I am dirt poor except for my 3 kitties, Nala, Rajah, and Berlioz. We just got Berlioz 3 days ago and now all 3 of my babies have fleas. All 3 are indoor cats. Nala is the oldest, she's over a year old, but the other 2 are about 4 months. Please help. I don't know what to do for them.
By Lyndsay
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Apparently, if you bathe them really well with Dawn dish soap, it will kill the fleas. Also if you sprinkle naptha flakes, which are crushed moth balls, on all your floors, let it sit a couple of hours and then vacuum really well, this will get rid of the fleas.
You have to remove the kitties from the house while the naptha flakes are around as they are really BAD for them! You'll probably have to do both these things every few days until the fleas are gone, and don't get the soap inside their ears or in their eyes. But make sure you get the soap on the inside edges of the ears. Start at the head and work towards the tail. Google "fleas" and "home remedies".
Good luck.
Hi - there are lots of answers on Thrifty about flea treatment for cats. Just look it up in the search window - there are plenty of suggestions.
Sprinkle boric acid powder around carpets etc. This works well for roaches also.
It is less toxic to sprinkle salt around the carpet. I think some people get boric acid mixed up with borax. I would not use boric acid on the carpet nor even borax but I do sprinkle salt around when I see fleas.
As far as flea control on the animal, I use Lufnuron. It interrupts the coating of the fleas outer shell. The adults will live but they will be unable to reproduce. The main problem with fleas is that they reproduce so fast.
Here is what I use and I have been very happy with it. I have a number of cats also. According to dose you have to open the capsules up and mix it with a small amount of soft food. I mix mine with a small amount of water and give it with a syringe minus the needle, orally. It is chicken flavored or some other flavor the cats actually like.
There used to be a place you could buy a large topical flea spot treatment and a glass vial came with it and you could buy one and use it among your cats.
I will send this customer review that describes what to do.
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As far as a Dawn bath goes:
If you can bathe your cats that is great. If not I could go over them with a flea comb or small tooth comb to get the fleas out.
Put the fleas in a container of water so they will drown. Vacuum everyday. Cover the hose of your vacuum so they don't crawl out. If you have a bag with your vacuum then put a flea collar in it.
Most importantly improve their diets. When you go to feed them, feed them a food that is not cheap. You can find them at farm supply stores. Use food that does not have grain or by products.
I like to add a little squirt of olive oil to my cats wet food at night and I add a few egg yolks a couple of squirts of baby vitamins, and homemade chicken broth. I mix it all up and it makes the food go further.
The food that is a little more expensive is worth it, as far as your cats go, because the cheap food pretty much causes illness, and yeast problems, and attracts fleas like crazy. That is because of all the grain, wheat, corn and soy. The pet food industry uses corn to fill their product, and also wheat. Both of them are grains. Not good for your cats at all.
There are many foods on the market that don't have wheat, corn or soy. Any of these would be great.
I like to go the Tractor Supply myself to get the best selection of foods.
Here is one last overall link and a recipe for flea spray you can make at home:
www.wikihow.com/
Blessings to you and your cats!
PS Make sure you don't get Advantage which is good for cats and dogs mixed up with Advantix which is deadly for cats...review the above link for further details.
Once you improve their diets, then it will take a while but their overall health will be better.
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Hello, diatomaceous earth is a powder that u can spread around your house and also rub on your cats. It will kill anything with an exoskeleton, like fleas and ticks, spiders, ants etc.. make sure u read the label, it should say food grade or food safe. It is not harmful to mammals, ive even read that u can add small amounts to their food to take care of parasites. Google search diatomaceous earth to see all the uses, its great stuff!
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