[Zeke]

I've had this issue. You go online and buy treatment for the house and the animal. You have to quarantine the animal during the house treatment (yard optional but rain will wash any treatment away). While the animal is separated from the house you treat them with a bath and whatever you choose. I have used the bite stuff and it's amazing to put them on a white sheet and watch.

Of course the fleas go through stages of development. The egg, the worm and the flea. The house treatment should kill the worm when it hatches. You should vacuum as thoroughly as you can prior but you'll never get them all.

Once the house is dried from the spray and the animal is flea free, you can let them loose. If they go outside or pick up fleas while being walked you must brush as well as you can before entering the house again. The treatment however, should work for the worms as they hatch for a few months. When you see you are losing the battle you rinse and repeat, usually 2wice during flea season (which is 12 months indoors).


I buy my stuff from a pro pest control in AZ. They are big so you can find them. There is a place in TX and GA that I have bought from when I didn't remember. Now I keep the bottles because these folks will have their own brands. Expect to pay towards $100 for everything. It really works done correctly so no need to hire a pest control just for fleas.

And forget diatomaceous earth and all that boric acid powder stuff. While they do work, they don't go the 100% you will get doing the spray and the direct animal treatment. Lastly, simply poisoning the animal repeatedly (after all, that is what it is) is not the way to attack the situation. Total house and possibly yard treatment is the only way.

Last note, occasionally have the animal rest on a white sheet and examine thereafter with a loupe and you will know the status of your environment immediately. Eggs are oval and semi sheen. Worms are very small, curved and almost black. Fleas won't stick around to be looked at but you might see a couple laggers. If you see one, there are many. What you want to see is dead worms. Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum and throw out the debris immediately in a sealed bag.

This is how it's done. YMMV.