Jeeze I hate fleas, the first and last infestation we had in our house was in 2000 and it took over 8 months to get rid of. My family sprays our yard with a spray specificly for fleas and ticks every year, and we normally dust or spray the entire house including the furniture with a pet safe spray twice a year when we deep clean... it's been so many years since I've seen a single flea that things have gotten lax and it's been 9-10 months since the last house spraying which is good for 6 months.
Can someone who has fleas in their house, and on their cat bring the fleas over to someone else's house on their clothes or whatever and introduce fleas/cause an infestation? I haven't actually seen a flea yet and there is no flea dirt or fleas on any of the dogs I looked very very carefully this evening but my pet rats are itchy with no signs of clear infestation, the dogs seem itchier than normal, and I don't know if I'm just being paranoid but I keep feeling *something* on my feet. It would make sense that my friend with teh flea problem(which he's treating) would have infested my room since that's where we hang out, or that I would have brought fleas home on my clothes and they would be most prevalant in my room where I toss my laundry...
Help! What are emergency flea eradication/prevention measures I can take? I've got pet rats as I said and one is healing from surgery and can't take stress, so any chems that are smelly or toxic are definitely out but if there are fleas I want them dead and gone - yesterday. Thanks.