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silyjillie · 05-17-2008, 02:01 AM

I'm about to cry! I just got back from a horrible vacation. Meeko had diarrhea the whole week and I get home and my roommate and I had to evict our other roommate. She's has a ton of problems, keeps getting fired from jobs and can't make rent. My other roommate and I are out over $700 rite now because of her.

Then I find out my roommates pets (dog and 2 cats) are infested with fleas. Uh HELLO!!! Why didn't you tell me when I first got home so I could have kept my dog away!!!! She starts telling how Monroe is always scratching and sometimes cries for no reason. Mind you that she messaged while I was gone and said Monroe had a few fleas and I told her about the Dawn bath. She said that she gave her a bath and combed her with a flea comb and she doesn't see anything. Soo I rolled Monroe on her back and I see about 50 fleas. Shes a 6lb Chi/Maltese mix. I was like, this isn't a few fleas , this is an infestion. I grabbed my flea comb and starts combing threw and found thousands of fleas. I told her bf to run to Publix and get some borax and she told me to shave her dog. Her dog has the worst hair of the 2 breeds. It's hard and wirey. Soo I got out my chipper and used the shortest attachment. It made it soo much easier to see the fleas on her back. So I combed threw her and killed as many as I could and then told her to put some more Dawn on her and let her sit in the tub. She sprinkle the borax in her room and the living room. I gave her my backup capstar and Monore was fine. She actually looks cuter with the short hair but shakes soo much!

So all this time I was forced to lock Meeko up in my room, hoping he wouldn't get a ton of fleas. I go in my room to check him and of course he has them. Soo I combed threw him and killed maybe 20. Grabbed the borax and used the rest in my room. She vaccummed her carpet and the living room within 10 mins and I left it it my room for an hour. He was fine.

I went in to check on Monroe and she didn't have any new fleas but her 2 cats were a whole other story. The past 2 months she's let Napolean room around outside and he just comes back when he's hungry. I know, how stupid! Even knowing there's a few strays hanging around our building. Well he was full of flea as well as Scarlet. It was too late to her more capstars, so we went to bed. This morning she went out and bought the capstar, gave it to the cats and then Monroe had fleas again. UGH!

We combed threw her all night and then gave her another capstar. So I go in my room and find another 20 on Meeko. Luckily she bought the capstars and I could give him one. So I let him sleep and check him 4 hours later. I find about 30 LIVE fleas running all over him. Shouldn't they be dead by now? Is this pill not working? Do I need to give it more time?

So with evicting my roommate, I'm taking over her room since it's a lot bigger. Well this girl really sucks and won't give us the money she owes. My roommate and I called the cops to see what we could do. We decided boxing up her things, she doesn't have a lot of things. We call her and tell her we did this and she has 24 to get her stuff because our new roommate is coming in the afternoon. I go in there to vaccumm and I think this is where he got all those fleas? Maybe they were breeding in her room. And I poured some more borax powder down and gonna leave it on all night. This way when I go to move my stuff in tomorrow it's already down for 24 hours. I hope this works. I don't know what else to do.

I told my roommate that Napolean has to be an indoor cat because I can't do this again. She doesn't think he brought in the fleas because dogs go out everyday and don't catch fleas. We both have our pets on Frontline plus. I also have Meeko on senitel for heartworms. I dont know what else to do. She doesn't want to bomb the house, which I kinda don't want to either, unless it's our last option. We're going to put more powered down tomorrow and leave it on for 24 hours.

Why did capstar work on her pets so fast and isn't doing anything for Meeko! Am I being too impacient. By now it's been on for 5 hours and they are still ALIVE! I'm sorry this was so long, I'm just so stressed rite now. I hate seeing him scratching! I can't believe my roommate waited so long to help her pets. She didn't even think it an infestion. Monroe definitely had more than 300 fleas on her. Who knows how many on the cats. I do feel a little better getting it off of my chest tho.

