Friend has fleas

[Ohdeargodicant]

I went to my friends house. They have many furry pets. The place is riddled with fleas. I've ended up infested in my own home after going there and I have no pets! Even found a couple in the car.
How do I avoid going there without being rude? She seems oblivious and her poor animals are crawling with them. It's not the first time this has happened. It's cost me a lot of time and money in flea treatment for my house and I don't have animals! It's rare that I go there and am not bitten by the time I leave. I'm obviously transferring them on my person but how do you avoid this?

Encourage her to contact PDSA for low-cost flea treatment. Either that or she needs to contact Cats Protection (or the dog equivalent) and ask them to take the pets. If she can’t afford routine treatments she’s putting those animals through hell. My cats caught fleas over the summer that appeared to be resistant to the usual brand of treatment/preventative therapies. One of them ended up with awful scabs and lost fur from scratching, which all resolved not long after getting a new treatment from the vet. Animals shouldn’t live like that long term — a brief incident is bad enough.

RE your house: have you tried Indorex? There are some useful threads on The Litter Tray board about banishing fleas. As you don’t have animals in the house you shouldn’t have too many problems shifting them.

Turn up in a scenes of crime suit with mask, gloves, hairnet and wellies.

I couldn't be friends with someone who didn't look after their pets properly.

I couldn't be friends with somebody like that. It's absolutely cruel to have pets that you don't look after properly. It's horrible to be friends with someone and expect them to come round to your house where they're going to get bitten and carry fleas back to their own house.

I believed this too until we moved into our lovely (very much longed for - a long story!) private rental house and spotted a flea on my 3 year old son’s pj top!
I also had the classic itchy bitey ankles 🙁
It turns out the previous tenants had an undeclared cat!🐈‍⬛
I had to get Rentoki in. Thank goodness LL paid!