Remember when I was stuck living in a motel for five months? With other people bringing their pets in and out, our indoor only cats got fleas very badly so this is what we did to get rid of them. 

First... order the following from Amazon. 



Next: Follow the directions on the package. This shit seriously works and I don't question it. It will start to work within 30 minutes and it doesn't hurt the cat. 

After that is done, bathe your cat thoroughly. We successfully bathed 5 cats in under 30 minutes using a tag-team system. Leave the cat in the bathroom with food, water and litter while you attack everything else. She will be okay. Mad, yes, but also okay. 

Then: gather up all your linens and clothes. If you think the fleas are only on your bed, you are mistaken. The eggs can lay dormant for up to 7 months and will finally hatch when the temperatures are just right. You need to be aggressive here. Put all of your linens, curtains, bed clothes, clothes you wear, towels - everything - in large plastic trash bags and haul that shit to the laundry mat. 

Before you go, sprinkle a nice dose of diatomaceous earth. Fleas have an exoskeleton shell that will kill them if it dries out. what DE does is cut the crap out of this shell, killing all stages of fleas. It also helps dry out any larva or eggs that might be hiding in places where your vacuum cleaner misses. You can pick up DE at any Tractor Supply store. A 25 pound bag should cost less than $20. You might want to invest in a cheap wire strainer to evenly distribute the DE in each room. While your bed linens are off, you can sprinkle DE on your bed as well. Let all of it sit for a day, if you can. If not - then at least wait three hours before vacuuming or while your at the laundry mat.

A word of caution: Use some respirator masks when vacuuming this stuff up. Your house will get very cloudy from all of the dust being kicked up and you'll have to vacuum a number of times to get all of the DE up. 

Wash all of it on the hottest setting allowed for your stuff. Throw out those bags - do NOT reuse them. Bring clean unfolded bags with you to put your clean stuff back into. 
Dry everything on the hottest setting your stuff can tolerate. Take it all home, leave it in the car until you are completely finished with your flea removal. 

Next - after you have vacuumed up your carpets, baseboards, furniture, mattresses, non-carpeted areas and washed all of your laundry, you need to shave your cat from the neck down. If she is seriously infested with fleas and you are still having an issue after the Capguard treatment, this is your only other course of action that you can safely take. Don't worry - her fur will grow back. I've shaved Vader every spring even though we don't have fleas anymore. He's a long haired cat with arthritis and his hind legs can get matted a bit so I keep him clipped in the summer. It also helps keep him cooler since he's a black cat. He's used to the clippers now and just lays there while I shave him. 

And this is basically what you have to do. It takes a total of 6 to 7 hours of your time and is much more cost effective than hiring the Orkin man to come and tell you that he has to bomb your place or make several visits. 

We knocked out our flea problem literally in one day and we had five cats to treat.

Cats in general are weird.

(October 8, 2018 at 10:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Cats in general are weird.

Indeed. It's nice that other people can take them, because if it were up to me, I wouldn't care if they existed. I'm deathly allergic.

(October 8, 2018 at 11:03 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(October 8, 2018 at 10:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Cats in general are weird.

Indeed. It's nice that other people can take them, because if it were up to me, I wouldn't care if they existed. I'm deathly allergic.

Then don't eat them! It's real easy; if your allergic to cats then DON'T EAT THEM--DUH!

(October 8, 2018 at 10:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Cats in general are weird.

Indeed. One of the things I have always found ironic is the philosopher's deep question, "Why am I here?" My cats can answer that question without any effort at all: I'm here to serve them. No mystery at all. Silly humans.

I wish I could give you a brand and model number but Google, "Quiet cat shears." I did that and found an electric shears that is so quiet, even cats don't notice them. I have a long-hair kitty that we have to trim regularly. There are very quiet shears on the market that work well.

That sounds like a normal cat to me.


It nothing compared to the brain damaged, one eyed hairball my SO brought when she moved in.

I confined it to the kitchen by putting up a heavy screen door. It' s a white, longhaired neutered male, that sheds hair like the patients in the onocology wing at a research hospital.

This weird assed cat's favorite thing is sticking his head into shoes and pushing them around the kitchen. Not a clue why. His favorite toy is a 12 gauge shotgun shell which he will bat around at 3 a.m. it always ends up under the refrigerator. He likes to sit under the toilet when you' re taking a dump.

