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Steam Clean or Bomb First?

 
 
View Profile Chai
 
Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 05:17 am
My kids (feline-strictly indoor) got infested with fleas as a result of ones brought in from the great outdoors, via a cat that hangs around our front portch.

Last night we soaked them up to their necks in water to drown the fleas, then shampooed them. They are feeling much better thanks. Today we'll spray some frontline on them.

Anyway, I want to steam clean the carpet, and bomb

Which first?

My thinking is to steam clean to first take up eggs and fleas, then bomb to kill the rest.

Mr. Tea says bomb to kill them, then steam clean to suck them up.

My thinking is that will just take off the insecticide which would protect the carpet from getting reinfested for awhile.


What are your thoughts?
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 05:27 am
bomb then clean, then put cats in burlap bag and take to river....
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 05:33 am
yeah, I was looking at some sites, and realized I was wrong...

bomb, then clean...

no mention of burlap bag though.
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 05:34 am
Bomb the cats hanging at the front door.
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 05:57 am
Cats flip over backwards and land on their feet when you shoot them with a .22. It's kinda cool.
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 06:10 am
GW has a good idea.

Get 2 or 3 extra frontline applications and put them on flea bag.

That way, you dont go through all this to only open your door to more fleas.
( tell b the same thing)
She let flea bags close to her door.... actually I think he was almost IN when I was there...
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 06:18 am
Chai wrote:
Mr. Tea says bomb to kill them, then steam clean to suck them up.


You don't call him Wally? Mr. Tea seems a little formal.
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 06:53 am
gustavratzenhofer wrote:
Chai wrote:
Mr. Tea says bomb to kill them, then steam clean to suck them up.


You don't call him Wally? Mr. Tea seems a little formal.



He's a very formal gentleman.

Oh yeah, the front door cat Rolling Eyes

We've applied the neck drop frontline stuff to her already.

Don't tell Wally (looking around) but I'm not crazy about having that cat around.

She showed up, as cats are wont to do, one day, and has just never left. At first we were thinking of capturing her and taking her to the shelter, but before you knew it, the man was feeding, encouraging her hanging around, and all that.

My husband will freely admit if he won the lottery he would just collect cats all day.

She has been regulated to the far side of the porch, but, there's only so much you can do with her besides frontline on her neck.

Fortunatley, she's gone all day (Mr. Tea worries about what she's doing) and she's pretty much only around to eat and stare Shocked
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Reply Fri 25 May, 2007 07:39 am
I knew there was a reason I liked Mr Tea.


When I had my first 'house' - a onebedroom'ish style studio apt-

Bedroom-ish meaning there was a wall seperation where the bed would go so that you didnt have to stare at it all day...

I had

(drumroll)
13 cats. Smile

9 of them I got from the local shelter, and the rest just wandered into my always open door.
I dumped over 1000.00 into having them fixed, cleaned, medicated.. you name it.

and I LOVED it.

All but 2 were pretty much indoor cats.

3 litter boxes though. (bleuch) I would have to empty them every night.
But I got cheap ass litter and just dumped them into the dumpster at the back of the house so it wasnt SOOO bad.

but, i was happy. I loved it.
I love cats.

hate them doggie creatures though..
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 09:23 am
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the man was feeding, encouraging her hanging around, and all that.


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My husband will freely admit if he won the lottery he would just collect cats all day.


(Makes note of this, in case I'm ever in Austin)
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Reply Mon 28 May, 2007 09:26 am
A preemptive carpet bombing strike is in order. I'm talking Shock and Awe, here. This will send a message to cats that harbor fleas, that freedom will always prevail against evildoers.
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