Author Topic: Fleas - where can they live?  (Read 1739 times)

Offline Gill (sneakiefeline)

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Re: Fleas - where can they live?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2008, 20:08:59 PM »
You are right Garfield and they can be there for years.

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Re: Fleas - where can they live?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2008, 18:20:00 PM »
i don't know how true this is but i was told that flea eggs can hibernate in dust, carpets, fibres (such as blankets and duvets) and will become active when they are disturbed.

mental note: must do some research as well! i'm Curious!  ;)
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Re: Fleas - where can they live?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2008, 17:27:40 PM »
True, that could be the case Ela. It just seems quite a coincidence that a pile of rubbish appears then literally days after so do some fleas.

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Re: Fleas - where can they live?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 13:48:37 PM »
Fleas like to live anywhere it is warm  old furniture, old mattresses, bedding, would be ideal. I would imagine there may be the odd warm place for the flea to hide. Then again it is just s likely that you could have brought a flea in, you could be just standing next to someone in a shop who has fleas in there house and they have passed one on to you and in turn you have passed it on to the little one.
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Fleas - where can they live?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2008, 10:47:54 AM »
Reason I'm asking is that our garden backs onto another row of houses gardens - which is usually a good thing. (Two whole streets worth of gardens to galavant in for my mob!) But the garden that backs onto ours has had a pile of rubbish on it for months now.  >:( Not only does it look unsightly when we look out the window upstairs it must be harbouring all sorts of horrible heebie jeebies!

There's old furniture, old mattresses, bedding, and according to my partner bin bags full of household rubbish.  :sick: I'm wondering if the few fleas that I found on Little Junkie recently are from him wandering about on this particular garden. (The house and cats have been flead since the discovery of fleas, by the way!)
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