fleas every where cats every where help

[sue currin]

I have a friend that is 72 and she lives alone in a small cabin with no running water. She has about 20 cats living in her yard that she feeds. I just went over last week and put in a wood stove for her, It was too dark at night to fit the piping together inside her house, so I did it by my truck lights in her yard. I was eaten up with fleas. I know that she has put down some sevendust but they are still very bad. She lives in NC. I was wondering if there was a way to get some help with the cat problem there. She does not have money that's why I gave her a stove and installed it. Some people dropped off the moma cat and babys that have grown to 20 some. Or is there away to get rid of the fleas. You can't pet the cats, only about 2 kittens will let you touch them. The few she could catch, she has gotten fixed...given the kittens to good homes...the ones that are wild are multiplying

[Paranoid]

might ask her to call the aspca(?) or some other animal organization.

The other step might be to stop feeding them.

live traps with catnip in them?


I'm assuming you want to take the route that doesn't include poison tho.

[comfortablynumb]

here kitty kitty... BANG.


wild cats are a danger to kids widlife and farm fowl. Kill them.

if you can pick em up... well then they are pets.. help them.

youllhave to dust the cats... or if you can grab them just toss them in a tub of flea dip, and dust her floors with boric acid or sevin10 dust.

get rid of those wild cats.

[Shepherd]

You're positive you're not dealing with chiggers, rather than fleas?

And yes, she needs to call someone - Animal Rescue League or something, to trap the cats; she can keep the ones she's had fixed. But the others will multiply so rapidly she'll be innundated. I love cats and we get a lot of them dumped out here too. We have ours fixed and I stopped leaving the cat food out at night so the wild ones quit coming around.

Does she have fleas in her house? I was told sprinkling salt on the carpeting kills them. But the cats need treatment. There's a newer one out that you squirt a little tiny tube of liquid down along their spine which controls the fleas and ticks, but it only lasts a few months at a time and needs reapplied.

There may be something that could be sprayed all around the lawn where the problem is, but I don't know if it'd be harmful to the animals.

[Wolf mom]

????72 and living alone????No lights?????No heat??????

I think something else needs to be done other that addressing the cat removal.

Cats need to be removed by calling Animal Control in your area immediately.

If she's got that many cats, and can't/won't control them, maybe she's got some sort of obsessive disorder manifesting itself that way. I can't think of the name of it. There's articles in the news every so often about "little old ladies" and their collection of cats and/or junk.

There but for the grace of God (and my caring children) go I.......

[ChickenHound]

Originally Posted by Wolf mom

If she's got that many cats, and can't/won't control them, maybe she's got some sort of obsessive disorder manifesting itself that way. I can't think of the name of it. There's articles in the news every so often about "little old ladies" and their collection of cats and/or junk.

It's called hoarding. People can "hoard" all sorts of things, but when they hoard animals, we hear about it on the news.