Thinking about making a Flea Circus

It Is A Big Industrial One That Cleaning Contractors Use,

I Replaced The Motor About 4 Years Ago And That Cost Me

An Arm And A Leg, I Really Don't Think It's Worth Fixing

Again Because I Don't Think I Could Ever Get The Vile

Smell Out Of It....

A Floor Model Dyson Is Around $1000-00, But My House

Is Small And Rather Than Drag The Dyson Around And

Bounce It Off Everything I Think I'll Go For A Back

Carried One Again....

The Cost Is Bad Enough But What Really Annoyed Me

Was After It Was All Over I Could Swear I Could Hear

Sarah Laughing....



Cheers Glen.

 

It was more of a giggle

 

I want to know how 2 fleas got from her house to your house.

Sorry about your vac.....bummer.

 

OK - this is a great thread.

I HATE fleas, but LOVE to talk about them...for I have some to much experience with them, and trying to rid my home and animals of them.

Once (in anoher life in another place) rented the upper floor of this old house...I had a solid white cat - had one blue eye and one amber eye...anyway...No rugs of any type and Charlie had NO FLEAS. In a few weeks we were both eaten up by damn fleas with Charlie spending all his time in front of a window fan with lots of fleas - DESPITE having a collar...back then that was what you had. Got the place sprayed by the landlord and it NEVER worked, really (had to have the cat boarded for this)...and to make this particular long story short, wound up moving because of this.

In this life, here and now...downstairs, the flooring is CEMENT ONLY. :sunny:Any rugs we once had, have long since been put up...there is clothing, yes, but I have honestly NEVER once seen a flea jump from a piece of clothing down there. There came a time...several years ago, where there were just all these huge fleas that Live In/On the Cement Floor. I wound up "bombing" the downstairs twice within a 5 days period - and guess what...there were STILL a few

mothafocka fleas in the water/soap/light bowl - I put out as a test. Ha...fleas won

THEN. Those awful fleas had a resistance to any and relatively everything For A While...still to this day, I put out a wee trail of Sevin Dust around the entire perimeter down there, and NOW everything is okay. That being said...

No animal was even down there then...No any living, furry, or wanted thing was down there during this time!
Anyway, I bombed 1 or two more times and went down there as little as possible, and within an about 5 to 6 month period, we were and still are now (a few years later) - KNOCK ON WOOD - flea free down there, on the cement floor. I always wondered What In the Hell they found to subsist on with their big-for-flea invincible bodies!

The fleas that I am most certain enjoy this, our house's current carpet upstairs, are ALL jumping (LOL) directly into the water/soap/light bowl, which works so well, it

makes me a little sick to think

of the fleas that don't get into the bowl. :2thumbsup:

I feel your pain.

 

I learned of the soapy water light trick from a complete slob hoarder man. I set it up and within an hour or so there were lots-o-fleas stuck, they were probably thinking with their little flea minds on their death bed 'Why is surface tension no longer my friend?!'

I will probably just set it up again, except with a shallower dish.

Also the floors in my home are cement ... not on purpose though.
We have a massive (couple hundred gallon) marine aquarium, with an elaborate filter system that occasionally required filling with the outside hose. It has an automatic shut-off for the water supply after a while, but the power went out and reset it while we slept. So the hose ran all night, into the house and ruined the carpet. (This happened twice....)

There a partially relevant story for ya

I suppose flea treatment isn't top priority for spending in the home, (pretty much mortgage, electricity, and not a cent left over) so I'll have to see if I can coin a few pennies to get something.

 

Get Roaches, they eat flea larva. Not joking, i know roaches are "ew" but they eat the shit that can really make you sick. As long as you have fleas, don't stomp the random roach you see when you flick the light on. Just saying -,-

 

My father and I debate about the benefit of spiders regularly, he is of the opinion that I should not kill spiders because they kill the roaches. I say I'd rather have roaches than spiders, because they do not inhabit my shower or grow as large as my hand (I know Florida has nothing on Australia, but let me complain anyway)

So you support my cause to kill all the spiders (possibly with fire) then eh?
(not the banana spiders though, they are lovely)

 

I def agree with that notion though spiders can't really put a hamper on a roach population, would be like playing wak-a-mole with catholic rabbits. Though if you have roaches and are still seeing fleas, this could be a real serious infestation one beyond simple remedy measures. Good luck

 

We have no roaches, only spiders and fleas. I wish the spiders could just cut out the middle man of energy transfer and eat the damn fleas!

 

Haha, well at least you still have your humor and witt, usually the best ingredients for solving any problem

...and i agree spiders are just complicated. They could totally do something with our bear problem too.

 

Unless the problem was not being serious enough, then any attempt would come across as satirical and the problem starts all over again!

Luckily this isn't a problem in my life

Florida is full of scary animals, why can't I just harvest an alligator to attack these fleas?

 

I Never Kill Spiders, Even The Big Hairy Ones....

Spiders Are My Friends, They Live On Mozzies And Flys,

And Although The Windows And Doors Are Fully

Screened, Somehow The Occasional One Gets In Through The Cat Doors....

There Is Even A Daddy Long Legs That Lives In The Shower

As Soon As He Sees Me He Moves To Higher Ground,

Then I Turn The Water On....

Built This House 28 Years Ago, And I Have Never Seen

A Cocky.



Cheers Glen.

 

devastating!

I love webby spiders, and tiny jumping spiders, and daddio leg men, but fat hairy spiders can suck it. They frighten my girlish soul.
The rest of them stay in one spot, or are cute... but I do not want the ones that attack me in the bathroom.

 

Only if you see that as a problem. You can...

...dangit, i was gonna say something witty!

Just fish one out of the glades, no need to harvest. Though i doubt they'll attack on command, shoot they might even attack you...fuck RUN!

Yeah, fuck florida!

 

I could drive a mile to the nearest spring (I live in High Springs, after all) and find about 10 just chillin'. Hell, I could look in my neighbor's pool and one could be there. Goodness!

YEAH!!!!

 

And you're worried about the fleas tsk tsk. J/k

 

They are gentle creatures on the inside!
...


ignore that they have the frightening ability to lunge out of shallow water.

 

for some reason when I put dishsoap in some water in a bowl a whole bunch jumped in and that's how I discovered I had an infestation.