Ok a few months ago a new roomate moved in and at her previous apartment she used to just let her cat wander around outside without any fle protection. Consequently she left that palce infested with fleas (didn't tell me this) and moved into here, where her cat proceeded to infest the house I live in with fleas, and infest my cat.
Now, the house I live in as a bit of a special circumstance. there's no lease and I know the landlord. He generally just let's people move in and so far it's been farily ok until now. Shortly after moving in she lost her job and I was unemployed (up intil next week when I start a new job). I told her she needed to take care of this to which i was payed some lip service and she never did anything. Consequently my legs are all bit to hell and I can even see some on me when I go out (so I try to not go to friends houses because I don't want to invite this plague to them too).
So what are my options> I know frontline is supposed to be the best stuff for my cat (and hers as it looks like I will have to pay to get her cat de-flead because she apparently doesn't care). However frontline is pretty expensive. I should also mention that I have a rabbit and have no idea if he has fleas or what I would need to de-flea him. Next up is getting the fleas out of the house. This place is pretty big. it's an old victorian sized house and it has a couple rooms that are closed off and full of boxes of old antiques that the owner stores here. There are 3 large living rooms, a huge basement, a large furnished attic, a large kitchen, a bathroom, and 4 bedrooms. So there's a lot of square footage to deal with. Bombs aren't really a good solution as they won't get under everything they need to (or maby they will I'm not sure there) and I don't really have anywhere to put my pets while the house is being bombd (or is it possible to do a house in stages?).
So there in a nutshell is the whole problem. I could afford one moderatly pricy procedure to fix this but not multiples. I know the best solution is to put the animals at the vet overnight and have them medically de-flea them while the entire house is bombed, but that's really not an option as it's pretty expansive. Also keep in mind my jackass of a roomate will likely not be helping me in this because, well, she sucks.
I guess I could wait a few weeks and do this once I have more money from my new job, however to give you an idea of how bad this is, as I am writing this I have killed 2 of them I caught crawling on my legs. So far my roomates solution has been to not spend any time at the house (althought they have infested her room at this point now too). In the long term I plan to move out of here, but as I actually know the guy that owns this place I'd like to get it back in some kind of livable order for new people that would move in.
And yes, this sucks.
Now, the house I live in as a bit of a special circumstance. there's no lease and I know the landlord. He generally just let's people move in and so far it's been farily ok until now. Shortly after moving in she lost her job and I was unemployed (up intil next week when I start a new job). I told her she needed to take care of this to which i was payed some lip service and she never did anything. Consequently my legs are all bit to hell and I can even see some on me when I go out (so I try to not go to friends houses because I don't want to invite this plague to them too).
So what are my options> I know frontline is supposed to be the best stuff for my cat (and hers as it looks like I will have to pay to get her cat de-flead because she apparently doesn't care). However frontline is pretty expensive. I should also mention that I have a rabbit and have no idea if he has fleas or what I would need to de-flea him. Next up is getting the fleas out of the house. This place is pretty big. it's an old victorian sized house and it has a couple rooms that are closed off and full of boxes of old antiques that the owner stores here. There are 3 large living rooms, a huge basement, a large furnished attic, a large kitchen, a bathroom, and 4 bedrooms. So there's a lot of square footage to deal with. Bombs aren't really a good solution as they won't get under everything they need to (or maby they will I'm not sure there) and I don't really have anywhere to put my pets while the house is being bombd (or is it possible to do a house in stages?).
So there in a nutshell is the whole problem. I could afford one moderatly pricy procedure to fix this but not multiples. I know the best solution is to put the animals at the vet overnight and have them medically de-flea them while the entire house is bombed, but that's really not an option as it's pretty expansive. Also keep in mind my jackass of a roomate will likely not be helping me in this because, well, she sucks.
I guess I could wait a few weeks and do this once I have more money from my new job, however to give you an idea of how bad this is, as I am writing this I have killed 2 of them I caught crawling on my legs. So far my roomates solution has been to not spend any time at the house (althought they have infested her room at this point now too). In the long term I plan to move out of here, but as I actually know the guy that owns this place I'd like to get it back in some kind of livable order for new people that would move in.
And yes, this sucks.