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| How do you get rid of fleas in your carpet? No pets in the house, have fogged three times with different things and dusted the floor with Damascus Earth twice. I have also put bowls with Dawn dish soap and light close to it down three or four times. All dogs are on monthly Comfortis. I am at the end of my rope and if these fleas do not leave I am going to pull up all carpet and just have sub floor as I can not afford hardwood or any thing else at this point.
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 Lived to tell about it and will never do it again
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| Knock Out Area Spray ES. We sold that at the vet clinic that I worked at and it is the best stuff out there IMO. They also make a bomb that is just as good. My son had a bad flea problem and had tried all the other bombs. I finally got him to use the knock out and it got rid of all of them. The good thing about it is that it prevents the eggs from hatching. |
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  Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | thankfully never had a issue with fleas but others have posted you have to bomb it then rebomb it 2 or 3 weeks later because the eggs hatch.. id pull up carpet lol |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Have you vacuumed? You have to vacuum like twice or more a day for three weeks to get through the entire life cycle and get most of them. |
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 Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | I'd rip up the carpet and throw it away... or burn it and have a nice little bonfire. |
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 Warrior Mom
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| Borax ... sprinkle on carpet .. then vacuum |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | oija - 2017-04-27 8:59 PM Have you vacuumed? You have to vacuum like twice or more a day for three weeks to get through the entire life cycle and get most of them.
I agree.....an exterminator told me too..
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| We had this issue in college.
We tried everything. Sprays, bombs, borax, etc etc etc.
Ended up buying a carpet shampooer and shampooing with near boiling water and shampoo each day or every other day. At first it was gross the number of fleas we saw in the dirty water.
The heat will kill the adults and larvee (I think) but not the eggs and can make them hatch faster, which is why you need to keep doing it until you aren't seeing anymore, and then probably keep it up for another week. |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | It's also a good idea to spread D.E. IN YOUR LAWN TO KILL HEAVY POPULATED FLEA LAWNS.DO YOU HAVE SANDY SOIL? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | jake16 - 2017-04-28 8:25 AM It's also a good idea to spread D.E. IN YOUR LAWN TO KILL HEAVY POPULATED FLEA LAWNS.DO YOU HAVE SANDY SOIL?
This what Jake said ^^^^ Fleas gets on your pants, shoes and you carry them into the house, so taking care of the yard at the same time will be a big step in getting rid of fleas in the house. I had this problem at my hay barn the fleas were horrible and you could see them on your clothes once I got the flea problem under control at my barn then the problem in my house got easier to fix, but remember you can bring in the fleas into the house your self. |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| Vaccuum, vaccuum, vaccuum. We used Adam's flea and tick home spray as well on the couches and carpets. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | We had an exterminator tell us to vaccume twice a day after every treatment and twice a day until the next treatment. He said to take the trash out to the dumpster that we dumped the vaccum dust out in every time we emptied the vaccum. We had three treatments to make sure we got everything.
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | I feel so lucky. We live in sandy soil and seldom find fleas or ticks on our dogs. Only occasionally a tick on our horses.
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| I have shampooed the carpet as well as vacuumed it several times but not twice a day. I am going to do that for a couple of weeks. Thanks for all the advice. |
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Location: Texas | Apply "insect Growth Regulator (IGR) or product that contains IGR.
Precor is the IGR that I use, and there are a number of carpet flea treatments that have IGR in them, meaning they kill all stages of the flea life cycle. I use Adams Plus Flea and Tick Carpet spray. It works great! I buy it at the feed store. I have also bought just the Precor at the feed store.
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | Do you have any cats? Are they on flea preventative?
You need to vacuum, and vacuum a lot. Fleas lay their eggs on the animals and then the eggs fall off of them onto anywhere where the dogs spend time.. so on the floor, on dog beds, in your bed, etc.. That is where most of the flea burden comes from.
Because of that you also need to wash their bedding and your bedding.
Dawn probably isn't doing much for the fleas.
Are you also bathing the dogs regularly? You can use a flea shampoo for that.
I would also ask your vet if its ok if you give sentinel in addition to your flea meds. The comfortis is good because it kills fleas, but the sentinel is essentially a flea birth control that will mess up the eggs and they won't be able to hatch. I don't like using sentinel by itself because it doesn't stop fleas from biting and doesn't kill them, but it helps get rid of the flea population in and around your house.
And as far as pulling up the carpet, fleas can survive in hardwood laminate, etc.. too. They go down into the cracks between the wood. |
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Location: Texas! | Put a flea collar in your vacuum bag or filter and vacuum the house the eggs will hatch and collar will kill the eggs. My vet recommends this to our clients as the only good use for a flea collar ?? |
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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | May the force be with you!! I rescued a dang kitten that brought fleas into my house. I went nuts. I moved back down the road with my mom and dad for three weeks and only went in my house to spray the carpets with Adams flea spray and vacuum every day!! Yet another reason I HATE carpet!!! I look like a monkey constantly check my dogs! They are on a flea pill, but we live in sand heaven and I'm paranoid. |
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| How would you like to do something so simple you will think
it is stupid??
PLAIN OLD TABLE SALT ..
Shake all over you house like you were going to eat the carpet
or tiles ... garage, front/back porches .... the trail you walk to
the barn and the alleyway in the barn ..
Vacuum house in three days very thoroughly ...
In 10 days salt everything again per the above for the hatched eggs ...
salt will generally dry them up but don't take a chance ..
in 3 days vacuum house ...
No more fleas!!
Note: if you live in a mobile home or pre-constructed that has insulation
battings under your floor .... get some ice cream salt (easier to throw)
and throw it up under the house ... this may be where their "den" is ... lol
THIS DOES WORK AND VERY QUICKLY !!
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