Want to give up all our animals - fleas driving me crazy!!!

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Please help. Im at the end of my tether. I cant begin to explain to you how many flea videos, forums, and vets ive watched and spoke to. We live in a household with one dog and 2 cats and short of shaving their fur and want to give them all up.

Ive been battling this flea infestation now for months and it doesnt seem to be getting any better. Problem is i live with my dps parents and we have a baby (who is also getting bitten). They dont want any "harsh" chemicals but literally every room except 1 is carpeted so their house is a breeding ground.

What really pisses me off is dps mum is more worried about her dog than me. Ive only recently had a baby and trying to get my head around my new body and scarring only to now have a bloody collection of horrible flea bites ranging up from my ankle to leg. Its leaving permnant scarring and its making me depressed. The bites dont just come up as a little red dot anymore, they come up in yellow cystic lump that either end up bursting or bleeding. I look diseased. Ive asked dps mum if she would consider flea bomb when i was desperate and upset and she said no, but the other day her precious dog (who keeps scratching himself and his fleas all over all my cleaning) came up in some bumps and she was in dismay! She suggested flea bombs (although she still hasnt and clearly wont do it) and kept pining over how bad he must be.

Im furious. Ive spent so much money on flea shampoo and sprays. Hoovered the entire house like crazy and trying to wash everything like a mad man. All animals have had flea treatments and seresto collars.

There is really nothing more i can do.

Sorry for the rant i just really needed to vent. Its an endless battle and the fleas are winning. It got so bad i couldnt even shower or wear trousers because my legs where covered in bites all over.

I want to give up the animals but i have no control over them. Nothing is worth this level of anguish and suffering.

Please help

Even if you give up the animals the eggs can live seventeen years.

It's 'harsh chemicals' or nothing sadly.

Ive never had a problem with the chemicals, thats fine by me! But dps mum wont allow it. So were all stuck in this hell hole. They just dont care because weirdly im the only one being made a meal out of

Is it your home or your In Laws home? Who do the pets belong to?

I'd move out of my in laws home tbh if they weren't able to manage this and my child was being bitten.

Indorex spray for the house and vet treatment for the animals

I'm not sure about the 17 years claim though

17 years is a conservative estimate.

Indorex the shit out of the place when they are not home?

Do you have a link to the 17 year claim because everything I've read gives a shorter lifespan?

Bravecto for the animals. Indorex for the house.

Erm, Bravecto for the pets every 3 months. Then the carpet treatments, etc.

We stayed in a house with fleas once, grim. I went from no chemicals to all the chemicals quite quickly.

Had dogs for years, no fleas.

If they won't do anything and it's making you miserable then you probably need to look at moving out.

It's grim but ultimately it's not your house.

You can’t wipe out fleas without effectively treating the house. Your ILs won’t effectively treat their house.

Wait til she goes out. Treat her ddog with stuff from the vets. Otc stuff never works.. Carpet /household spray from pets at home cost us 18 quid but worked...
Or move out.

Don't waste your money on super market or pet store crap. Flea bombs don't work. Flea collars don't work (except seresto which is prescription). Flea shampoo does not work.

Treat all of the pets with prescription flea treatment on the same day.

At the same time, hot wash the bedding and hoover everywhere like a mad woman.

Use a flea spray that has an insect growth regulator like Indorex.

You have to put your baby over your MIL. If she can't accept that, I'd be moving out in your position.

Not your house , not your animals , I’ve had a dog for 11 yrs properly treated for fleas and I’ve never seen a flea . If your in-laws won’t treat the animals with an effective prescription treatment and won’t treat the house with an effective chemical there is nothing you can do . Can you move out .

Grim for the baby and the animals too. Continuous flea infestation is a welfare issue, I would think. You have a DP problem too, if he's not on this with his parents and the pets.

Thanks all for the advice. I used to work in a vets so i do know they need treatment. Both cats have monthy advocate which i give. House is sprayed down with indorex and hoovered. All materials and fabrics on a 60 wash. Fleas are like super fleas. Cats have seresto. Think at this point the fleas must have an immunity to the treatments. Flea bath dog and 1 cat. That helps to get alot of them to show face and then i comb them off and watch the suckers drown in fairy liquid. The problem is dps mum wont flea treat the dog at the same time with the cats so its all for nothing

Don't bath them if they have been treated with spot on treatment
Maybe advocate isn't working for you any more. Speak to the vet in case a different one works better in your area

Unless all the animals are flea treated at the same time, none of the treatment you give to the cats is going to make the blindest bit of difference, unfortunately.

Advocate is also known for not being too effective, but that's irrelevant if the dog isn't being treated too.

What are your plans for moving out? If its not your house and not your pets there's nothing you can do really.
So sorry for the poor flea ridden creatures that MIL is not treating appropriately.
I think I read that correctly? Not your house/pets?

I would think it's a welfare issue, if not for the pets then certainly for a baby living in a home riddled with biting insects and no efforts being made to remove them. Could you approach it in that way with your in-laws? Are you still seeing a HV? Could they maybe come round and explain the issue while your MIL sits in?

Do a deep steam clean of all house textiles.

It’s safe for all and will kill fleas.

FLEAS! HELP! This has been a very traumatic year for me. The house is infested with fleas with no pets! I was given a nice lounge chair that turned out to have fleas, before we knew what was going on they had spread all over the house. We've wasted an extremely large amount of money on bombs, sprays, powders and anything that we thought would get rid of them. I am the only one they bite, I've even had them burrow into my skin, GROSS! I can't get them out of my clothing and shoes, no matter how many times they're washed or how hot the water. They're even in my hair and I feel them in my underwear too! I feel so gross and ashamed. We have been using Terminex for the last 4 months with little success. I'm so depressed and really need help and advice. Maybe even a support group!

Proper rest control?

*Pest

FLEAS! (Continued from last post)
Im afraid to go over anyone's home because I took the fleas to my daughter's house, I'm assuming from off my clothes and body, so now she's battling them as well. They're not biting her and my grandbabies but she does feel them in her underwear (privates) moving around, ugh!

That sounds horrendous, OP.

Can you just get pest control in when she is out of the house?

If they are biting your baby you have to do what you have to do.