The thing lives to nap.

If you take it outside - it will sink all it' s claws into you - refusing to let go - and vibrates.

Fuckin' weirdassed animal.

(October 9, 2018 at 2:18 am)AFTT47 Wrote:

(October 8, 2018 at 10:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Cats in general are weird.

Indeed. One of the things I have always found ironic is the philosopher's deep question, "Why am I here?" My cats can answer that question without any effort at all: I'm here to serve them. No mystery at all. Silly humans.

I wish I could give you a brand and model number but Google, "Quiet cat shears." I did that and found an electric shears that is so quiet, even cats don't notice them. I have a long-hair kitty that we have to trim regularly. There are very quiet shears on the market that work well.

I shaved a highly combative Persian with regular electric clippers. I conditioned him to the noise over a period of a month and shaved him in increasingly larger patches over two weeks. Just running the clipper over him without trying to cut anything was, I found, effective in the conditioning phase.

And he didn't know he looked damn CUTE in a lion cut.

(October 8, 2018 at 9:56 pm)Joods Wrote: Remember when I was stuck living in a motel for five months? With other people bringing their pets in and out, our indoor only cats got fleas very badly so this is what we did to get rid of them. 

First... order the following from Amazon. 



Next: Follow the directions on the package. This shit seriously works and I don't question it. It will start to work within 30 minutes and it doesn't hurt the cat. 

After that is done, bathe your cat thoroughly. We successfully bathed 5 cats in under 30 minutes using a tag-team system. Leave the cat in the bathroom with food, water and litter while you attack everything else. She will be okay. Mad, yes, but also okay. 

Then: gather up all your linens and clothes. If you think the fleas are only on your bed, you are mistaken. The eggs can lay dormant for up to 7 months and will finally hatch when the temperatures are just right. You need to be aggressive here. Put all of your linens, curtains, bed clothes, clothes you wear, towels - everything - in large plastic trash bags and haul that shit to the laundry mat. 

Before you go, sprinkle a nice dose of diatomaceous earth. Fleas have an exoskeleton shell that will kill them if it dries out. what DE does is cut the crap out of this shell, killing all stages of fleas. It also helps dry out any larva or eggs that might be hiding in places where your vacuum cleaner misses. You can pick up DE at any Tractor Supply store. A 25 pound bag should cost less than $20. You might want to invest in a cheap wire strainer to evenly distribute the DE in each room. While your bed linens are off, you can sprinkle DE on your bed as well. Let all of it sit for a day, if you can. If not - then at least wait three hours before vacuuming or while your at the laundry mat.

A word of caution: Use some respirator masks when vacuuming this stuff up. Your house will get very cloudy from all of the dust being kicked up and you'll have to vacuum a number of times to get all of the DE up. 

Wash all of it on the hottest setting allowed for your stuff. Throw out those bags - do NOT reuse them. Bring clean unfolded bags with you to put your clean stuff back into. 
Dry everything on the hottest setting your stuff can tolerate. Take it all home, leave it in the car until you are completely finished with your flea removal. 

Next - after you have vacuumed up your carpets, baseboards, furniture, mattresses, non-carpeted areas and washed all of your laundry, you need to shave your cat from the neck down. If she is seriously infested with fleas and you are still having an issue after the Capguard treatment, this is your only other course of action that you can safely take. Don't worry - her fur will grow back. I've shaved Vader every spring even though we don't have fleas anymore. He's a long haired cat with arthritis and his hind legs can get matted a bit so I keep him clipped in the summer. It also helps keep him cooler since he's a black cat. He's used to the clippers now and just lays there while I shave him. 

And this is basically what you have to do. It takes a total of 6 to 7 hours of your time and is much more cost effective than hiring the Orkin man to come and tell you that he has to bomb your place or make several visits. 

We knocked out our flea problem literally in one day and we had five cats to treat.

that stuff works great. It has no residual though, so you would have to give it every single day. It's better to use one that lasts a whole month, unless you are prepared to ever miss a day. You can get a daily chew now, though. lots of people are using it. Baths are almost always unnecessary, especially for cats.