Fleas Fleas usually gain entry to your home through your pet or visitors' pets. For every flea on your pet, there may be as many as 100 more in the pet's environment. Bathe and comb your pet regularly. Use mild soap, not insecticides. If fleas are found on the comb, dip the comb in a glass of soapy water.
Citrus is a natural flea deterrent.
Pour a cup of boiling water over a sliced lemon. Include the lemon skin, scored to release more citrus oil. Let this mixture soak overnight, and sponge on your pet to kill fleas instantly. Make your own flea collar for your pet by soaking a leather pet collar, or absorbant rope or cloth with velcro attachment in the citrus oil solution described above. Commercial flea collars are saturated with pesticides which threaten the environment and may cause health risks for your pet.