Flea infestation?

Question

My cat has fleas. I used the little tube you put on the back of the neck, 6 weeks later I repeated, that was 2 weeks ago,he still had them. My 2 yr old and my husbabd are being bitten by them constantly. On the weekend I washed my cat in flea killing solution, put flea killing powder and a flea collar on him. Yesterday I set 4 flea bombs off, vacumed, emptyed my vacume after use, then sprayed another flea and egg stopper manualy into the carpet. I plan to vaqcume every day for the next 2 weeks , I cant flea spray his bed becauase he sleeps on the roof of the house. My question is, Am I missing anything, Is there anything else I need to to to get rid of theese things from my cat and house?

Answer 1

Stop stop stop.

First of all, what flea medicine in the little tube did you use exactly?! There are many! If it was from a pet store, don't expect for one minute that it will actually work.

Get some proper flea treatment from a vet - Frontline, Advantage, Advocate or Revolution. These actually work. Stop bombing the house, you're wasting your time. Also, FOUR bombs?!

Please get the collar off him. They are the most useless things of all, all they do is ward fleas away from the neck area, so they just hide elsewhere on your dog.

Just get some proper flea treatment from the vets for your dog. If you need to treat the house again, only use sprays from the vet. Honestly, ANY flea treatment from a store, for the animal or the house, as useless - pet stores aren't licensed to sell the proper chemicals for flea treatment, so they just sell random pesticides that don't do anything.

Chalice

Answer 2

First things first, you need to stop letting your cat go outside to sleep. Cats pick up their fleas and other nasty things from going outdoors and a roof is about as dirty as you can get. It may also get them from other cats it comes into contact with. Keep it indoors and you will stop it from bringing them into the house. Secondly, the tube stuff you bought, was it the cheap stuff from Walmart like Sergeant? If it was, I know from experience that its not very effective. You need to get something called Frontline from a vet. It is expensive, about 15 bucks a tube, but it will kill every last flea on its body. Lastly, try sprinkling some salt on your carpets. The fleas will eat the salt and get poisoned.

Answer 3

OMG YOU ARE! i got the same problem with my little chuaha (how ever you spell it haha) and the ONE key thing you missed is the cats bed...!!!!! this is a biggie....its were they hide (the fleas...those buggers they are) and i got a story, so yea i snuck out of my house (im 15 and i am a party goer) and when i got back my dog barks to visiters. so i picked him up and he stops barking if you sleep with him and when i woke up....OMG.....i thought my clothes left an indent on my skin..(like if you put a wire on your face and sleep on your face it leaves a wire indent) i thoguht that happened to me but...IT WAS FLEAS!!!! it was sooo scary and i got sick the bites i had were all over my right leg about 3 feet long and a couple inches wide....they itched so badly.


sorry for going off track >_< but my dog has had them for 3 months or so and we don't really do much other than giving him CONSTANT flea baths and what not but the KEY thing that you need to do is wash the cats bed. Fleas lay up to about 200 eggs a day? sooo gogogo wash that bed

Answer 4

Hi! You don't say what it was that you used on the cat initially.....just drops.....if you got them at Walmart, ect they really don't work.....If you got frotline, advantage or revolution it needs to be repeated every 30 days.
Take off the flea collar, it doesn't work and depending on the chemical, could kill the cat.
Don't use flea dips, as they don't work either. Also, please don't use anything labled for a dog on a cat......could kill it.

Do you understand the flea life cycle? For every flea you can see on your cat or dog, there may be another 200 eggs around the house. Adult flea lays eggs - maybe 50 to 75 a day. They'll hatch in a further 4-12 days, depending on the temperature and humidity. Flea eggs hatch into worm-like larvae which move away from light and downwards. This means that they are usually found deep in the carpet pile. They tend to accumulate in areas where the pet rests, but have been observed to crawl as far as 20 feet while in this stage of the life cycle. While larvae are susceptible to household flea insecticides, they only account for 35% of a typical infestation. And because they are so small, and tend to move into hard-to-get areas, it is just about impossible to know whether you've managed to spray them all.

After 7-18 days, flea larvae pupate, the process by which they spin a protective cocoon around themselves and develop into adults. Inside the cocoon, fleas are almost impervious to insecticides.

It takes between 5-14 days for fleas to develop inside the cocoon, after which they are triggered to hatch in response to vibration (being stepped on), or the carbon dioxide exhaled by a passing host. But in the absence of a trigger, they can survive inside the cocoon for up to nine months.

A flea can hatch from its cocoon, jump on a passing pet, and begin feeding in as little as 7 seconds. Adult fleas are permanent ectoparasites. In other words, once they have landed on a pet, they'll stay there until they're removed by grooming or die.

Adult fleas usually live for a matter of days on a cat or dog, unless swallowed by the pet, or killed by an insecticide. They account for only 5% of a typical flea infestation at any one time (the rest existing in the egg, larval and pupal life stages).

As depressing as all that information is, you are doing all the right things. Vacuum daily, get rid of what it taken up. Since the pupae don't like light they move away, head under the furniture, down into the carpet and such. When you vacuum, you need to move big furniture items like couches and beds, chairs and tables.....If you bomb, product goes up in the air and comes down and stays on top of furniture.....leaving the floor beneath untreated.

If your pets are on the furniture, you need to vacuum there as well, pull off pillows and slipcovers and vacuum well. May need to treat there as well.

If you can just hang on a bit longer.....everything that you have put down to kill these pests will do its job.....

What kind of products did you use? I have always recc. a product by VET CHEM called Siphitrol Area Treatment Spray, 1 can will treat approx. 2000 sq ft home. It is an inverted areosol can, and you can spot treat if there are break out hatchings. They have an 800 number that you can call if there are issues, and they stand behind their product.

But I worry that you have too many chemicals in your home to be safe for you and your family.

Answer 5

Don't worry about the flea infestation! Where I come from fleas are harvested from infested animals and sun dried to make a very tasty seasoning for popcorn or baked potatoes.

Harvest and enjoy the flavor.
Bon appetite!

Answer 6

consintanly wash whatever he comes into contact to.

blankets, clothes, towels.

get a big bowl of soapy water set a neon or blacklight under the bowl and put it on the ground. turn off lights.

fleas are attracted to it and they will jump into the bowl and die