Comments on: Home Remedies for Fleas

By: becky

becky — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:34:21 +0000

this has by far been the worst we have ever had fleas!! we have 3 indoor cats. i tried the vinegar last year and it worked tried it 2 days ago in 6 white plates overnight. it didn’t do much but smell up the house. i am now so happy to hear about the salt solution. i will most def. try it tomorrow morning. does it also work on wooden floors? i will put it under/ in all my furniture,bed,and cat box closet. hopefully this works!!! i will let everyone know in a few days how this works… also will the salt kill my grass if i sprinkle it outside???

By: Joan Dainty

Joan Dainty — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:05:04 +0000

I have small to medium size bowls with warm water a drop of dish soap on the floor by a plug outlet. Put a night light with no cover on it. The fleas are attracted to it and fall into the soapy water a they drown themselves.

By: Reagan

Reagan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:19:17 +0000

Please help me!!! I found out my dog had fleas a few days ago after a bath, and now I’m finding them all over my house, and my 2 small children (and they are prob. on me too… GROSS!!!). I’m not too worried about getting them off me and the boys but how do I get rid of the ones on the carpet. I vacumm constantly because my youngest is 9 months and crawling evrywhere so I need something that will be safe for him to crawl on and won’t just get sucked up when I vaccum? Would eucalyptus, peppermint, or lavendar oils mixed with water actually work? Please help my boys, we are miserable!!

By: Amanda Coates

Amanda Coates — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:07:58 +0000

I have 2 small chihauhaus both of whom have highly sensitive skin. My husband and I teamed up on each dog one at a time and we put apple cider vinegar (straight) in a spray bottle and sprayed them generously and worked it into their coates. we let that sit for about 5 min. Then we put them in the sink with warm water and about 1/4 cup of the vinegar. rinsed them and washed them (according to the directions) with a good flea and tick shampoo. After we dried them we then gave them a finishing spray with the same vinegar. The fleas that were still alive (barely) were trying to go everywhere but on the dogs!!!

By: Alisha

Alisha — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:53:46 +0000

!When I adopted my dog Brandie she was very pregnant. She was so infested with fleas I tried everything. The local groomer had told me about capstar its a pill that’s safe for pregnant animals. Her fleas were gone in two hours! No one you do have to treat again if they come back. Her babies had flea eggs on them and I bathed them in blue dawn and it killed the fleas they had also. I am going to try some other things on here for the home. Luckily I don’t have an issue with fleas anywhere else that I noticed but it never hurts to safer than sorry
Thanks so much for the advice!

By: donna

donna — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:30:20 +0000

I have tried the apple cider vineger does not work my dog is scrathing so bad he keeps me awake at night. I am going to try the lemon spray. I am willing to try any thing. I feel sorry for him. I have tried flea spray and don’t last very long. I don’t like using harsh chemicals on my pets. Also what is the mixture for salt and borax. Donna

By: sadie

sadie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:56:06 +0000

i’ve been feeding a really nice stray/abandoned cat, and i want him to be able to come into my apt. but he has fleas. i fixed him up a warm bed outside, but want to get him de-flea’d right away so he can begin to be inside for the cold weather. i have questions:

how much cider vinegar should i put in my cat’s drinking water to repel fleas, and will he like the taste of it? does the smell and taste go away after the water sits for a bit? hope someone can help with this. i’m already giving him the brewers yeast in his food, which he loves.

going to try the lemon water spray on him next. will report how that works.

thanks for this site! i really want to avoid poisons if at all possible, and i am on a really low income, so can’t afford advantage and all that expensive stuff.

sadie

By: Michel - Michigan

Michel - Michigan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:46:58 +0000

O.k., I was up to here in fleas. Now this is very strange. I have some of that linen spray from the dollar store and I spray my sheets and pillow cases because it helps me to sleep. The other night, the fleas were biting me to death so I sprayed my sheets and pillow cases and decided to let them bite because there wasn’t any thing I could do, but at least I could try to get some sleep. Well, I slept all through the night and when I woke up in the morning, I found dead fleas on the sheet! So, I sprayed the entire house with that stuff and didn’t get my feet bitten at all. I used all sorts of scents, so apparently it doesn’t matter. There is just something in it that kills fleas! It’s been nearly 2 days and no bites! I’m going to spray every night and vacuum every day for a couple of weeks just to be sure I got all the nits and eggs, but it’s cheaper than the flea spray and not as toxic. And, I don’t have to worry about my bird, Perkins, getting the fumes either! Spray close to the floor, about 8 inches or so away and don’t spray on food or yourself or the pet. So, if you have fleas in your carpet or bed, try that. I got it at The Dollar Tree and it’s called Linen Spray or Poupourri Spritz, both seem to work and it doesn’t take all that much. The bottles are only about 7 ounces and I did the whole house with 3/4 of a bottle.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:31:12 +0000

Because I have been so busy I just noticed within the past week that my Daschund is infested with fleas.I feel so guilty b/c I didnt realize how bad it has gotten.There are even spots of blood all over the bed he sleeps on where the fleas are pratically aare bitil are uel lfcwith school I is infested!just itly because real

By: Angie and minimoo

Angie and minimoo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:38:22 +0000

WOW! THIS SERIOUSLY WORKS! i tried the lemon and it did NOTING! BUT i used baby oil and then dawn on my little minimoo and the fleas just died. first i put on the baby oil and coated her in it. all except her face then ran a warm (but not too warm) bath and washed out the oil with dawn dish detergent and the dead flees just kept going down the drain. it took a few washes to get the rest of the oil out but it worked! the using a flea comb just comb the dead ones (and what evere live ones left) out. the only fleas that were a live after it all were on her face poor thing but they were easy to spot and pick out.

thanks for the tips everyone!