I'm fogging the house to get rid of fleas. Anyone know where I could spend three hours with my cats while I wait?

a pet friendly bar?

To bad you didn’t leave them at the vet until you were done.

I guess there are no relatives in the neigbourhood?
I don’t know about where you live, but here we have animal-pensions.
You could bring them there for one day.
Or, and this not may be a very nice thing to do, you could bring them to somebody who does haircuts/washing to dogs and cats (don’t know the English word for that).
You can pick them up after some hours.

@rebbel: Local groomers will give reluctant pets shampoos and baths.

Put them in individual carriers and load them in the car, drive to a nice shady park, and sit in the car with them and read a book.

@gailcalled That’s the word.
Thanks.

I’m sorry, but do you mean that the groomer is reluctant to give, or gives to reluctant pets?
Sincerely asking.

The cats are the reluctant ones. The groomers are being well paid for their time and trouble. Not so with the cats

:)

How about a pet friendly hotel? You could watch a few movies whilst your pets enjoy relaxing too !!

@rebell; Here are the two meanings;

Local reluctant groomers will go out of business soon.

All groomers, local or otherwise, find all cats reluctant about getting wet. Dogs are less reluctant.

We can’t really afford a pet hotel, and the vet has closed already, so I don’t know if they’ll do it (I don’t really want to leave my cats anyway).

My mom suggested that I do it at night when its cooler, and put the cats out on the screened in porch. Well, I know that would work well for the first 2 hours (and I can take my laptop out there and chillax with them), but for the last hour the house needs to ventilate, and I don’t think it’s going to be safe to be that close to it while its doing that.

I thought about driving them around for a while, but I know my oldest cat doesn’t really like to ride in cars.

go to a regular hotel and sneak them in.

better yet – read what i did-

i bombed my house, left the cats out overnight (it was in the summer) stayed in a hotel overnight to give the bombs a chance to really stay and be effective. came home the next day, and within two days i saw fleas again. it was very depressing. after spending money on bombs, powders, sprays, and flea dips for the cats i ended up buying a one year contract with an exterminating company, and got the cats Frontline or whatever that stuff is for their necks. i should have gone with the exterminator in the first place, because i wasted about $150 on the other stuff that did not work, including the bombs. trust me, fleas are really hard to get rid of. once i got the exterminator, i did not see one flea for about three and a half weeks, then the exterminator came back (thanks to the one year contract) and sprayed a second time, and i never saw a flea again. i did have the exterminator come back a third time just for good measure, as a precaution, and because i paid for the one year so i figured why not. the lesson i learned is from now on, during the hot months, put that fleas stuff on their necks and fleas won’‘t be a concern.

I’m unemployed, so we really can’t be spending money on a hotel to sneak them around in.

I got a private message from someone, and it made me question my decision, which was solely based on the vet’s recommendation.

I have read a lot of stories about how it doesn’t really work, and how it can be harmful to the cats even after its ventilated. I’m going to wait a few months, and keep them on Frontline (the one month we did use it, it made a huge difference) and vacuum lots.

If I do end up bombing it, I’ll see if the vet will take them for a bit. If not, we’ll hang out on the porch, and go to a drive-in movie while it ventilates. I knew I’d end up being the crazy cat lady… I just suggesting taking them to a movie.

Thanks everyone!

I don’t believe in bombing when my cats had fleas. I just bathed them weekly, caught the fleas by hand. I also filled a large plastic dinner plate with warm/hot soapy water and left it in the room where I knew was infested with fleas. It was the quarantine room where my cats were placed when we first moved into our new house but have since moved out.

The fleas were attracted by with hot/warm water and jumped into the dish. They sank as the soapy water broke surface tension. Everyday, I would change the water but not before counting how many drowned fleas there were. Finally stopped putting the dish in the room when there weren’t any drowned fleas for a few days.

My cats had weekly baths for at least 1.5 months. They were not happy but were at least flea free after all that.

And I vacuumed my house a lot too.

i had wall to wall carpeting at the time i had them. i had the carpeting ripped up in my daughter’s room, and then when i called the exterminator they told me that was unnecessary. after the exterminator came, i eventually had the rest of the carpeting ripped up, because i did not like the thought of the chemicals being in the carpet and the baby crawling around on it. perhaps the carpeting was why i had such trouble getting rid of the fleas. now i just have vinyl tile so hopefully if i ever did get fleas in the future it won’t be such an effort to get rid of them. when i had them, i had bites covering the bottom part of my legs. another thing i tried in the “did not work” department was covering the mattresses with plastic encasements. once the exterminator came, it was like a miracle. now it’s frontline all the way…..

Oh, for those suffering from the flea bites and having scratch marks, this is what I use to heal the wounds:

1 Vitamin E capsule (400 iu or 1000iu is fine)
3 tbs Nivea creme or any moisturisor you are currently using
3 tbs Aloe vera gel
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Mix the capsule contents with the creme and gel. Smear it on your wounds. Wear socks at night after you put the mixture on your legs. It took about 2 months for my itch marks to heal and disappear.