help! my cat has fleas!?

Question

i have a 6 month old male kitten with fleas. hes an indoor cat (a friend of ours, their animal had fleas and must have jumped a ride with him ). he is the only animal we have. so last week, we gave him a bath, put frontline on him, and bombed the house. we've been trying to vacuum everything everyday. he still has them. my boyfriend brushed at least 9 off of him last night. we have set up the "light trap" (soapy water in a pan under a light) before we go to bed for them to jump into. i dont know what else to do. I want to try everything i can before having to get an exterminator. help!

Answer 1

Buy a bag of Sevin Dust from Kmart, Walmart or a home and garden shop. It is made from dried chrysanthemum flowers and will kill the fleas. It is safe for your cat and it can be sprinkled all around your house as you would carpet fresh. Leave it on the carpets overnight then vacuum. Repeat as often as necessary until the fleas are gone. Also dust your cat thoroughly, along with his favorite sleeping places! (This is what people put on their vegetable gardens to kill insects as it is NOT toxic!)

Answer 2

Indoor cats still get fleas.

If you washed the cat before applying Frontline, the Frontline will not work. Washing will have removed the natural oils from the cat's coat, and Frontline needs these to work properly - it's how it spreads through the skin. You need to wait 48 hours after bathing before applying Frontline.

You need to get a proper treatment from the house, and reapply some Frontline in about 48 hours. By proper treatment, I mean a spray from the vets. You may need to spray more than once, 10 days apart, to get any newly hatched eggs.

Fleas bombs don't work. Nothing from a pet store does. 'Light traps' are a lot of nonsense! Fleas are primarily attracted to body heat, CO2 (from our breath) and vibrations from movement, not light. This is because all these things signify the approach of a meal - light does not.

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Answer 3

For carpets, put down baby powder before you go to bed, then vacuume up in the morning. Cut a flea collar into 1 inch pieces and put a few pieces into your vacuume cleaner bag as the fleas can reproduce in there and get out. Change the bag often.

For your cat. Bathe several times using baby soap to help wash the fleas away. Don't put frontline on till a couple days after the last bath. Treat for tape worms as well as fleas, they are part of the same cycle. Get the worm meds from your vet, pet store stuff isn't as effective.

Use a flea or lice comb several times a day.

Good luck, fleas are persistant little buggers.

Answer 4

What you should get is something called 7Dust. It's much like a carpet deoderizer in consistency. Put that down on all of your carpets. I would leave it for at least a few hours and then vacuum. That should kill them. I had a severe infestation once and that helped. If it doesn't work the first time, then it may require a second treatment.

Answer 5

Try washing him with dish soap or baby shampoo, it's gentle on the pet, but mean to the pests. I did that with an infested stray cat(sweetest thing) I got and they were gone in no time and the cat was antibacterial and fresh orange smelling^_^

There's a type of bath oil from avon too, has the word "soft" in it and is in a green and clear bottle, that is AWESOME just put a little bit in the bath and it gets em gone too..

Hope this helps and goodluck!

Answer 6

Buy frontline for cats, I use it on all three dogs and cats in my house and I havent had a problem since. You can get it online or in the pet store.