Feel like rehoming these cats due to fleas.

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I can't deal with fleas anymore. I am not a dirty person I can't bare the thought of fleas being in my home around me or my children. I've ordered all indorex and flea treatment but im petrified it won't work.

The small cat has fleas so bad they are just walking all over her head, she's scratching every second of the day and it's just making me so angry and disgusted.
I know it's not their fault but I've had enough of this shit. They was treated in the vet and every thing was ok and ever since it's now got worse.

I am at the stage now where I want the cats gone. I have 2 and I know it's cruel but I can't deal with this. I'm due a baby in December and I need to get this shit sorted before they are born.

My husband is pissed off with me for feeling like this but it's draining. My house feels dirty and taken over and it's by cats? I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm more posting this to vent but I just can't deal with seeing it scratch itself one more time.
I tried to use a nit comb and try and remove a bulk of them off but it was just disgusting and they begun jumping every where. 😭😭

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I don’t have a link but please look up the flea lifecycle. It’s like a butterfly lifecycle and there are two stages - egg and pupa that live off the cat and ate hard to kill.
these can lay dormant for months in your house, relatively unaffected by the treatments.
Hoovering creates vibrations that encourage the eggs to hatch and the warmth of turning the heating on does so too.
You can treat the love fleas kn the cats with something that kills them (the fleas, not the cats- but be very careful not to use the wrong flea collar) but you need to do this very regularly as they will become infested with the hatching out fleas.
you also need to hoover and treat the house and furnishings regularly too.
Some of the flea treatments out on or into the cat will have an effect on the larvae as they will eat flakes of dead skin, and some treatments stop the eggs from developing once they are laid.
it’s so not straightforward and it will take a while to get on top of it all.
it needs coordinated treatments and it need patience I’m afraid.

Re-home the cats. To someone who will flea treat them effectively and hopefully be able to treat their house too.

@MuMumoffairy - I didn't say I only vaccum every 10 days.
Jeez - judgey! Such nastiness in this world.

@SwordToFlamethrower ridiculous. If you flea treat with decent stuff from the vets ( we use advantage) monthly. And spray house with Indorex your cats won’t have fleas.
I also agree with seventy. When you take on a pet you are responsible for all their care. This includes making sure they are free from fleas and worms. This is about a neglectful owner.

We had a flea infestation lays year. It's not nice at all. We have monthly direct debit with the vets, where we get a monthly tablet form of flea treatment. We also bought a bomb online, well we actually bought a few and had to do it twice. Fortunately we have been fine since. As oyher said, its all a case of washing everything you possibly can (cats beds), soft furnishings and vacuuming everywhere. I know how horrible it is. But you need to treat the cats regularly. Could you look a t getting a professional company in if all else fails?

We've always used advantage drops for our cats. Currently three. Get it online rather than via vets. Sounds like your cats need some loving.

www.vetuk.co.uk/pet-meds-prescription-only-nexgard-combo-c-21_2666/nexgard-combo-2-5-7-5kg-spot-on-solution-for-large-cats-p-46660

my vet prescribed this, and although it may seem expensive it’s a combined flea and worm treatment. We had a problem for months and tried every non-prescription brand, but nexguard solved the problem within a week.

I hate the idea that you can 'change your mind' about pets, they are not cushions, or a haircut. When you get a pet, you make a commitment, like when you have a child. Pet ownership is not easy, and it isn't all frolics and cuddles - this is part and parcel of what pet care entails. It sounds like you need the council to come and spray your home OP, and treat the pets at the same time, to break the cycle. I would get this done quickly before baby comes as I wouldn't bring a newborn into an environment freshly treated with pesticides.

Actually our heating came on this week so that also coincides with the sudden flea resurgence

Anyone know if you can give another flea treatment to the cats only 3 weeks after the last one?

Look at Advantage for cats. Use every 4 weeks. Do not discontinue as cats will just be reinfected.
Look on Amazon and get some flea bombs. Use a week to 2 weeks after you start the Advantage. Move the cats outside. Remove any houseplants, cage birds, fish. Set off bombs (1 in every room in the house) Leave the house for several hours. Hoover on your return.

