Fleas,

[SeaCat]

Damn I hate it when this shit happens.

Our place is being invaded by Fleas.

The cats and kittens aren't bringing them in, they are protected both by "Frontline" and by collars. (Not to mention the farthest they go outside is the screened in Patio,.

It's the weather driving them inside.

We will defeat them, it's just a matter of enough toxins and being more stubborn than they are but it's a royal pain in the butt. (This happens like once a year down here.)

The worst part of it though is this is just the beginning. We know that by the time we rid ourselves of the Fleas it will have cooled enough outside to drive the spiders inside. (And that truly freaks my wife out.) Ahh well give us a month and we'll be bug free for a while.

In the spring it's the ants and the Roaches.

Ahhh well, I might even have a defense against the roaches for the spring time. I have been doing a bit of research and it seems these ultrasonic emitters work well against them. Over the winter, (the dry season here,) I shall be redoing our floors and walls and will be embedding emitters in the floors and walls both pointing in as well as out.

Cat

 

[human_male]

I find a few of those flea bombs work really well.

 

[SeaCat]

I find a few of those flea bombs work really well.

Bombs are an idea, but it would require me loading six cats in the car for longer than either they or I would appreciate.

Tomorrow I get the materials needed for the war. Several cans of rug spray, several containers of rug powder.

Saturday mornign we'll chase all of the cats into the back room with the usual supplies of food and water. We'll spray the rugs and head off to work. When we get home we'll powder the rugs and let the herd out to wander. (They will all head out onto the patio.)

A couple of days of this treatment will usually get the job done.

Oh and I'll be spraying around the place, around and under it. (I have a can sprayer and plenty of bug spray concentrate.)

Cat

 

[R. Richard]

Our place is being invaded by Fleas.

Ahhh well, I might even have a defense against the roaches for the spring time. I have been doing a bit of research and it seems these ultrasonic emitters work well against them. Over the winter, (the dry season here,) I shall be redoing our floors and walls and will be embedding emitters in the floors and walls both pointing in as well as out.

Cat

There is considerable debate as to the effectiveness of ultrasonic sound on insects. I am not an expert in the area nor do I have any experience. If I were you, I would talk to people in your area who have used the ultrasonic devices, do not sell the ultrasonic devices and consider them effective before I invested a lot if time and money in said devices.

In addition, there are ultrasonic devices manufactured by unethical people that don't work, even if ultrasonic sound does work on insects. If you do decide to go ultrasonic, find a brand that works.

JMHO.

 

[Guest]

Cat - You can try putting the furry bunch in the bathroom if you don't have carpet in there. Then shove a towel under the door from the outside and duct taping the towel down ( I tape the door sides/top too), essentially sealing them in so you can flea bomb (works on spiders too) the house. This is what I do. I live in PNW where fleas can be a problem until the colder months.

The bombs work the best and usually one time application.

 

[Huckleman2000]

This happened to me when I moved into a house once. I'd never had to deal with fleas before, and it was a week or two before I even realized where those bites were coming from when I walked around outside. I dragged the old carpet outside and threw it out (revealing nice wood floors underneath!), sprayed and powdered everything I could, including the entire yard (twice). But it wasn't until I discovered the flea mothership in an old doghouse built by the previous owner that I got rid of them totally.

I don't know about the ultrasonic devices, although I know someone with one of those propane-powered things that are supposed to control mosquitoes, and it works like a charm! It takes a couple weeks before it really kicks in (it works by interfering with the reproduction cycle of mosquitoes, since on ly females bite), but at an outdoor party in August, there were hardly any mosquitoes n the whole yard! No fogging, no cirtronella candles, nothing!

 

[scheherazade_79]

Don't know if this'll be any help to you, Cat, but fleas like laying their eggs around the edges of rooms - just where the walls meet the floor. Vacuuming those areas several times a day for a couple of consecutive days is pretty effective when you combine it with the sprays, bombs etc.

I'm scratching, just reading this

 

[Guest]

Don't know if this'll be any help to you, Cat, but fleas like laying their eggs around the edges of rooms - just where the walls meet the floor.

Hmm. I learned something today. I didn't know that about fleas.

 

[SeaCat]

Okay the herd has been treated.

The rugs have been dusted, with the dust rubbed in. We waited for several hours then vacuumed. We then sprayed, oh did we spray.

Two days later we did the same thing.

Last night I also sprayed down the area around the trailer as well as the patio itself. (The only place the herd is outside.) I covered an area six feet wide and also trossed several bombs under the trailer. (I went through four sprayer tanks and six bombs.)

No fleas today.

We will of course do it all over again in a couple of days just to make sure we got everyone of the little buggers.

Cat