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Help! How can we kill fleas in our house?
25 October 2014 | Mene

Posted on 10/25/2014 4:11:02 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Help Freepers! How can we effectively completely eliminate fleas from the house. We are getting rid of the cat immediately. A long time ago, one could buy Lindane, but I believe that has been banned. Would appreciate any advice on how to rid the house permanently of the little buggers. To save you words, I already know about he egg cycle thing from previous experience. Just can't find any Lindane.


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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

why would you get rid of your cat?????? that’s ridiculous. use diatomaceous earth in the house and on the cat and the fleas will disappear.


21 posted on 10/25/2014 4:39:58 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: stars & stripes forever

I use diatomaceous earth to keep bugs out of my cabbage and broccoli.


22 posted on 10/25/2014 4:41:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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23 posted on 10/25/2014 4:43:00 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

About 5 or 6 years ago, our cats brought in a massive flea infestation. We tried for 2 months to get rid of the fleas, but it was almost impossible. Then we discovered flea traps.
A rectangular plastic plate about 10”x8” with an elevated cover wwith a small light bulb. The lower part has a sticky sheet of glue impregnated with flea pheromones. Put the trap in a room and turn on the trap’s small light (heat source). In an hour check the trap and there will be 50 or 60 of the biting pests stuck to it. A few days later and you’ll wonder where all the fleas came from and how they managed to find a place on the glue pad to stick themselves. The traps usually cost about $15 and replacement sheets of pheromone stick stuff are a couple bucks.


24 posted on 10/25/2014 4:44:16 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Muslim Creeping Conquest of America and Canada)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Spray it everywhere. And get tile or hardwood flooring.


25 posted on 10/25/2014 4:44:54 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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26 posted on 10/25/2014 4:46:27 AM PDT by what's up
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Put the cat outside on a leash....and open the door.


27 posted on 10/25/2014 4:48:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I just had this conversation with my pest control guy last week. If you give the cat Advantage flea treatment, any fleas that jump on him will die after biting him. If you flea bomb the house and get rid of the cat, in two weeks you will have a another round of fleas that have hatched and no way to kill them other than another round of flea bombing. If you keep the cat, and keep it on Advantage, you might not even notice the next couple of rounds of fleas. If you get rid of the cat, your problem will last much longer and your house will require many rounds of flea treatment.
28 posted on 10/25/2014 4:49:40 AM PDT by shatcher (Judges 17:6b Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Lots of good advice so far - it isn’t the cat’s fault - multiple treatments even after it looks like the fleas are gone. Then be vigilant and inspect the cat often.


29 posted on 10/25/2014 4:54:11 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: BuffaloJack
Non-bomb approach uses a cookie sheet - put it on the floor near heavy infestation. fill halfway with water. Add 5 drops dishsoap. Place desklamp next to cookie sheet with the light suspended over the middle of the sheet. Turn light on at night.

Fleas are attracted to the light and heat and will leap at it. The soap in the water makes them sink right away and they die.

The number of dead fleas will eventually drop to the point that no new dead guys will signal infestation is over.

Refresh water every day.

30 posted on 10/25/2014 4:54:25 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

rubbing alcohol in 1$ squirt bottles. keep it with you at all times and shoot the little buggers when ever you see them. the cloud of alcohol vapor envelops them and makes them drunk and shrivel and die.


31 posted on 10/25/2014 4:56:41 AM PDT by conservativeimage (I Won't Go Underground http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wema3CNqzvg)
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To: BuffaloJack

DIY with a shallow tray of water with a few drops of dish soap added and a small lamp suspended over the tray.Same principle they head for the lamp land in the soapy water and sink
Works great


32 posted on 10/25/2014 4:58:23 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Please don’t toss your kitty!

Just take them to the vet and get them treated. There are effective flea treatments.

Besides, with the cold weather coming, the fleas should die down. And make sure to ask the vet how to get ready for spring.

Flea control is an ongoing challenge but it can be realized.


33 posted on 10/25/2014 4:58:59 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: cripplecreek

[I use diatomaceous earth to keep bugs out of my cabbage and broccoli.]

I drink the earth grade DE. It has amazing health benefits.


34 posted on 10/25/2014 5:00:31 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: cripplecreek

Ha ha.

Sometimes my hot flashes feel just like that!


35 posted on 10/25/2014 5:00:31 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Vacuum your carpet and clean all floors, use a pesticide bomb that says it treats fleas, use a carpet treatment and spray your yard.

There are many products, they are usually several products in the pet sections and the yard spray (attach to hose and spray) is usually in the garden section but sometimes there is a lawn treatment in the pet section.

After a week, vacuum and clean your floors really good again and put down the floor treatment again.

There are really good treatments for pets that do work. One of my dogs takes Trifexis and she never has a single flea, my other dog can’t take the Trifexis because she’s allergic...allergic to many, many things... and so she sometimes did get fleas.

I have found treating the yard in the spring and also treating my floors about once a month in the warm months (even if there aren’t any fleas) keeps my pup flea-free.


36 posted on 10/25/2014 5:05:36 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Heat. 120 degrees for at least 90 minutes.

http://www.bedbugs.org/heat/


37 posted on 10/25/2014 5:10:59 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Never ever allow registered Democrats in your home...dont let your children play with little Democrats.....


38 posted on 10/25/2014 5:14:18 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Keep the cat and move to Arizona.

I did that 20 years ago and have yet to see the first flea in my house.

;-P

39 posted on 10/25/2014 5:17:33 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Diatomaceous Earth, cheap buy on Amazon.

Sprinkle around.


40 posted on 10/25/2014 5:19:21 AM PDT by gaijin
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