After Mr. Ruggles got fleas, we occasionally said, “I wonder if the reason Sherlock loves to have his back scratched is that he has fleas.” But did we check? Noooooo. Finally the other night I was sitting there scratching him, again, and I thought to look. Sure enough. Fleas. For a long time, judging from how long he has been scratching.
So it begins. Bedding in the washer now. Then vacuum, scrub and spray the bedroom and close it up. Then lock him on the porch and vacuum, scrub and spray the living room and dining room and kitchen and bathroom. Then I think I will give him his bath. Then we have to keep him off the porch until we clean that, so I guess he’ll have to sleep somewhere different tonight, because I know I won’t get it all done today. So, tomorrow will be the porch and his pet bedding that he sleeps on out there.
The only good thing about it all (other than the fact that the house can always use a good cleaning) is the knowledge that, even if I’d discovered them a couple months ago, I would have had to do the same cleaning. You either have them in your house or you don’t. No middle ground.
So, I’m off to clean….
Haha! Your “Nooooooooo” makes me laugh. I can just hear it in my head just like you’re saying it. That’s a bummer about having to clean everything… But like you said, you’ll have a nice clean house soon! 🙂
Poor Sherlock and poor Nana! So sorry you have to deal with the work of getting rid of those buggers. Hopefully, they will stay away!
One good thing is that Sherlock is unbelievable soft after his bath. I just can’t get enough of petting him. It’s like the really soft blanket on the bed that you just love to stroke. Unfortunately, when Dad was clipping his toenails, (Sherlock’s, that is), he cut too close and made his toenail bleed. And if there is one thing that bleeds profusely and doesn’t scab over very well, it is a toenail. So he keeps bleeding on my floor. But the floor is pretty sticky anyway from the flea spray. I can’t wait until it has been down long enough to scrub everything. In the past, we just set off a “bomb” and that killed everything. For some reason I thought it would be easier to spray. But it isn’t, because the spray is sticky, so I’ll have to clean again in a few days to get the sticky off the floors everywhere. But I’m going to wait until we are sure we have them killed everywhere they could have been hiding. We’ve been doing a lot of laundry!