How do i get rid of my cats fleas?

Question

I have tried absolutly everything, Even treating the whole house. Nothing works. Please someone tell me how to get rid of them

Answer 1

RID X and giving him a bath in Dawn Dish soap a couple of times this month. Make sure to vacuum your home more often to eliminate the eggs. Get the regular Dawn dish soap not any of the stuff with bleach. I used it on my puppy a couple of times before.

Answer 2

People on here don't read do they?

Flea collars are pointless. Flea baths are pointless. Anything from a pet store is pointless! Stores aren't licensed to sell the appropriate chemicals for flea treatment - but companies still manage to fool people by passing off random insecticides as flea treatment. Don't be fooled by it, just go to a vet and pick up some proper stuff.

Frontline, Revolution, Advantage and Advocate are all good. These are spot-ons, that you apply to the skin on the back of the cat's neck, they will kill all fleas with 24 hours and prevent reinfestation for at least a month. These are NOT the same as the spot-ons you buy in pet stores.

The injection for cats only sterilises fleas, it's a preventative, no point if fleas are already present.

You need to treat you house with something decent - i.e not a 'flea bomb' or fogger. Get a proper spray from a vet - if te infestation is that bad, you will probably need to do 2 treatments abut 10-14 days apart, to get the newly hatched flea eggs.

So believe me, plenty of things work. You just can't find them in stores.

Chalice

Answer 3

For the whole house, sprinkle some Borax Laundry powder around... and in closets and corners, too. It won't stain carpets. Let it sit a couple of days, sweep or vacuum up, then repeat. This will get rid of fleas but will take around three treatments because fleas burrow deeply into carpets and wood floors and the eggs continue to hatch. So it does take more than one treatment.

Bath cat in Dawn dishwashing liquid... some vets use this too. Then , invest in either Frontline or Advantage.. available at your vet. Don't waste time sand money on that junk at the grocery store or on flea collars.

Answer 4

On the animal, use a product called "frontline". In the house, go to a pet store & look for an indoor fogger. These are cans that you set off, then leave the house for several hours. It will kill everything inside, but you'll still have to spray your furniture & carpets a couple days later in case eggs survived.

If this doesn't work, you'll have to call an exterminator.

Its a pain in the azz to get rid of fleas, so be VIGILANT in the future, so you don't have to do it again!

Answer 5

Open dishwasher. Insert cat.


(actually, a liquid treatment one drop behind neck as directed. Three days later, throw out all of cat bedding and flea bomb the house. I hate doing this because of the toxins but really there is no option once you get infested.)

Answer 6

The first thing you will need to do is figure out the total square feet of your home. Then you will need to go to a hardware store or grocery store and buy several flea bombs. Read the directions carefully. They will tell you the total square feet that will be covered by that one particular bomb. Once you figure out how many you will need for each room, purchase three times that number. Yes that’s right, you will need to do each room a minimum of three times over a span of three months.

The next step is figuring out a good time to do this project. You and your family, two and four footed, will need to vacate the premises for at least several hours. The directions will tell you the minimum amount of time that will be needed to fumigate your house. Keep your four footed friend in the garage or in the yard while the house is being fumigated. Just be sure that he has plenty of shade and water. You will want to turn off the water circulation to any fish tanks and cover them with some old sheets. You don’t want any of the chemicals to settle on the water. It could kill your fish. You can keep the air pumps going. In fact you will want to be sure to keep them going. Air pumps are a closed system. Which means that no outside air is drawn in and circulated through the air tubing. You may also want to cover the furniture with sheets.

Once you have figured out what day you will bomb your house, covered the furniture, closed the windows and turned off the heat/air conditioning, place the bombs on a level surface with papers underneath the can. Start the bombs, close all the doors to all the rooms and leave the premises. When you return, wrap up the can in a plastic bag and throw it in the garbage. Open the windows, and turn on the fans to circulate the air out of the house.

Now comes the hard part. Giving Fluffy a much needed flea bath. Go out and purchase some flea shampoo specially made for cats and a flea collar. You also might want to consider spraying your yard too. If you decide to go that route you will need to spray your yard once a month through out the entire spring until the first hard frost. If your cat is the problem, you may want to turn him into an indoor cat.

Set up the bathroom with all the supplies you will need. Flea shampoo, brushes, combs and lots of towels. Fill the tub about a quarter of the way full with warm water. Read the directions on the shampoo bottle. Some tell you to leave the soap on a certain length on time and others tell you to rinse and repeat. Keep the flea shampoo in a handy spot so you don’t have to reach too far while you are bathing your pet. You might want to brush your pets coat outside. That way any fleas that are removed with the brushing and combing will stay outside and not be brought in with the pet.

Bring your pet into the bathroom and close the door firmly. Place your pet in the tub and get him thoroughly soaked. Pour some shampoo all over your pet’s body.. Starting at the head, work the shampoo into a lather. Work your way down your pet’s body. Pay special attention to your pet’s arm pits ( I know, arm pits on a pet??) where their legs connect to their body and the belly. Don’t forget the tail. Take care not to get any shampoo in the ears or eyes. As you are working you should be able to see little black flea bodies floating in the soapy water. Rinse your pet completely. If your pet has a heavy infestation of fleas, you may want to repeat the shampooing. Rinse again. Wrap your pet in a large towel and dry him as best you can. He will try to help you by shaking himself repeatedly. Place the flea collar on him at this time. You may want to put him in a separate room free from drafts until his coat is completely dry.


Drain the tub and play taps for the poor dead fleas. Unfortunately, after all this effort your job is not yet done. Every three weeks you will need to bomb your house again. The bombs will kill the adult fleas, but will do nothing for the eggs or larva. Flea eggs take three weeks to hatch and it will take an additional three weeks for the larva to pupate into adults. So once a month for the next three months you will have to vacate the premises and bomb your residence. However, with the flea collar on your pet and limiting the amount of time he spends outside, your infestation should be under control.

If you dont feel comfortable bathing your cat yourself (Because the cat may go bonkers when put in the water) have the vet do it..... While the vet is doing that is a good time to flea bomb the house.

Answer 7

Try Frontline for Cats - you get a little pipette and you put some liquid on the back of your cat's neck and it works a treat!

Answer 8

Try to get "Revolution" or "Frontline" and use as directed. We have never had flea problem with our cats but we use Revolution and it helps prevent fleas.

Answer 9

a bath with regular dawn dish soap as the shampoo, it kills fleas like you wont believe, get some regular borax laundry soap and sprinkle it into the carpet. this will kill the fleas there too, and do something to the yard too, otherwise all will be for naught

Answer 10

you can have cats injected for fleas, and you can also have a type of smoke bomb which you set off when no one including you cat is in the house, ive been told it works wonders. hope this helps.