PETARMOR Home Household Spray for Dogs 24 oz 02843

Effective Products and Good Value — I am reviewing 3 products in combination: PetArmor Home & Carpet Spray, ADAMS Plus Flea & Tick Carpet Powder, and Amazon's Topical Flea Treatment for Cats (if you have a dog, purchase the correct Amazon topical for him/her!). Important Note: Fleas have a persistent life cycle. I believe that a home cannot be free from fleas without taking on a concerted effort to eliminate them by treating your pet(s) and the environment in which they live: First, treat your pet(s). My cat was acting differently, over-grooming, increased vocalization, lethargy, etc.. — all signs that something was wrong. Before applying Amazon's Topical Flea Treatment, I flea-combed her thoroughly and removed nearly 100 fleas. But those were only the fleas that were on the cat. Now, the environment. Wash bedding and related washables, towels, clothes etc., in HOT water. Vacuum EVERYTHING thoroughly, and throw the vacuum bag away (Outside) afterward. I then treated the carpets with ADAMS Flea Powder, working it into the fibers and leaving it overnight before vacuuming it up. Follow the product directions and keep pets away from treated areas until they are safe. Next, I sprayed the furniture, bedding, baseboards, tight spaces and other appropriate areas with PetArmor Home & Carpet Spray. This spray works As an "adulticide", preventing continued reproduction. IMPORTANT: Don't expect the fleas to Die or Disappear immediately. The adult fleas you see on your pet are only one stage of the flea life cycle. Eggs fall off into the environment, clothes, bedding, carpets, furniture, where they develop into larvae and eventually pupae. Those pupae can remain protected until conditions are right for them to emerge as adult fleas. After a short while, you will notice much smaller fleas on your pet. These are the next generation that have been waiting to hatch. This process/cycle takes a few weeks in order for the powder, spray and topical do their job. Remember: you can treat your pet and your home correctly and still see fleas afterward. A newly appearing flea doesn't necessarily mean the treatment failed — it may have already been developing in your home before you ever started treatment. That's why vacuuming, environmental treatment and treating the pet need to be done together and continued for several weeks. You're not simply killing the fleas you see; you're breaking an established life cycle. In my case, I continued combing the cat every day (she loves it), vacuuming every few days. The number of fleas eventually dropped dramatically until I was finding virtually none. Don't judge your treatment by whether you see live fleas after the treatments. Be persistent and give the process time to work. IT can take weeks before being completely Flea-Free!

Excellent product I use it every day on my carpets. Can't say that it works, but maybe it is. I just don't know. I never had fleas, but I just wanted the product just in case you know what I mean.

effective flea spray, pleasant smell. reasonable price

Works well and does not smell to bad but it takes a little while to actually kill the fleas. Started seeing results in a little over two days.

The good news: This stuff really works! For my full story of how I used it, read on. The caveat: You need to be prepared to put the work in. Fleas are resilient, and you can't just apply once and expect that they will disappear. You need to: 1. Bathe your animal if you have one, daily (at least at first) 2. Launder EVERYT HING in your home. 3. Identify where the fleas are coming from, and track their progress over time with candle traps 4. Apply poison liberally 5. REPEAT. Seriously, repeat. This stuff is no joke. The smell that everyone is raving about is to cover up the scent of the poison you're applying. Look up the active ingredients -- they can cause serious health effects, so don't breathe this stuff in. I experienced burning in my lungs the first day I applied it, then learned to cover my mouth with a towel, and vacate the space until it was dry. I may have gone a bit overboard with applying... but I had a Serious Infestation. I have no regrets. How I got rid of fleas: I discovered fleas on my dog on Wednesday night. I immediately gave him a bath and vacuumed everything. This was my first time with fleas, and if it's yours, these should Always be your first two steps. Then, I looked online for reviews, and ended up buying this product, along with the Home Household Spray, and the Carpet Powder from the same company. It said it would take two days to arrive, so in the meantime, I went and bought another product locally for outside. The next morning I vacuumed again, sprayed outside, and laundered every piece of laundry, textile and fabric in my home. A friend told me to put down shallow dishes full of soap water, with candles in the middle, all over the floor. The fleas are attracted to the heat and light, and will drown in the shallow water. She said to put them everywhere, as many empty dishes as I had. This was the KEY to tracking where the fleas were coming from. I put them near areas where my dog spent time, but was surprised to find out that those areas did not have many fleas. Instead, there were more fleas near a utility closet in my kitchen. As I continued to move the dishes closer to that closet (every few hours), I found more and more fleas in that particular area. Eventually, I moved the dishes into the closet, and that's when I found hundreds, if not thousands of fleas. I rent, and the closet was previously infested with rats (I know, I'm disgusted too). A friend who is a Entomologist told me that flea eggs could have gotten in from the rats, then lay dormant for months. Now it was warm out again, and they were hatching. I immediately deep cleaned the closet as thousands of fleas attacked me (pro tip: wear long pants, sleeves, gloves, a hair covering, a face covering, anything to protect yourself), removed the old carpet inside, and vacuumed every crevice. Once I had done that, I sprayed it with the Home and Carpet Spray on every surface (spray underneath, on top, in the corners, etc), then once that dried, I used the Carpet Powder on the floor, so I could see where the fleas were and, the next time I vacuumed, I could see any areas I missed. Now, every morning, I wake up, vacuum my entire apartment, vacuum the closet, and reapply the poison. Then I leave dishes with candles in the closet all day and all night (I use tall church candles that have less of a risk of catching fire to anything, and the closet is empty), to track how many fleas there are. There has been a significant improvement after 3 days. However, I'm going to keep doing this process for at least two weeks. Read up about breaking the life cycle of fleas -- they can come back if you let down your guard. I will be ready.