[Tinkerbell2004]

I have tried everything to get rid of the fleas in our house. Everything from the typical vet prescribed medicines to simple house hold remedies && extermination. Please my animals are being chewed alive && I feel horrible about it.

[shazamataz]

What have you tried so far... be specific...

What brand /type of treatment did you put on your animals?

What have you done to rid the fleas in your house?

[Catsmine]

Did your exterminator explain the need for constant intensive vacuuming until the flea life cycle is broken? Did they mention the need to dust mop any wood floors with flea powder?

Did they explain the need to keep the lawn mowed as short as possible?

Did they schedule a follow-up treatment after 14-21 days?

Or did you mean "picked up a bomb from the store" when you said "exterminating?"

[Tinkerbell2004]

For the medications I have tried Frontline Plus, K9 Advantix, Bio Spot, Advantage, && Sergeants Gold Flea && Tick (which nearly ended up killing my yorkie && left me with a hefty emergency vet bill). As for home remedies I have done the dawn soap && water with a nightlight above it, epson salts on the carpeting, cloves... && I can't even remember what else, anything I could find that people were swearing by.

As for the extermination, I have yet been able to convince my parents of getting an actual exterminator into the house, but I've done the flea bombs && the spray. Both things picked up from my local veterinarian. After we did both of those we had all the bedding washed in the house, && thoroughly cleaned the wood floors.

[Catsmine]

Okay,

I'm afraid you have a lot of work ahead of you. Read this stickie for the reasons

https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/pest-c...pt-386490.html

But what you need to do is

1. Get the animals on a program for flea control, be that bathing, spot on products, sprays, dusts, whatever. They have to STAY on it.

2. Evacuate the house for an afternoon (4 hours). As you leave, apply a flea control product with both an insecticide and a growth regulator in it.

3. Immediately vacuum the house on your return. Make certain fleas cannot survive in the vacuum bag, either by changing it or sucking some flea powder into it.

4. Here's the trick you've been missing: vacuum the house EVERY DAY for 2 - 3 weeks. I mean the WHOLE house, under the beds, under the pet's beds, everywhere.

5. Wood floors, tile, and linoleum need to have a flea powder treatment, sprinkle flea powder on the floor and make sure it's completely covered by spreading it with a dry dust mop.

6. The lawns need to be kept as short as possible so the natural predators outside have a better chance to kill as many larvae as possible.


I said it would be a lot of work, but consistency pays off.

[Tinkerbell2004]

Thanks for the advice, I'll have to get my parents to help do it all. Thankfully there isn't too much carpeting left in the house to vacuum.