FLEA HELP, PLEASE! NATURAL way to KILL THEM!?

[Gingergirlsmom]

Originally Posted by Jeanne_D

I live in south Florida, land of the fleas after years of dog owning I can tell you that Borax really works. buy a box of Borax. Vacum your carpet and then use a strainer or flour sifter to spread Borax dust all over your carpet. It usually forms in to large hardened rocks in the box so a sifter or screen type strainer will help spread the dust evenly. Then take a broom and sweep the dust into the carpets. The fleas should be gone in about 48 hours. Re dust in two weeks and then every month. Eventually you will only need to reapply every six months. My pest control person told me that when they "fan for fleas" with a sprayer they are using Borax mixed with water.

So, do you leave it on for 48 hours and do the yorkies have the run of the room???

[shecass]

The last time I bathed my two I found 2 fleas on Wyatt and none on Mollie but I still use the flea shampoo with oatmeal year round and put front line on them year round as well. If we get fleas in the house they feast on my husband and it just makes him miserable. We also have some chemicals downstairs that we will be putting on the yard before the next rain so it can get soaked into the ground very well.

If you start to have lots of them I would consider treating my yard. Just make sure you close the door and keep the dog in until it either dries or it rains and soaks it in the ground. We normally leave our dogs in for 2 - 4 hours depending on the weather conditions outside.

[Jeanne_D]

Ginger,
Once I use the broom to work the Borax around the base of the carpet fibers, I let my yorkie back into the room.
At one point, before someone told me about using Borax, despite the fact that I was treating my dog, yard and home with very expensive (and toxic) products which were sold to me by my Vet, plus I had monthly professional pest control (for $30/month!)my poor little baby was still crawling with fleas....crawling!!
I was at my wits end, we were having a very bad flea season (which we are having again this year) and then a woman that I work with, who has lived in south florida all her life, told me how to dust my carpets with Borax. With in 48 hours my family was flea free. And to this day I do not use any toxic chemicals to fight fleas. when I asked my exterminator why he didn't tell me about the borax, he said that is exactly what they use in their sprayers, just really watered down. HUUMMMPF!! EXTERMINATOR AND VET YOU ARE FIRED!!

My new vet says that, like the salt, borax dries out the flea eggs in the carpet and they dont hatch, once the adult fleas die the cycle is ended.

[chestermama]

I will put euculyptus bad spelling oil on chester and they hate that as well as anything with cedar in it, I hate seeing those little things on chester as well.