You have to treat the whole house and ALL the animals... and YOUR bedding, too!... Including the mattress and box spring. Everything! Get your sister some prescribed flea treatment and put it on the doggie yourself if you have to!
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Fleas!!!!!! What to do?!?!
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You have to flea treat the kitties (all of them) and clean the house... There are smoke foggers available at your pet store to help bomb the fleas away... It is a major task but it needs to be done. Basically you should put a fogger in every room (you and the kitties need to be out of the house when this is done... For at least 2-3 hours after setting the foggers off). Before you go back into the house open the windows for about an hour so the excess stuff isnt in the air. You need to open your closets, set your mattress up against the wall (so the fogger hits both sides), etc... It's just like lice in a sense... Everything needs to be cleaned... It takes 24 hours once the flea treatment is given to the kitties for the fleas to go dormant... Frontline is a good one and so is Hartz.
Don't bother with flea collars. They are junk imo. Definitely do not flea treat and use a flea collar. That is too much toxins for a kitty to handle and then you will have bigger issues to worry about!
As most people said vacuuming wont do the trick. I know there are sprays and such to treat the carpet and furniture but foggers are a better bet. Not cheap but cheaper than an exterminator!
If your kitties get outside time there is a yard spray preventative as well to think about!
Don't bother with flea collars. They are junk imo. Definitely do not flea treat and use a flea collar. That is too much toxins for a kitty to handle and then you will have bigger issues to worry about!
As most people said vacuuming wont do the trick. I know there are sprays and such to treat the carpet and furniture but foggers are a better bet. Not cheap but cheaper than an exterminator!
If your kitties get outside time there is a yard spray preventative as well to think about!
Be careful with using the foggers, some older members here do not recommend them. Also, try to stay away from Hartz products as some have been known to cause death.
You can cut up a flea collar and put it in your vacuum but if you are vacuuming up fleas and eggs, you need to empty the bag outside after each vacuuming.
Don't bother with sprays for carpet and furniture - they are ineffective usually and toxic mostly. For carpets and furniture the very best thing is to sprinkle Diatomaceous Earth (HUMAN/FOOD GRADE ONLY) onto the carpet, brush it down into the fibres with a broom and it will kill any fleas and any fleas that hatch from the eggs.
I don't like foggers for 2 reasons: 1) they don't work because they can't get into cracks and crevices and 2) you are putting poison into your home. They are a big waste of money and a hazard to your health.
The best thing that I've ever used is the FOOD GRADE Diatomaceous Earth. It killed fleas when everything else failed.
And to the OP: LPGS is an auto-immune disease and cats with this can often have other issues such as allergies (which are often triggered by auto-immune diseases). So your vet may have tried to relate his hair loss to LPGS, set off by the fleas. I have an LPGS cat who was mostly hairless for years - his allergy was to a dog, not fleas.