Sheelagh  you don't have flea bombs in the local grocery store.

They bomb or saturate a surrounding area with poisons.  I use the type
called foggers  even thought my cats are treated with advantage when they
need it.  Being in Florida you get fleas and they get into your house no
matter who is there.  The sand is just a big old breeding ground for them.

I know OP said you have to bomb the whole house. In my experience fleas go
where the blood is  so the main rooms you or the cats use is where the
problems are at.  I use the fogger which are by Harts  the deep smoke
penetration one.  I put a towel in front of the door and set two off in a
room if I ever have a problems  which is about once or twice In the summer.
Than I come in and vacuum and clean thoroughly.  Clean all the linen  ect..
The cats are not allowed in the room for at least 24 hours  like they want
to be near a vacuum anyways ;-).  In about 10 days you need to do it again
due to eggs and larva but I usually don't have too.

This probably won't work for you since you have outdoors cats  but.  I have
found if you use a euclpatysis(???)  leaves ground up into the soil around
your house and property it helps to control them.  I have to retreat my
house again soon I had a flea problem this month.

On 24 Aug, 16:28, "cindys" <cste...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

I have never heard of flea bombs before. Can anyone give me more
information on where you would get one from, a good brand name, & also
the action it takes & whether you have to move out or not whilst they
are active?
You can get the local council to do the job of exterminating over
here, but it is fairly expensive. Having said that, it is fully
effective, so therefore worth the money if you have a problem. Be
warned, you need to  have a clear a floor space as possible before
they arrive.
the cost? around £80 ($160)
Sheelagh>"o"<

Sheelagh  you don't have flea bombs in the local grocery store.

They bomb or saturate a surrounding area with poisons.  I use the type
called foggers  even thought my cats are treated with advantage when they
need it.  Being in Florida you get fleas and they get into your house no
matter who is there.  The sand is just a big old breeding ground for them.

I know OP said you have to bomb the whole house. In my experience fleas go
where the blood is  so the main rooms you or the cats use is where the
problems are at.  I use the fogger which are by Harts  the deep smoke
penetration one.  I put a towel in front of the door and set two off in a
room if I ever have a problems  which is about once or twice In the summer.
Than I come in and vacuum and clean thoroughly.  Clean all the linen  ect..
The cats are not allowed in the room for at least 24 hours  like they want
to be near a vacuum anyways ;-).  In about 10 days you need to do it again
due to eggs and larva but I usually don't have too.

This probably won't work for you since you have outdoors cats  but.  I have
found if you use a euclpatysis(???)  leaves ground up into the soil around
your house and property it helps to control them.  I have to retreat my
house again soon I had a flea problem this month.

On 24 Aug, 16:28, "cindys" <cste...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

I have never heard of flea bombs before. Can anyone give me more
information on where you would get one from, a good brand name, & also
the action it takes & whether you have to move out or not whilst they
are active?
You can get the local council to do the job of exterminating over
here, but it is fairly expensive. Having said that, it is fully
effective, so therefore worth the money if you have a problem. Be
warned, you need to  have a clear a floor space as possible before
they arrive.
the cost? around £80 ($160)
Sheelagh>"o"<

On 24 Aug, 16:28, "cindys" <cste...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

I have never heard of flea bombs before. Can anyone give me more
information on where you would get one from, a good brand name, & also
the action it takes & whether you have to move out or not whilst they
are active?
You can get the local council to do the job of exterminating over
here, but it is fairly expensive. Having said that, it is fully
effective, so therefore worth the money if you have a problem. Be
warned, you need to  have a clear a floor space as possible before
they arrive.
the cost? around £80 ($160)
Sheelagh>"o"<

