When do you give up the fight

Of de fleaing your home with products and get exterminators in?

Friday all cats got frontline and are now flea free,I have used a spray for the house which the vet gave me,Ive vacuumed for hours for the last two days and also used a spray that I got from the pet shop

I have found a lot of dead ones but also a lot of live ones,I have washed and boiled the pet bedding and my sheets,Opal was out all last night and since she had some more front line spray on she has been flea free but every now and then you see a half dying flea on her so I am guessing this will help control the environment if they die as soon as they lay on her? they do not need to bite to die as it sticks to the surface of the skin

Ive done everything in my power to rid them but they are still there,I do not have hundreds but I get roughly 4 jumping around every hour so its nothing like it was before,is it to early to call the environmental health in to kill them?
I do not want to call them in (thats if they kill fleas and its free,cant afford it just yet if not) if there is something else I can do

I have got some bob martin flea powder should I use that first then get some more spray from the vets before I go down that road?

It is really stressing me out,I'm itching all the darn time even when I have no fleas near me,I just feel itchy and dirty,please help,I am going out of my mind

Oh I just read that you will still see fleas for a few weeks because the cocoons or something are resistant to sprays until they become full adults? anyone else heard that?

Originally Posted by pepsi

Oh I just read that you will still see fleas for a few weeks because the cocoons or something are resistant to sprays until they become full adults? anyone else heard that?

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yes, it sounds vaguely familiar.

Thank you

It takes time- last year the fleas were so bad in Oregon that for the first time I saw them in the larvae stage! Actually walking across the floor- freaked me out- LOL

Get some boric powder for the carpets and floors. That was the ONLY thing that finally broke the cycle in my house. There wasn't a spray out there that worked for me. I just advantage/frontline the 4-leggeds, wash anything loose in the house (bedding and throw rugs), spray the furniture and boric powder the carpets and floors.

My house got as bad as you described one year and since I added the boric powder, it has never been vaguely close to that.

Thanks,maybe it is to early to be thinking of exterminators

Ive heard salt works too? I can not find boric anywhere in the UK

If you can find earwigs they eat fleas- but then you have earwigs in the house-

ear wigs it is then LOL

I'm acting like a big baby over this,I cant stop crying,I'm so scared that they are going to attack me like they did when we came home from vacation,I'm getting more acclaim spray tomorrow and then exterminators it is,I don't want to live here with fleas,did anyone else feel this way or am I just totally over reacting?

When they attacked us,I was covered in bites around my waist,thank god I'm not allergic,actually is there any other type of bugs that are identical to fleas but are not? LOL I keep thinking maybe it something else jumping and looking like a flea,cause there buggers don't want to die

In my experience, even a single flea is hard to kill! Between the jumping and the hard little armor he's wearing...good luck! I've been fortunate enough to never have fleas on any of my animals or in the house. Heck...now I feel like I need to knock on some good hard wood...fast.

Best of luck to you, hon. I know they'd creep me out, too, being the obsessive compulsive cleaner that I am...ugh, you poor thing!

I know how you feel. The fleas loved to bite me but never touched my husband or daughter. I got exterminators in because we weren't having any luck with flea baths for the cat and over-the-counter products.

Ill have to get them in too,I cant live with it no more-the council should do it for free with a bit of luck

I dont want to go to bed because I get the occasional one in my bed