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Some years back I posted a message here about this subject. I 
can't get to it now cause my news server only goes so far back in 
time.

So here is the good news at last! Table salt. As available and as 
cheap as it is, as effective it certainly also is! :)

But my floor is hard everywhere in the house, I don't know how 
effective it would be on carpeted floors. Somebody out there 
should try it.

My entire house always begins to get full of fleas when last cold 
month has passed. I do not use any of the commercially available 
flea killers. Over the counter as well as vet prescribed ones. 
Years back I tried them, all made me and my cats very sick. Also, 
cats should not be bathed, it hurts them more than it helps them. 
So flea shampoo is out of the question, plus never solves the 
flea problem.

So this time, when flea season began and got to its highest gear, 
I took my table salt shaker and splashed salt on all floors, all 
desks, all counters, top of microwave ovens, top of refrigerator 
and freezer, all appliances, all over my bed and on all cat beds 
and cat litter boxes, on my chairs and sofa, and on anything that 
has a more or less horizontal surface to it. And over anywhere in 
the house that my cats ever go. My salt shaker holds 7 ounces of 
salt, and I emptied it two times, so a bit more than a pound 
covered all areas.

Then, as before, I continued using flea comb on my cats daily to 
at least catch and drown some of them directly from the cats, 
using a more fine comb that comes with good quality lice 
treatment for humans. Usual combs catch only some of the largest 
ones. The lice comb catches some of mid-sized ones as well. But 
combing never catches enough fleas to even make the cats 
comfortable enough.

Then about two weeks after, I noticed floor fleas have reduced in 
number. Cats who only would run fast on the floor before letting 
too many fleas jump on them, now just walked on the floor! But 
still would not sit or sleep there.

Two more weeks after that cats began sitting and resting on the 
floors :-)

Now I can hardly see any of my cats scratching themselves. There 
are still a few fleas on them that flea combing cannot catch, but 
they don't interfere into their lives and sleep and general 
comfort during their sleep and waking hours.

Very effective indeed.

But a few notes to make sure:

- I happened to be using Himalayan salt when I decided to try 
salt. I don't know for sure whether it was the salt itself or the 
extra stuff in Himalayan salt that did it (stuff that gives a 
pink color to it). So to be sure, use Himalayan salt instead of 
regular salt. It is a little more expensive.

- As I mentioned above, I don't know how effective it is on 
carpeted floors. On hard floors as you walk around you are 
smashing the salt to a finer and finer degree. It could be that 
this step is necessary. If that is indeed the case, then you can 
make saturated salt water and spray it on the carpeted floor. 
When it dries, it should leave much smaller crystals of salt just 
about everywhere.

- although you'd feel the presence of tiny particles in your bed, 
all you need to do to stop that annoying feeling is to ware 
something very light before going to bed. You won't feel them 
anymore.

- every time you mop the floors or change the bed sheets and 
comforters and cat beds, you need to splash salt on those 
surfaces again.

- I have no idea what the long term effect of having salt on 
those stuff is. I don't see any decaying in the material. So I 
guess will have to wait a few more months to see if it damaged 
anything.

- when flea season is over you can safely resume a salt-free 
floor until the next flea season begin :)

So here it is, the solution to a very nasty problem for those who 
have pets, especially multiple pets :-)


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