05-17-2008, 02:01 AM	#1
silyjillie YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Delray Beach, FL Posts: 1,060	About to cry...long, venting I'm about to cry! I just got back from a horrible vacation. Meeko had diarrhea the whole week and I get home and my roommate and I had to evict our other roommate. She's has a ton of problems, keeps getting fired from jobs and can't make rent. My other roommate and I are out over $700 rite now because of her. Then I find out my roommates pets (dog and 2 cats) are infested with fleas. Uh HELLO!!! Why didn't you tell me when I first got home so I could have kept my dog away!!!! She starts telling how Monroe is always scratching and sometimes cries for no reason. Mind you that she messaged while I was gone and said Monroe had a few fleas and I told her about the Dawn bath. She said that she gave her a bath and combed her with a flea comb and she doesn't see anything. Soo I rolled Monroe on her back and I see about 50 fleas. Shes a 6lb Chi/Maltese mix. I was like, this isn't a few fleas , this is an infestion. I grabbed my flea comb and starts combing threw and found thousands of fleas. I told her bf to run to Publix and get some borax and she told me to shave her dog. Her dog has the worst hair of the 2 breeds. It's hard and wirey. Soo I got out my chipper and used the shortest attachment. It made it soo much easier to see the fleas on her back. So I combed threw her and killed as many as I could and then told her to put some more Dawn on her and let her sit in the tub. She sprinkle the borax in her room and the living room. I gave her my backup capstar and Monore was fine. She actually looks cuter with the short hair but shakes soo much! So all this time I was forced to lock Meeko up in my room, hoping he wouldn't get a ton of fleas. I go in my room to check him and of course he has them. Soo I combed threw him and killed maybe 20. Grabbed the borax and used the rest in my room. She vaccummed her carpet and the living room within 10 mins and I left it it my room for an hour. He was fine. I went in to check on Monroe and she didn't have any new fleas but her 2 cats were a whole other story. The past 2 months she's let Napolean room around outside and he just comes back when he's hungry. I know, how stupid! Even knowing there's a few strays hanging around our building. Well he was full of flea as well as Scarlet. It was too late to her more capstars, so we went to bed. This morning she went out and bought the capstar, gave it to the cats and then Monroe had fleas again. UGH! We combed threw her all night and then gave her another capstar. So I go in my room and find another 20 on Meeko. Luckily she bought the capstars and I could give him one. So I let him sleep and check him 4 hours later. I find about 30 LIVE fleas running all over him. Shouldn't they be dead by now? Is this pill not working? Do I need to give it more time? So with evicting my roommate, I'm taking over her room since it's a lot bigger. Well this girl really sucks and won't give us the money she owes. My roommate and I called the cops to see what we could do. We decided boxing up her things, she doesn't have a lot of things. We call her and tell her we did this and she has 24 to get her stuff because our new roommate is coming in the afternoon. I go in there to vaccumm and I think this is where he got all those fleas? Maybe they were breeding in her room. And I poured some more borax powder down and gonna leave it on all night. This way when I go to move my stuff in tomorrow it's already down for 24 hours. I hope this works. I don't know what else to do. I told my roommate that Napolean has to be an indoor cat because I can't do this again. She doesn't think he brought in the fleas because dogs go out everyday and don't catch fleas. We both have our pets on Frontline plus. I also have Meeko on senitel for heartworms. I dont know what else to do. She doesn't want to bomb the house, which I kinda don't want to either, unless it's our last option. We're going to put more powered down tomorrow and leave it on for 24 hours. Why did capstar work on her pets so fast and isn't doing anything for Meeko! Am I being too impacient. By now it's been on for 5 hours and they are still ALIVE! I'm sorry this was so long, I'm just so stressed rite now. I hate seeing him scratching! I can't believe my roommate waited so long to help her pets. She didn't even think it an infestion. Monroe definitely had more than 300 fleas on her. Who knows how many on the cats. I do feel a little better getting it off of my chest tho. __________________ Jill, Meeko's Mom Last edited by silyjillie; 05-17-2008 at 02:04 AM.