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What is the best way to get rid of fleas on cats?
Would you be willing to get a new cat?
No! I need to treat the current one.
Is a hairless cat an option?
No, I don’t have a hairless cat. She has long, luxurious fur.
I meant, would you willing to shave the cat? It makes it easier to find and remove fleas.
Try something else.
Flea collars on you and the cat dissuade fleas. And you should wash everything the fleas may
be in to kill them.
Someone told me to get a new pet bed.
That only helps if you do it while the pet is getting a flea dip, because the fleas could
go from the pet to the bed the moment you get a new one.
I heard you could bug bomb the house for fleas.
There are bug bombs that do that, but they don’t reach the base of the carpet fibers
where fleas like to hide. It is better to spray with methoprene everywhere your cat
likes to rest and hide to kill the fleas.
I hate the smell of chemicals like that.
It’s OK, because you’ll have to vacuum everything to get rid of the fleas. You need
to vacuum everywhere you and the pets have been, even your bed if the fleas have been
biting you.
Then they could live inside of the vacuum cleaner, ready to escape when I empty it.
It isn’t like they can feed on dust bunnies. But you can put broken up mothballs in the
vacuum to kill them, or put a flea collar in it.
I might as well put a flea collar on the vacuum while I’m at it. Then we’ll all match.
Vacuuming regularly sucks up fleas, but the larva can live months without biting you.
They’re like little vampires, darn near immortal.
Uh, fleas are blood sucking pests, so they are vampires. You can dust the house with
borate acid to kill flea larva.
Pity I can’t kill them with sunlight.
They aren’t killed by sunlight, but dust the cold dark corners because that is where
they hide.
Like vampires.
But these vampires are never going to be pretty, well, pretty annoying.