hello my name is Paul Bates I'm one of the directors of a company called clinical environmental services limited we're a pest control company today we're going to try and help you with some of your pest problems around the house few pests cause as much distress in a household as fleas not only will they affect the adults they'll affect the children and then of course the cats and the dogs will be scratching away they'll be skin irritations that can lead to other distress as well and certainly with cats and other animals a really bad flea infestation will cause it to stop eating and will then cause other lead on to other things which need expensive vet treatments with fleas one of the best methods for control nowadays there's something called frontline and similar products that are available from supermarkets that you put a little drop of on the back of the cat or the dog's neck where it can't lick it off that gets into the bloodstream and that will get rid of the flea infestation very quickly it needs to be reapplied every six months or so however if the fleas have been picked up by your animals and there may be Fox fleas or other fleas from your garden Hedgehog fleas each flea feeds on its own host animal although it will cause distress to others which is why the cat flea will cause distress to humans when it bites us but it can't live and breed it must have its host animal around such as the cat in that case then the need of insecticides is needed you can buy tins of aerosol insecticide from supermarkets garden centers in cases of a bad infestation you will need the use of professional pest control companies such as clean kill to take care of the problem general hygiene such as hoove ring around the edges of cities where the cats and dogs are sitting will help start to remove the eggs and the larvae that may be there and again it comes down to general hygiene which is the case with so many pest control operations general cleanliness make sure that all of these areas are taken a good care of when you're hoovering underneath cities down the cracks and crevices that will all help to get control of a flea infestation