What is the best way to get rid of fleas from your cat and your house?

Question

What is the best way to get rid of fleas from your cat and your house?

Answer 1

Nuke it

Answer 2

Here's a page with some good advice on how to get them out of your house:

http://www.catsofaustralia.com/fleasgetr...

For your cat, there are flea collars, flea shampoos. It's also best if you keep your cat indoors, obviously that will reduce the likelihood that you'll have another infestation. Make sure your cat is healthy, too - when I got my first cat, he was nearing death because he was so anemic from an untreated flea infestation.

Answer 3

clean all the carpets, rugs, clothes, bedding, etc etc

wash the cat, get it a flea collar, and pray they're gone.

when my cat brought in fleas they stayed for a couple months, but we didn't know they were there until it got out of control.

Answer 4

flea bomb

Answer 5

Smoke Bomb.

Then treat your cat so they don't come back!

Hope I Helped <3.

Good Luck Hun

Answer 6

From my blog:

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Here's another new product which could be used instead of Advantage or Frontline Plus.  Promeris.  www.promeris.com.  I am not (yet) promoting this product, but it is worth investigating further.

1. Treat the cat. Go to your vet and get either Advantage or Frontline Plus (I went with Advantage).

In addition, please know that healthy cats are less likely to become infested.  I can attest to the truth of this.  Last summer when Poppy got fleas, Sophie didn't.  Although otherwise healthy Poppy has had her share of digestive issues.  The least you can do is ensure that your cats are eating good foods (see my other blog entries on this topic.)

Keep your cats inside.  You can control your home environment but you can't control the great outdoors.  Even if you treat your yard, your cat may pick them up outside of that.

2. Get yourself a "flea comb" and comb your cat at least once per day. Have a bucket with dish soap in it handy to dunk the comb in and to collect the hair. Fleas can't jump out of the slippery soap. No point in combing them out only to have them jump back on your cat. Flush this down the toilet, pour it down the sink, or dispose of it away from your house.

3. Treat your house. Options are a borate powder product or something that uses diatomaceous earth. Fleabusters (BP), Fleago Natural Flea Control (BP) or Flea Away Natural Flea Powder (DE). Put about a tablespoon of this in your vacuum cleaner bag (or you can cut up a flea collar to put in there. Just follow the directions which will vary by product, but in general you'll sprinkle on the carpet and vacuum up and also sprinkle into cracks and crevices. (I chose Fleago because it's less expensive than Fleabusters. I may also try Flea Away in time).

4. Vacuum as often as possible. Before vacuuming, stomp around the house. This will bring the fleas to life because they'll think there's a tasty morsel out there. Then vacuum those little b******s up. Be sure to use your attachments to vacuum as many cracks and crevices as you can - they love to hide out there.

5. Wash any pet bedding in hot water, and you'll want to be particularly diligent about vacuuming/treating areas where your cat hangs out.

6. Treat your yard. Even if your cat doesn't go outside, fleas may enter your home if they exist in your yard. There's a small chance that you or others may bring fleas in the house with you (although this is unlikely). Get hold of some nematodes to spray in your yard. I believe you only have to do this once per year. These little creatures will eat the flea larva. As one website put it, these critters are too small to hug, but they deserve it! (I had to order this online; I wasn't able to find a place that sells them in my area and didn't feel like calling every place in the phonebook).

Things not to do: Don't use any essential oils on your cat, particularly anything with pennyroyal or eucalyptus. They're toxic to cats. Don't use flea collars. Don't give your cat any garlic/yeast formulations. Don't give your cat lemon baths.

You're going to want to continue treating your home as directed, whether that be sprinkling once per week or once a month. Continue treating throughout flea season (when it's warm). You can stop during the winter months, but start up again in the spring. You'll nip them in the bud!

The key is to treat the environment in addition to the cat. If you do that, you may never have to apply another flea product directly on them again.

Answer 7

I had the same problem a few years ago, it was so bad that everyone in the house was covered in flea bites!. I tried flea baths and flea collers for the cat with no luck. So a friend recommended Frontline Plus for my cat.

I went ahead and tried it.. It was extremely effective and the fleas were all gone within a few days. I made sure to give the cat a 2nd treatment the following month, just in case. Ever since then there have been no fleas in the house or on the cat, and best of all no itchy bites to deal with.

Answer 8

You'll need to get pet flea and tick killer spray and spray things like...your curtains and your couch, but WASH things like pillowcases, blankets, in the washing machine on hot. It will kill the fleas. Be sure to wash your pet in flea and tick killer shampoo ( I like hartz ) and you can get both of these items anywhere, really. If you want to take the extra step on getting flea drops to put on your animals back then okay, but shampooing and cleaning/spraying my house usually does the trick.

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Answer 9

flea collar, flea killer

Answer 10

flea coller.

Answer 11

you have fleas in YOUR HOUSE?!

uuurm if your talking about how your cat got them then i dont think its necessary to scrub the house :/

the way we always do it is we get oitments from the vet/pet store to put on their necks

works like a charm!

Answer 12

clean yur house,  wash yur cat with fleas shampoo,  then give it a flea colar and thers no more fleas

Answer 13

Use frontline.  Try not letting your cat outside.  This helps.  The frontline goes in the skin and stops them from laying eggs.

Answer 14

Wash the cat and put on some flea/tick drops.  You can use flea/tick shampoo for a quick fix, but DON'T put drops on immediately after.  If you're putting on drops, use regular kitty shampoo.

I realize not all cats enjoy baths like mine does (she's a weird kitty, I know) but a bath really does help a great deal in washing fleas down the drain.

Take the cat and anything else alive out of the house for a few hours and set off bug bombs.

Air it out, vacuum well.

I don't recommend flea collars, flea powder is OK but a little messy, and liquids are annoying.  If you can wrangle your cat into a bath every week, you can keep up with the shampoo...but that's a little bit insane.  I wouldn't recommend it.

None of the natural remedies have ever worked on my kitty.  She's a tasty little morsel, and it's hard to keep her flea-free.  Sometimes I have to bathe her in between drop applications because they don't last a month.

Well, sometimes I have to bathe her because she loves taking dust baths and she gets filthy.

But that's my cat.

Anyway, use regular shampoo, let the cat dry and put on drops, or use flea/tick shampoo and wait a week.  Then remove yourself, the cat, any other pets (including fish) and bomb the place with flea bombs.