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Help - fleas!

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AgathaMystery · 28/09/2018 08:17

I know this could be in pets but honestly I know someone here will know the answer.

On Monday I found a flea on my 2yr old cat. Further inspection revealed more little friends. He doesn't really leave our garden so I was surprised. We do flea-treat him but there we go - he has fleas.

On Tuesday we had some bites so DC went off to a friends house and we got flea treatment stuff from our Vet.

DH & I pulled the house apart. Every room has had:

-All the furniture pulled from the walls
-Floors and curtains thoroughly hoovered
-under beds and sofas pulled out and hoovered
-every room flea sprayed
-Shut off for 24hrs

We didn't flea treat the (fucking) cat because it was too soon since his last treatment.

We moved back in to the house on Thursday. This morning I have found white egg type things on a piece of furniture and a LIVE FLEA drowning in the water glass by my bed - WHAT THE HELL?! This makes me think it fell off the cat as he cannot resist a water glass.

SadSadConfused

So. I've flea treated the cat even though it may be a bit too soon. Vet said it was fine to do this.

Can anyone help - what have we missed?! How is anything still alive in this sodding house?!

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Sicario · 28/09/2018 08:20

Nightmare. You'll have to treat the house again.

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AgathaMystery · 28/09/2018 08:24

That's what I think too.

To add insult to injury the bloody cat only likes my husband!

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serbska · 28/09/2018 08:26

You have to keep hoovering for quite a few days after treating the house, the eggs are dormant and you need to wake the eggs up and then they wake and die.

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serbska · 28/09/2018 08:27

Indorex works well for the house.

What are you using on the cat? Lots don’t actually work any more (broadline, frontline)

beargryllshasabigrope · 28/09/2018 08:28

Indorex is the best for treating a house. It's cheaper on amazon than from a vets. You have to treat EVERYWHERE, and wash everything that you can. You need to hoover as much as you possibly can and hoover anything that can't be washed. Backs of sofas and under beds especially. Also along skirting boards and around furniture. Pop a flea collar in your hoover to kill any of the little buggers that you suck up.

Some flea treatments (frontline, broadline) contain an ingredient that a lot of fleas have become immune to, so make sure your cat is treated with a product like advocate. Bob Martin is also absolute shite and shouldn't be sold, it doesn't work.

I can sympathise. I've had fleas twice and they're no fun, but it does pass if you're vigilant and treat both your house and your cat with good treatments.

beargryllshasabigrope · 28/09/2018 08:29

Oh, iirc the flea life cycle is something like 2-3 weeks, so you need to keep going until you can be sure that all eggs have hatched and the fleas have been dealt with. Google will be your friend with that one.

Tidypidy · 28/09/2018 08:30

You need something powerful like Indorex (speaks from bitter experience). Spray whole house, along the skirting boards everywhere then do not hoover for a week. After a week hoover thoroughly and spray again. Leave another week before hoovering again.

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AgathaMystery · 28/09/2018 08:33

Thank you all.

Yes we hoovered EVERYWHERE and EVERYTHING. we used Indorex for the spray and Bravecto on the beast.

Honestly I could cry.

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IamReginaFalange · 28/09/2018 08:40

Put a flea collar in the hoover bag to kill them in there too.

Zoe2411 · 28/09/2018 08:40

This happened to my poor mum ( they were previously DP cats that I had persuaded her to home as I had dogs and we were moving in together ) her whole house became flea city ! We did everything like yourself , retreated the two cats , hoovered daily , washed everything fabric , bombed the rooms , the whole lot !

The only thing that eventually worked was I called a specialist guy out (£120 but well worth it as my mum was at the end of her tether and so upset ) and he did the whole house , she came to stay at mine and we vacced the next day and cleaned within an inch, and touch wood , have had no problems since so it might well be you have to draft someone in if you've tried everything xx

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AgathaMystery · 28/09/2018 08:46

Right now £120 sounds like a bargain.

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winegal · 28/09/2018 08:53

We've had exactly the same thing as you. Pulling our hair out. We move house (potentially) in a month or so so thinking we'll send the cat for a day at the vets to be treated while we pay people to come and fumigate the house. The thought of dragging them to the new house fills me with dread!!

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AgathaMystery · 28/09/2018 08:56

My local council do a fumigation for £114. I'm booking it.

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Corbby1 · 28/09/2018 09:00

Totally feel your pain, we have had the same situation. We Indorex'd over and over again, it took weeks unfortunately as they are hardy little f'ers but eventually they gave up!! Good luck xx

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