How do I clean the house if my cat has flea?

Question

I just found out that my cat has flea. I have another dog in the same house and they do have some contact for the past week. I am wondering how can I clean the house to get rid of all the flea? The cat sleeps in the sofa usually, and before I found out he has flea he used to sleep on my bed for few hours. I dont have carpet just hard wood floor and my livng room is together with the open kitchen. So do I just wash everything or have to buy some spray to kill the flea around the living and my bedroom?

Answer 1

You need to get rid of the fleas on your animals at the same time. If you don't, you will always have them.

Answer 2

First, you need to treat both the dog and the cat for a flea infestation. You do that by going down to the vet and purchasing the correct size flea control for the pets, apply it correctly. You then need to vacuumn your house, everywhere. Not just the rooms where the pets go, because fleas do not live on the pets, they live in the environment. Fleas get on pets to take a blood meal, mate and lay eggs. Where ever the pets spend most of their time will be a hot bed of eggs and larva. Believe me, there is Never just One Flea. Vacumn under all the furniture, remove any cushion covers on couch and wash in hot water, vacumn the couch. Vacuumn the bed, under the bed. Then throw out the vacuumn bag or empty the chamber in to a trash bag, tie it up and throw it away. You then need an area treatment spray to treat your house. Do not forget to treat the area where the animal spend lots of time, on the couch, at the side of the bed or chair, whatever. I have had best results and have always recommended Vet Chem's Siphitol Area Treatment spray, it will treat 2000 sq ft. Follow directions on the can, you can pretreat areas of the house where the animals hang out most, then treat the entire house. I don't recommend bombs unless the area to be treated does not have any furniture in it, as the bombs put the product in the air, it comes down and settles on top of furniture and does not get under neath. When dealing with fleas, leaving any area untreated is a mistake. Good luck

Answer 3

Advantage for cats and dogs is great and it works. It's a once a month liquid that you apply to the back of their neck. It kills the fleas on your pets and also in your house but the key to it working the best possible way is to use it every month for a full year and then you can get by using it seasonally. I don't know where you live but where I live, it gets cold in the winter and the fleas go dormant so I just use it from March-Oct. You can get it at the vet's office and sometimes at places like Rural King and it's a bit expensive depending how many pets you have. Watch out with other things you might want to use instead. It's so easy to poison a cat because they lick their fur quite frequently and too much can be toxic to them. Dogs aren't as sensitive. Until then just vacuum everything that you can in your house. That's one of the best preventatives, they say. I was infested with fleas once (I have 4 indoor cats) and Advantage worked for me! There's another one at the vet's office that's applied the same way and works as well but I can't think of the name of it. Good Luck!

Answer 4

Fleas, plural. There will be more than one!!!

You need to get a spray from a vets for your house. Washing everything will not be enough; fleas are nothing to do with dirt. You have to get something that's actually going to kill them, and no flea treatment available in pet stores is going to be helpful.

The same goes for your animals. You need treat both the dog and the cat, and it needs to be a treatment from a vets.

Chalice

Answer 5

Take the animals to someone else's house or something for about four hours and let off bug bombs. They're very effective and you can find them at your local grocery. Also, there's spray for cats that will kill them instantly. They might not like it, but it beats fleas. I know the spray is in the pet aisle. Dogs can handle a bath, so use flea shampoo on it. I suggest you bomb the entire place, because if they're in one room, they're in all of them. And yes, clean all of your fabrics and clothes and sheets. EVERYTHING before you bring it back to the house. It's a pain, but like I said, it beats fleas.

Answer 6

First, you'll want to have your cat treated for fleas. If it's bad, have him dipped. Otherwise FrontLine, Revolution, or Advantix applied to the nape of the neck and rubbed in will do it.

Since you don't have carpet, that will make de-fleaing your house much easier.

I don't like sprays: It's far to easy to inhale them. Instead, wash your bedding and sprinkle your furniture with Borax, then vacuum after about 20 minutes. You may want to vacuum more than once during the next couple of weeks.

If the fleas came from outside and you have ground for gardening, you may want to grow a bunch of aromatic herbs: It will be good for cooking, and insect pests don't like a lot of them.

Good luck!

Answer 7

A safe, highly effective and cheap method of getting rid of fleas is to use a mixture of boric acid and salt. The powder should be sprayed on bedding and other areas frequented by your pets.

Answer 8

make sure the animals get rid of the fleas first or you will have to start all over! fleas are such a pain... take you pets to a groomer and tell them about it.