AHHHH my stupid cats have fleas....again?

Fleas are persistent buggers... no pun intended. LOL!

It's quite possible there were flea eggs in your home prior to your arrival... and you & your pets occupancy started the cycle of flea infestation. Completely developed adult fleas can remain in their pupal casings for over a year, waiting for a suitable host... ewwwww.

Banishing the adult fleas is the FIRST priority/phase... then banishing their eggs and newly hatched babies is your SECOND priority/phase.

For a really bad home infestation, you'll have to be absolutely vigilent for about 3 months... then you can ease up, but only a tich.

What you'll need:

    >> Vacuum Cleaner

    >> Flea & Tick Control Medicine... Advantage, or Frontline Plus, or another brand-name... make sure it's the liquid that's applied to the base of your kittie's neck.

    >> Flea Collars... again, buy name-brand

    >> Fogging Pesticide... don't scrimp on quality or quantity and make sure the label specifies it'll kill fleas.

    >> Spray Pesticide... I've had excellent results w/ Adams Home Flea & Tick Spray (see link, below))

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Process... this ALL needs to be completed w/in one 24-hour period.

1. Apply flea & tick medicine to cats... I've found swaddling them in a huge bath towel will give you access to the critical "base of neck" area without suffering a megaskajillion scratches.

2. Vacuum house THOROUGHLY... make sure you get all the areas the cats frequent as well as along all the baseboards, inside closets, under "to the floor" furntiure," and all nooks & crannies. Pay special attention to any areas that are warm, humid and/or get no sunlight... under the refrigerator and freezer, under the washer & dryer, near fireplaces, electronics, and lamps (where kitties might curl up for the warmth).

When finished vacuuming, IMMEDIATELY take the vacuum cleaner OUT of the house and dispose of the vacuum cleaner bag into a sealed trash bag in a trash can. Adult fleas are small enough to escape a vacuum cleaner bag up to DAYS after they've been vacuumed, so don't take any chances on re-infestation by keeping the bag in the vacuum.

3. Dispose of any cat bedding you may have. If disposal is impractical, wash it SEVERAL TIMES in the hottest water possible and put it through 2-3 rinse cycles and then dry in the hottest dryer cycle possible.

If your kitties don't have specific bedding, then use the Adam's Flea & Tick Spray on the areas where they most often sleep.

4. Fog your home... read the entire label, follow the directions and either take your kitties out of the house w/ you, or locate them in the smallest bathroom you have and seal the doors w/ a rolled up towel before fogging. If there's a gap at the TOP of the door, fold a towel once or twice and drape over the door before you close it to get a good seal.

5. Within 24 hours of applying the flea & tick medicine to your cats, put a flea collar on 'em.

Follow-Up...

1. Repeat the thorough vacuuming every five days for the next month. Yeah, you'll need a new bag for every vacuuming, but it's the only way to ensure you're not harboring those nastie beasties... LOL! Thereafter, vacuum ultra-thoroughly at least once every 10 days.

2. Use the Adams Flea & Tick Spray on the kittie's bedding --or sleeping spots-- every 10 days for the next 2-3 months. BIM that this may cause your cats to change where they sleep, so pay attention to both the old AND the new spots.

3. Apply new flea & tick control medicine to your kitties every 30 days, and a new collar every 60 days.

Adult fleas can live 100+ days, and female adult fleas will drop 20-40 eggs per day... so you can see it's long-term vigilence --not just a couple of days/applications-- that'll rid your home of fleas.

Make the hosts --your cats-- unattrative to the adult fleas and rid your home of the flea eggs, and you'll be okay.

Hope this helps,

      TX Griff

Most powders can not kill flea eggs. You have to vacuum (throw the bag away instantly - out of the house) every couple days. Your cats can get toxic if you bathe them with flea shampoo. There is a chewable that you can get at the vet's office for the kitties to chew up that will kill the fleas in a couple hours, but there is still the egg problem - so treat the fleas with Frontline products on the cat - I heard one suggestion that said to trade off every other month with Frontline and Advantage so that you won't have a problem with the fleas becoming immune. Every time you vacuum it stirs up the eggs and helps the fleas hatch out. The trick is to remember to throw away the bag instantly. Good luck!

First of all, CATS HATE WATER.

You are gonna have a battle on your hands trying to give any cat a bath.

Flea powder is worthless IMO, just messy.

I have 6 cats and 3 of them are persian or himmys.

I cant afford to buy 6 Advantage every month so I found out from some other cat people that you can BUY 1 LARGE DOG DOSE of Advantage.

I put mine in a shot glass after opening it and you get a syringe (without a needle) that measures up to 1ml.

Since you are not going to use the whole tube at once I don't know if it keeps in the original container after opened with the cap put back on.

You can ask the vet.

Cats under 10 pounds you use 0.4ml on the back of their neck.

Cats over 10 pounds you use 0.8ml the same way.

One $12.00 adult dog dose treats all 6 of my cats.

There is no excuse for not treating the cat with a flea treatment. Its not like they are going to do it for themselves.

I would get some kind of spray for the carpet and wash your sheets. The fleas will die out with nothing to survive on.

Okay here is the answer to your question. The fleas are coming in on your shoes in the form of eggs when you walk across the grass and come into your home. People who live in high rise appartments have been known to have fleas in their homes and on their pets that never go outside. Now for the solution...You need to treat the grass all around the outside or your house. There are many products available. You can get them at a home and garden place or check at Walmart. They come in a liquid that you hook to your garden hose and also granules that you spread on your lawn. Most will last for one month. Then you will need to treat the inside of the house. I have used the flea powders made for carpets and they work fairly well. You will need to sprinkle on the carpet (get around the baseboards well) and in and under the cushions on your sofa. Rake it in the carpet well. Leave for a while and let it sit then vaccuum it up. Put Frontline or Advantage on your cats. Do not use flea shampoo on your cats prior to putting these products on them...and do not use any kind of flea shampoo on them while you have these products on them. You may have to retreat in 2 weeks after the initial infestation because you will have eggs and larve that will hatch out in the mean time. It is very hard to kill the larval stage. After that you should have it under control and be able to treat monthly. It can be expensive but not as expensive as an exterminator...

1. Buy advatage.

2. Buy some flea bombs (at your grocery store)

You set them up in a room and it kills all the fleas within a certain sized area.

3. Vacuume when after you flea bomb.

4. Keep up with the advantage. It will save you much stress.

Try frontline on your cats. You can get flea bombers at walmart. Make sure you get the carpets very well. You probably killed the fleas but not the eggs so make sure that what ever you use also kills the flea eggs.

You need to keep a monthly topical on your cat every single month. Frontline plus is the only thing that I have found to actually work. My dogs use this and have never had a flea in their entire lives.Its the only stuff that actually works.

Maybe its because their stupid owner doesnt use flea and tick preventative on them once a month. This will keep the fleas off the cats, but they will still bite humans if they are still in the house.

Why are your cats stupid because they have fleas? I'm sure they would love for them to be gone.

Use advantage and you will never have a flea problem again.

i had the same problem at my moms and we went through the whole list of options and the best theing we found was an arisol spray from the vet it is in a black can cant think of the name but it works immediately and the best thing it is inexpensive a 20.00 bill took care of it all if that dont fit what u might be needing then try things with citrus in it to spray the carpets and bath the cats in fles hate citrus