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 Carpet
cleaning for fleas
Cleaning your carpet to get rid of fleas
Anyone with pets knows the importance of
keeping a house free of fleas, and anyone who knows fleas knows that
this battle is won or lost in the carpets. Flea collars and baths are
well and good for protecting your pets, but they do not get rid of the
fleas themselves. Fleas as a population are particularly hard to get rid
of. They are known as some of the most effective breeders in the animal
kingdom. (500 to 700 eggs in a lifetime, which can be as little as a
week and a half) They also can adapt easily to new environments. The
fleas you see and think of as fleas account for less then a quarter of
the actual number of fleas. Eggs and larval fleas make up the rest.
These pests have some nasty little habits. For instance, a small
breeding population can make it’s home in your home and go beneath
notice for a couple weeks. The way fleas breed, one day there are 200,
and the next there are 2000 or even more then that. Before you know it,
you have a serious infestation seemingly out of nowhere. Aside from
being unsanitary and annoying, fleas can carry serious health risks.
They may carry diseases or someone in your family could be allergic to
fleas.
There are ways to see how bad an infestation you have. The simplest way
is to notice how many fleas you see on a daily basis and in which
carpets in your home they have made their homes. There are also flea
traps (usually little more than a light bulb over sticky paper) that
attract and kill fleas. These should not be, however, used to stop an
infestation, as they may kill, at most, 1 in 20 fleas wandering about
that room.
There are ways to get rid of them, aside from bombing or spraying,
which, though effective, leaves dead fleas all over your house. One
method utilizes ultra-high frequency sound that is above the human
hearing range, as well as most animals’ hearing ranges. Though we can’t
hear a thing, the fleas are pummeled with a constant high frequency
which they cannot take and will soon flee the house.
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