AngelaVA
08-30-2010, 09:46 AM
I noticed this week that our cat had some fleas and I treated her but I guess it was too late because on Friday I found fleas in our downstairs family room carpet where the cat spends most of her time. I searched and found a thread on here and followed the advice but have a couple follow up questions.
The room I found them in has most of the kids toys in it so I put all those up and spread borax, waited 12 hours then vaccuumed. I've been vaccuming my whole house and my furniture every day since then. I haven't seen an fleas in the main level of my house but I've just been vaccuming up there too just incase. If I search really hard I can still find a flea in my downstairs carpet though. Should I just keep vaccuuming or is it time to try something else? Or do Borax again? I don't have an DE, have no idea how to get some without having it shipped from somewhere off the internet.
Also, my kids toys that were laying out on the carpet that got infested. One was a fuzzy Elmo chair, the cover is supposed to come off but the zipper is broken and it won't. The other is a box of dressup clothes which includes my DD's 2 dressup dresses which are really cheap polyester numbers with fairy wings I am fairly sure will fall apart in the wash. I tossed this stuff in an unfinished room off the main room right now but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it to make sure it doesn't have fleas or flea eggs in it.
Ugh I have out of town company coming in Friday too, I really want to have this taken care of by then.
Oh one more thing, how do I know if there are fleas in my yard? My cat is really old and on the rare occassion she does go out she doesn't go far so I'm curious if they are in my yard somewhere.
The room I found them in has most of the kids toys in it so I put all those up and spread borax, waited 12 hours then vaccuumed. I've been vaccuming my whole house and my furniture every day since then. I haven't seen an fleas in the main level of my house but I've just been vaccuming up there too just incase. If I search really hard I can still find a flea in my downstairs carpet though. Should I just keep vaccuuming or is it time to try something else? Or do Borax again? I don't have an DE, have no idea how to get some without having it shipped from somewhere off the internet.
Also, my kids toys that were laying out on the carpet that got infested. One was a fuzzy Elmo chair, the cover is supposed to come off but the zipper is broken and it won't. The other is a box of dressup clothes which includes my DD's 2 dressup dresses which are really cheap polyester numbers with fairy wings I am fairly sure will fall apart in the wash. I tossed this stuff in an unfinished room off the main room right now but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it to make sure it doesn't have fleas or flea eggs in it.
Ugh I have out of town company coming in Friday too, I really want to have this taken care of by then.
Oh one more thing, how do I know if there are fleas in my yard? My cat is really old and on the rare occassion she does go out she doesn't go far so I'm curious if they are in my yard somewhere.