tl;dr - I found a single flea on my cat during bathtime, but not another one while furminating her. I bathed her again, this time with flea shampoo & vacuumed the door she sits near. Do I need to do anything next, or should I just flea bathe her again in 2 weeks, then wait & see?
Long version:
I usually give my cat a bath once a month with regular shampoo after trimming her claws, brushing her teeth, and furminating her (because she sheds a lot), but sometime around October of last year I kinda just stopped. I clip her nails alone more often, but but I've only bathed her like, twice since then iirc.
Anyway, the previous person who lived in this house (my girlfriend's sister) had a small dog that went outside often and apparently got a lot of fleas. She didn't really treat the dog "correctly" and just kinda ignored it/put it off.
Eventually (thankfully) she gave the dog away to a new owner. After she left, there were still fleas in her room (they bit me, that's how I found out).
We flea bombed the house twice, and her room (where the dog stayed in his kennel) a third time. This was before I moved in, as I wanted to ensure this problem was quashed before I moved in.
We walked around the room, no fleas jumped up, so we vacuumed the floor and dumped the vacuum immediately.
Fast forward to yesterday, and after clipping, toothbrushing, furminating, and bathing my cat and drying her off (towel + hair dryer), I find a dead flea near her groin area. I bathed her again with Seargeant's gold shampoo, and dried her off again. She has used this shampoo before when she got fleas from another cat a long time ago, had no reactoin.
I didn't see any fleas some off with the furminator beforehand, or when I was rinsing off any of the shampoo.I didn't see a bunch of fleas wash off of her.I vacuumed under the sliding glass door where she likes to sit the most, which leads to the back yard where we suspect the fleas live (because they got on that dog over a year ago).
Is there anything else I need to do? I've been reading, and from what I can gather, pills can only kill the live fleas, and not the eggs. I plan to run the robot vacuum throughout the house tomorrow. I'm wondering if I should spray some Vet's best by that sliding glass door, or in any other places she frequents (such as my room). Could it really have just been one flea that came through that glass sliding door? Do I need to buy some pills or a behind-the-neck treatment, or can I just give her another bath in 2 weeks, then another? I vaguely remember that working back in the day.
Bombing the house was already an endeavor, so I'd like to avoid that if possible, and avoid letting it get that bad in the first place. But I'm also working on a budget here (thanks Greg Abbott), so I'd like to know what I need, what I might need, and what I don't need.
EDIT: I didn't really see her scratch much at all leading up to this, either. Thanks for any and all suggestions.
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