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As Matthew said, they are more commonly called "foggers." I think "flea
bombs" may be an antiquated expression or perhaps it was a different item
sold in the past that has been replaced with foggers. The "fogger" is an
aerosal can filled with insecticide. Basically, you get everyone out of the
house (humans and animals), activate the fogger by pushing the button down
on the top of the can and leave the house and don't come back for 24 hours
(or whatever the can says). It fogs in a straight line but not around
corners. So, if your hallway opens directly into your living room in a
straight path, you can set off one fogger in the hallway and catch both the
hallway and the living room, but if your bedroom is around the corner, you
are going to need a separate can. Overall, you generally need one for each
room you want to treat. I don't remember how much they cost since I haven't
bought one in years, but I'm going to guess that they cost at least $10 per
can. You can buy them in three-packs or twelve-packs at a discount. They are
sold at places like PetCo and other pet supply shops. You can also order
them online. Here is a description of how they work:

http://www.doityourself.com/stry/fleacontrol3

The reason I said you need to treat the whole house is because of my
experience in the apartment building. Our entire apartment was treated every
six weeks but we couldn't get rid of the fleas because they were in the
building. The landlord told us the only way to get rid of them was if all 12
apartments in the building were exterminated simultaneously. He said that
all of the tenants would have to agree to that. The majority did not have
cats and insisted that they didn't have a flea problem. They didn't
understand that those little red marks on their ankles were flea bites (if
you have fleas and no animals, the fleas will bite the people). Some of the
families had children and didn't want any insecticide in their apartments
when they supposedly didn't have cats or fleas. They just didn't get it.
Finally, I told the landlord that he would have to tell the families that
they didn't have a choice and that if he didn't exerminate the entire
building, I was going to phone the Board of Health and report him. So, he
finally agreed to exterminate the common hallways. It didn't work. As I
said, the only way we got rid of the fleas was to buy a house and move out
of the building.

But at any rate, that was in the days before Revolution and Advantage. At
that time, the only way to treat the cat was to give him or her a flea bath
or flea "dip" (which was done at the vet and essentially involved giving the
cat a bath in insecticide). The baths and dips only killed the fleas that
were on the cat at the moment. There was no residual effect. Within a day
after Alex and Molly returned from having dips at the vet (and after I had
fogged/bombed the apartment in their absence), they were covered with live
fleas.

Now that we have products like Revolution and Advantage, there theoretically
should not be any need to fog at all. If you treat the cats, you get rid of
the problem because you've essentially destroyed the fleas source of food
(cat blood). Any fleas who bite the cats die, so the flea life cycle is
broken. You won't get rid of the fleas in a day because new ones hatch, but
eventually you will (in theory anyway). If the cats go outside, any flea
that jumps on them and bites them won't live long enough to reproduce (even
if the cat brings the flea in the house).

That having been said, when Amanda was our pregnant foster cat, she arrived
with fleas. I could not treat her with Revolution because she was pregnant,
and I could not treat the kittens after they were born either. They have to
be at least two months old. Amanda and her kittens stayed in our finished
basement. Fortunately, we did not track any fleas into the rest of the
house. The kitchen is off the basement, and it has a linoleum floor, so that
was a big flea stopper since the fleas like to hide in carpeting. Once the
kittens were old enough, all the cats were treated. Then the kittens were
returned to the shelter to be placed in permanent homes (all were adopted

one of the "upstairs cats" I hired a professional exterminator for the
basement. In theory, that shouldn't have been necessary (and our vet said
that it wasn't) but after the experience in the apartment 10 years before, I
was not taking any chances.
Best regards,
---Cindy S.

The hardest part is moving the furniture out of the room. You pretty
much need to do that for it to be effective. And it
is not an instant solution. It's a decrease in the number of fleas,
you just have to be diligent with vacuuming, over,
and over and over, and hoping the ones that hop under the furniture
get zapped by the chemicals there.  You've treated
the cats, and one day you just noticed there are NO more fleas. Yay.
I also bought flea traps, but honestly they
probably helped *some*, but not that much. Probably ideally there's
some kind of safer type of life-cycle spray that could be used
after you've done all the initial work, to keep the remaining fleas
from reproducing that would help.

Sherry

OMG! I think I would just burn everything I owned and move.

Rhonda  :)