Anonymous asked 9 years ago
First off, thank you so much for this site, and the great detailed information. I’ve been looking all over and doing so much reading on fleas, I know more than I ever wanted to about them! It’s been a bit confusing as I get have found contradicting information on the web.
Our cat became infested with fleas, and unfortunately I didn’t realize she had them until she had been showing symptoms for quite a long time so our house has a pretty bad infestation. We treated the cat and have been doing the spraying, washing vacuuming routine to start trying to clear out the fleas. We have 3 young boys (2 1 year old twins) and have re-homed our cat to someone willing to treat her and give her more attention than we were able to. It has been about a month since our cat has left the house and we have continued vacuuming, washing, cleaning procedures, however we are still seeing live fleas consistently, and I and my boys have flea bites all over! I am feeling so discouraged.
Is it true that since we have removed the cat host, and the bedding that they can’t continue to reproduce, even if they are getting human blood from all of the bites we are witnessing? It is currently a cold winter in Wisconsin, so no worries about bringing them in from outside right now. We have moved our floor rugs and couch pillows to our garage in hope that the winter weather will aide us in killing off some immature fleas as well.
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel here? Thank you so much for your help.
