I wonder if a carpet steamer would do the trick, if you went slowly enough. 
Carpet is a pain! 

I participated in my first freewrite today - and five minutes went by much faster than I anticipated! 

# 'The best way to predict the future is to create it' - Peter Drucker | Amazing work 🚀

Irish Spring - a bar of this soap kills fleas instantly! Put to the test on a cat who had fleas crawling all over him. 
> Dusted my carpets with silicon or diatomateous earth many times, then vacuumed obsessively. This ruins your vacuum, for any of you who are tempted to try it.
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Funny, we've been advised to sprinkle baking soda on our mattresses and rugs, then vacuum it up - only to read now that this ruins our vacuums. 

How much bad advice do we get in a lifetime?

Poison the pets to kill the fleas - I hear you!!!
Like all these vaccines and anti-bacterial hand soaps. And Lysol.

Lysol kills immune systems. Probably leads to cancer, too.

Oh the bane of fleas!
The price we pay for having furry companions in our homes!

UGH! I have no carpets. No carpets at all. In fact I am anti-carpet. All of my floors are wood and if I could be at all arsed, I'd get them tiled.

One of the few pitfalls of owning a pet! Amstel only was infested with fleas twice but was a magnet for ticks. We had to check him regularly and bathed him with a special herbal shampoo. We have carpet in our new house on the main level and can't wait to have it replaced by hardwood or vinyl. It feels good on the feet but it's gross when we start thinking about all that gets trapped in there. It's good to see you writing again. I missed your voice on Hive!

Good to see you freewriting again! I hope 2025 is good to you, my friend 

Getting rid of fleas is the worst! Ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure...

Oh wow !

I can empathize.  Many years back I had dogs. Sure they got a couple of fleas once in a while, but a good flea bath and spraying the yard with whatever the vet recommended at the time made for a quick end to them..... until.... some folks moved next door to us and had hunting dogs. For whatever reason, they had a hoard of fleas and they seemed to just live with it, so once their yard became infested and they didn't do anything about it, it was impossible to stop them from infesting ours too.  No matter what we used or how many times, it only managed to slow them down on our side for a while and then we were covered again.  No way to win after that.

One other time, some family let us stay at their place at the beach and after we got there, we shortly found that we were getting bit by fleas while inside.  Turns out one of the owners had a dog and had been there a few weeks before. With no one to bite for a few weeks, all the fleas were happy to see us!  We had to go buy spray, just to stay there. I was not happy, even a free stay cannot be appreciated if you become a feast for fleas.

I'm glad you got it somewhat under control. 

I used to put diatomaceous earth on the dogs and Rudy's food, they say it helps keep fleas away. What kind of oil do you put on your dog?

Salt ... salt is what worked for me. Also if your dog can swim or bath in salt water ... that helps too. Just sprinkle salt on your carpet and let it sit there a few days before you vacuum up. It is more difficult with cats because they clean themselves with their tongue ... best to keep them indoors. DE is very hard on pets because they breathe it in. You can also clean with Murphy's Oil Soap because it contains cedar oil.