Cat got out few days ago, came back with a handful of fleas. Nothing infestation level, we gave her a flea bath and picked about a dozen of them off her.
We didn't realize she had fleas until the next day though. My roommate's having a fit because she's convinced now the house is gonna be infested with fleas.
I can't really find much googling, anyone know how likely this is? Less than 24 hours in the house with 10-20 fleas? I think she's overreacting personally, I would think they would have stuck mostly to the host (my cat) and not really branched out away from their food source, and with the flea bath we killed basically all of them. I know one did jump ship before we got her in the tub, but I can't imagine 1 flea's gonna infest the whole house. Probably just gonna end up back on the cat and I'll pick that one flea off her next time.
Buy flea bombs
>>18638115
I don't really want to have to vacate the whole damn house over nothing though. We'd have to find boarding for all the pets, and then the 3 of us. Be a monumental waste of cash if I'm right and we have no infestation because 12 ish hours isn't enough time to do any real damage.
>>18638139
Their eggs stick to everything. One flea is enough to start another infestation.