I sympathise as I bloody hate fleas, but I do feel for the poor cats! I'm reading this thread with interest (you'll see why below!). When we first moved into this house, we had a flea infestation (possibly because previous owners had dogs/cats, and then when I put heating on, it kick started everything). It took me weeks to get it sorted. Nightmare when you're unpacking, working FT and have two kids (we didn't have cats/any furry pets then!). Diatomaceous earth (the food grade stuff), flea bombing the place, vacuuming daily helped then!

I now have 4 cats (a Maine Coon, two BSH and a part MC/part god-knows what). For the first time, I found fleas on them in early September (despite being meticulous with applying the vet-prescribed spot on stuff for them every month, daily vacuuming and so on). The only thing I can think is that we'd gone on holiday for 10 days in the fortnight preceding this - ergo no one home to vacuum place - and also the vet had changed the spot-on prescription from Prinovox to Stronghold Plus for two of my cats (of the other two, one is still on Prinovox for the moment, and the MC is on Advantage). Maybe that made a difference to things.

Anyway, I freaked out and phoned the vet about it. Vet told me that loads of people had phoned in about flea issues that weekend. From what I understood re: spot-on stuff that the vet prescribed - the flea has to jump on cat and then feed on cat, and only then is killed. Soooo, whole place was sprayed with indorex, flea bombed, everything washed, cats were combed through and given the flea tablets in addition to their spot on (cat eats tablet and then fleas will literally drop off the cat and die). Problem went away.

I found a couple of fleas on the MC this weekend, during my weekly comb through/check (I have a metal Nitty Gritty comb for the kids and check them weekly as I'm paranoid about nits: since last month, I also have a separate metal Nitty Gritty comb for the cats - they're weirdos and actually like being checked/combed through with the Nitty Gritty!!). So extra load of indorex sprayed about. Flea traps have been put in the different rooms. I've ordered some food grade diatomaceous earth to sprinkle under/between floorboards in my house (all original wood floors).

One thing I've not thought of is that fleas live in the garden. My cats have the freedom to go in/out the house during daylight hours, so it could be that the critters are hitch-hiking a lift in from the garden via my cats. I read that nematodes can kill fleas and this time of year is a good time to start treating the garden (putting nematodes in to garden), so that will be my next port of call. As an aside, if anyone has tried this, I'd love to know if things improved!

Weirdly, a lady I know has two cats. She doesn't give them the spot on stuff from the vet....she only gives them the flea tablet (that makes the fleas fall off the cats!). And she's never had a problem with fleas.

TLDR, many sympathies to you OP, and of course to the poor cats. I really hope that you can get things sorted for the sake of the cats as well as yourself. I've tried a shit load of different things in past few weeks. Shout out if anyone else has additional ideas.

I am very concerned about your attitude to the cats and especially as you are pregnant and may neglect/ignore/find the cats too much for you. I don't know the circumstances to how you got them and why you got them but it may well be kinder for the poor creatures if you put them up for adoption with a reputable animal shelter.

If it's a spot on treatment check you are using it correctly - lots of people aren't. The liquid has to go directly on to skin. For a short haired cat you can get away without doing it properly but on a long haired you really need to separate the hair so that you can apply to bare skin. Also check you are giving the correct dose for the cats current weight.

@HotPenguin absolutely! The weight thing is important too. My vets are very good with ensuring the cats have the right dosage for their weight.

I noticed something online either on facebook or you tube. I was a circular thing not sure if you plug it in or it has batteries or something, but this lady was a huge problem with fleas (think she had dogs) and you could see all the fleas, dead in this circular thingy.

I've had 10 cats and NONE of them had fleas as you describe, this is clearly total neglect.
If the original flea stuff didn't work then go back to the vet for the stronger stuff. You can get stuff that you apply every 3 months which is basically flea armageddon.
The house I bought was flea ridden as elderly owner with cats so I had it fumigated, end of problem.
I simply cannot understand how you got into this state. You should rehome the cats because you clearly don't have the common sense to look after them.

You'll never totally get rid of cat fleas. For some reason some cats get them worse than others. I've always had cats and a couple had fleas that were immune to anything. The three I have now (for 13 years) have had a few fleas but nothing bad. TBH I think you should take the cats back, it doesn't sound as if you're prepared to look after them. Were they sickly when you got them?

@Diamondsareforever123 of course you can get rid of fleas. Indorex house. Flea stuff from vets regularly.