i’m so stressed and worried because the house has a flea problem. ever since Jake passed away we’ve had a flea infestation going on in both bedrooms. i guess since Jakes gone the fleas have no hosts to live off of. oh but you’d be wrong to say that because i found a fucking flea on my guinea pig. ohhh but according to the vet i took Bitsy in to get checked out after Mitzy died said guinea pigs don’t get fleas and when i was skeptical she tried to ~prove me wrong~ by giving me some fucking story about some guy and his kids and fleas. she told me that dog fleas don’t get on guinea pigs. that’s obviously incorrect. i have 10 flea bites on me as we speak. i’ve washed the sheets and sprayed the mattress with non toxic/natural safe for pet flea killer and thoroughly cleaned the room today. yet still there was a flea on the bed that i captured and put down the sink. i’m freaking out idk what to do. idk what to do about my guinea pigs having the fleas. i want to take them to the vet but if she’s gonna insist they don’t get fleas and blah blah what then? my bf is gonna call the vet in the morning and say we have a guinea pig that has fleas, is there something we can buy from the drs that will treat them. but will she just tell me it’s not fleas? like?? i’d say take her to Jakes vet but they suck just as much. they told us that a flea collar worked the exact same/even better than medicine. 80$ later and he is still having a flea problem. months later we take him back to same vet but see a diff dr and he said he was infested with them and the flea collar doesn’t work ???????? the first bitch didn’t even write down the flea collar in her notes so this other dr guy didn’t know about it. so all that time he was still suffering cuz she didn’t give us correct info. so what am i supposed to do?
i read online that fleas don’t usually stay on guinea pigs for very long because they can’t breed on them. they prefer dogs and cats, not rodents. so the fleas don’t breed on guinea pigs but they can cause serious skin issues that will kill a guinea pig. i believe that is what happened to Mitzy because Jake was infested with the fleas at that time and that’s why i took in my other guinea pig Bitsy to make sure it wasn’t fleas from Jake on her too. but i didn’t know and Mitzy died from the allergy from the fleas. that is my honest guess what happened. the dr didn’t ever really give me any straight answer about why Mitzy died so that’s all i can do is guess. but that’s why i need the fleas treated off Poppy so she’s safe from dermatitis.
so I am going to buy bug bombs. i’m going to move the hamster and guinea pig cage into our bedroom and then bug bomb the room next door while my brother and mom are seeing John Wick. that’ll give it enough time for the fogger to kill the fleas and should be about enough time for safety to go back into the room. then on Friday i’m going to bomb our bedroom. my bf is gonna call his exterminator friend or whoever he was talking about to me earlier he knows and have him spray the front yard (where Jake got the fleas) and the porch where and Dabs hangs out daily. so that will take care of the problem hopefully. i mean it should… but the topic of my worry is my guinea pig and what to do. i hate this. we picked her up today to try and find that flea i saw and couldn’t. but i found black flecks. flea particles in her fur. i just hope the stupid vet makes this simple and just writes me a script that kills these parasites. no going in, just picking up the medicine and we treat it. god.
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