! To let you know as I was given a paper from the vets...cycle of the flea...They hatch from a cocoon like a butterfly...in one week they are an adult....as a adult they lay a egg every hour of their lives up to 1-2 years they live. The eggs hatch into a larva in about two weeks...they spend three weeks as a larva and then they wrap themselves into a cocoon. In the cocoon stage you can't kill them unless you plan on burning down your house...fire is the only way to kill them in this stage. What makes them hatch from a cocoon is vibration, heat, and all sorts of things. They need a host to feed on within one week or they will die. ( problem being is the cocoons can take up to five months to hatch! and they all hatch at different rates!) WOW that is a lot of fleas! FrontlinePlus uses two ways to kill the fleas...they first have an ingredient that paralyzes the flea so it can't feed and it dies...it does this for two weeks. The following two weeks it just inhibits the flea eggs of the fleas that feed on them and eggs don't hatch. This is why it takes a few months, but it does work. BTW...flea baths don't work either and will make it so the FrontlinePlus won't work.

Answer 4

This is gonna take a while.

1 Vacuum everything : All flooring, and furniture.
2 Wash all of your bedding.
3 Flea Dip all of your cats and dogs
4 Flea Bomb you house and apt
5 repeat all of the above

Answer 5

Your vet will have a shot called "Revolution" which needs to be given to all your cats. It kills fleas at all stages, as well as other parasites.

You'll also need to de-flea your entire house. I've attached some web links in the source section.

Good luck!

Answer 6

You'll probably have to take all the cats to the vet for a flea dip and bomb your home for fleas.

Hopefully your vet will work with you and keep your kitties until you are Okd to go back into the house (I know some fleabombs don't advise any re-entry for 48hrs.)

Answer 7

Get some Frontline or Advantage and put it on all of them. Vets sell it but I get mine from drugstore.com. Petmeds and other places also sell it. And do use a flea comb.

Answer 8

Any Superstore or pet shop will have flea treatments. Just follow the instructions on the product.

Answer 9

salt ur carpet, invest in a flea bath/medication, and find a non lethal way to treat your yard for fleas