there is nothing you can do outside of flea spray and frontline or advantage
or other flea medication from your vet for your pet.  Fleas are notorious
for being hard to kill.  You can bath your cat to help, but the fleas are
living in your environment and there is nothing that will kill the eggs, so
you need something that will treat for several months.

Good luck.

Bingo.

OK, if you are unemployed, or on certain benefits you should be able to have
the cat seen and treated in either Blue Cross or PDSA (I think). I don;t
know where you live but you should be able to get the info either from their
websites or call them.

Treating the fleas is easy,  not hugely expensive either, but time consuming
and requires lots of washing.

Flea treatment for cats - monthly ~?10 for a top range Frontline
Flea treatment for carpet - good one from the vets -do not waste money on
stuff from Tesco ~?7-10

I had to do it couple of years ago. You must wash ALL the clothes and
bedding, on the higher temperature the better, as fleas can jump wherever
they feel like, and lay eggs which can survive a long time. You  MUST Spray
the caprpets as per instructions. Hoover carpet, you should have then carpet
protected for about a year with one spray can. Keep putting the frontline on
your kitty once a month.

Gee

My sympathies.  Fleas isn't fun.

Problem with fleas is that they are like cockroaches.  They don't die
except with patience and knowhow.

OK, I guess they're *un*like cockroaches, which just don't die. =^_^=

This is my suggestion then.  Get yourself some Bayer Advantage, dose the
cat for about 3-4 months.  Keep dosing him for a few months and wait for
the fleas to die.  After a fashion, they will not come back.

Pretty much, but hindsight is 20/20.  If the cat keeps going out, you'll
have to keep dosing him with advantage, of course.

Avon Skin-So-Soft is a remarkably good insect repellant.  Also use aloe
vera on the bite marks.

Yeah, but the water has to be hot as hell.

Hi Asfand,
 What flea treatment have you used? It might be worth going to the
vet, they can supply you with
spot- on treatment that you put on once a month and a spray called
Acclaim , that you use on carpets and  soft furnishings. The Acclaim
only has to be done once a year and kills all the eggs the fleas lay.
I think dry cleaning the duvets would kill the fleas and eggs.
The chemist  would advise you what cream to use for fleas but any
cream for insect bites would help.
Also, if your cat goes outside he needs to be innoculated against cat
diseases and also wormed. If you can't afford a vet , the local PDSA,
RSPCA or Blue Cross might be able to help .
Alison

things.

One inexpensive aid to ridding your home of fleas is to construct a "flea
trap"  All you need is a night light for an electrical outlet located low
down on the wall by a baseboard and a cake or pie pan or other shallow pan.
Fill the pan with water and add a few squirts of dish soap mixing it up
thouroughly but without making suds.  When you get ready to go to bed, place
the pan on the floor below the nightlight and turn the light on.  In the
darkness, the fleas will jump towards the light, land in the water, and
because the soap breaks the surface tension that would otherwise support
them on top of the water, they will sink and drown.  It's pretty frightening
how many you can get up in the morning and see at the bottom!  For
households with curious cats (isnt' that all of them?) putting a pie tin
inside of a just slightly larger shallow pan can help keep you cat from
turning it over and spilling the water.

This doesn't work by itself.  You have to combine approaches. You MUST treat
your cat for fleas using Frontline or one of the other veterinary available
flea products.  Don't waste your money and time and risk your cat's health
by using an over the counter flea preventative on your cat.  You must also
treat the home environment, and that involves a lot of vacuuming.  Vacuum
every day, and don't forget the soft furnishings like the sofa and the
drapes and the mattresses.  Throw away the used vacuum bags every day and
don't let them sit in the closet. I do not know what home insecticide
treatments are available in the UK, but you want to purchase one (a fogger,
perhaps) with an insect growth regulator.  Be sure to follow the directions
of any chemical you may buy, and remove the cat's food and water bowls as
well as any people food that might come into contact with the chemical.

You CAN rid your home of fleas, but it's not a quick process.  And, once you
do so, you must be very vigilant about a reinfestation.  The usual source is
an animal that is allowed to go in and out, or a new animal that's infested
already.  If you wish to continue to allow your cat outdoor access, it's
imperative that he receive the Frontline monthly and you continue to
practice a lot of vacuuming and throw away the bags.  It's a lot easier on
you and the cat if you just restrict his access to indoors only though.

frontline cost me 30.00 per cat for a 3 month supply. It was well worth that
price to. It worked the magic. You can bathe them and everything and the
medicine stays on them bc it goes into there bloodstream and keeps being
produced from there sweat or something for a month. All your cats have to do
is walk around like they usually do and the fleas are attracted to them. Got
rid of our fleas great!

I don't recommend flea collars and drops etc because some have been known to
cause cats to have toxic reactions such as seizures.  The best that we have
used is a product called "Flea-Busters".  It may not be available there but
you may be able to get it from your vet or over the internet.  Basically it
is composed of boric acid and baking soda.  The boric acid is the main
active ingredient.  The baking soda is basically used to help disperse the
boric acid in a larger area with less concentration of the boric acid.
These chemicals (both powdered) are cheap and easily obtained.  Sprinkle the
mixture over your carpets and upholstery and brush them in.  This will last
about a year.  If you shampoo the areas, reapply after the area has dried.
Do not apply while the cat is in the room, don't want them to inhale the
dust.  It is supposed to be safe, but why take chances.  After brushing in
the mixture if is completely safe for animals and people.  It is also
odorless and safe for fabrics.  I have also heard that diatomatious earth is
also useful.  The particles of boric acid or diotomatious earth get under
the scales or platelets of the adult flea and hold them open so that the
flea dehydrates and dies.  Sprinkle the gardens and yard with the
diotomatious earth to kill the outside fleas and other garden pests.
Until they are gone, spray yourself with mosquito repellant.  Vacuum often,
and remove the bag from the house immediately.