Went to a house with minor flea problem, should I worry?
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September 4th, 2009
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Saw no fleas there, but a friend who’s allergic and sometimes sleeps over with her bf there says they have a few. I sat on the couch, the normal stuff you do as a guest for a couple hours. Don’t want them in my house! On my cat! Should I strip and burn my clothes before going home?!
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“A few fleas” is an invalid definition. Two fleas and then the invasion in a short time. Female fleas, I am told, lay up to 20 eggs per day.
An ex-boyfriend of mine had fleas in the home, I found out by waking up with bite marks. They never transferred to my pets or home…but I’m not sure how that exactly works.
Here’s what you need to do:
When you come home from your friends house, you need to strip off all your clothes before entering the house.
You then need to clean yourself. This is usually best accomplished by running through the lawn sprinklers.
When you are arrested, fight off the cops. They will taze you, and that will kill most of the fleas. The rest will die when you are de-loused at County.
You don’t need to burn the clothes but def. put them thru a good hot wash cycle.
Your friend is delusional. There is no such thing as a minor flea problem.
If you find any fleas at all after thoroughly washing and vacuuming get three months worth of Frontline.
For every flea you see there ate 10 more you don’t.
Hopefully your cats are indoor only?
One hopes your friend doesn’t have opossums in the yard. Typhus is carried by fleas that have been on opossums. We get about 12 to 20 cases annually in our county.
Don’t mean to make you feel worse about the whole thing. No…wait! Maybe I do.
@soethe6: Call your friend today to check whether those few fleas (an incongruous juxtaposition of words BTW) have been fruitful and multiplied (or am I thinking of fruitflies),
@ Darwin: I almost ran over an opossum who was waddling across my dirt road. He was not doing a four-minute mile.
@gailcalled – They rarely do, but they must be doing something right since they have been around much longer than we have.
And they carry Typhus but they don’t get it.
@Darwin : My mistake; it was a woodchuck, also slow as molasses. Most of the opossums here are road kill, in spite of the low traffic stream
I give kudos to @filmfann for the most entertaining answer I’ve read all day!!
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