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How To Treat Your House For Fleas. Spray this peppermint and clove-based spray around potential trouble areas in your home and on your pooch to prevent fleas from calling your house home in the first place. You can also try sprinkling salt over your carpets and leaving it for a week to kill fleas that are hiding in the carpet fibers. Wash all bedding. The best way to kill fleas is to trap them and kill them.
Reviewers note that you can smell the cloves. Next youll need a flea treatment for your home because the little buggers like to live and reproduce in cozy hidden-away spots like carpeting around pet beds and under furniture explains Steve Weinberg DVM CEO and medical director of 911 VETS in Los Angeles. These are chemicals eg methoprene and pyriproxyfen that prevent fleas from reproducing. Give the flea preventative on the same day that you treat your house and yard for fleas for maximum effectiveness. Add one cap full of dishwashing liquid in the bowl and stir well. Shampoo or steam the carpet to remove any flea.
Dont forget to do the same to your pets bed.
Then sprinkle the powder on your furniture carpets pet bedding and window sills. Get under beds and any other furniture that you werent able to move. How to get rid of fleas in the carpet. Usually an infestation occurs because of a pet. Wash all bedding. Use corner attachments for baseboards heat vents floor cracks carpet edges and room corners.