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Sometimes just using a topical flea treatment like Frontline or Advantage on your pet is not enough if you live in an area where there is a serious flea infestation. I found this out the hard way last summer. Hot, humid weather really brings out the fleas. Not to mention a neighbor of mine who lets his cats loaded with fleas roam the neighborhood.

You have to attack the problem three ways: outdoor environment, indoor environment and the pet itself, yet do it safely.

Zodiac FleaTrol is the indoor solution to my flea problem. Last year was the first time I've had to "fog" since 1993 (before Program and the various topical flea treatments were available for pets).

I always buy the 3 pack of X-O-Trol. This seems to be the right amount for a 1000 square foot condo with vaulted ceilings. Just don't OVERKILL on the number of foggers you place it can be deadly! I remember a news story from a couple years ago where a woman placed double the amount of cans of fogger in her house and the pilot light from her water heater ignited the vapors and blew the house up.

It's obvious some preparations need to be made before using the fogger. The "most" important and I hope it's obvious -REMOVE ALL YOUR PETS! You and your pets need to be outside for several hours. I crate the cats and let my dog run in the backyard, while I take it easy on the deck on a nice day.

Turn off the thermostat, unplug the refrigerator and put out any pilot lights if you have gas. Put away all food, pet food, water bowls, etc. so the insecticide can't contaminate anything. Make sure all the windows and doors are closed tight or the fogger will be wasted. Upon re-entry, wash off all countertops and any place your cats would lay (window sills).

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I used this product about 2 weeks ago in my small house, one in every room but the kitchen, and I have to say I am impressed. Our flea problem wasn't terrible, but I had bites on me feet everyday from them. There was no smell, and surprisingly no residue either like I had been hearing from others. I have not seen a single flea since. HOWEVER, we did this along with treating our 2 cats with Revolution (from the vet) the night before, and we sprayed our yard at the same time. Since then, we have been flea free!

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I don't usually write reviews, but I think everyone should read mine if you have fleas. I spotted fleas on my cats about 3 weeks ago. A trip to the Vet confirmed it. The Vet gave the pets Capstar pills to kill the ADULT fleas (it will not kill anything else). The fleas dropped off. I bathed them using Dawn dishwashing liquid. That cleaned them up. I kept them in the garage and kept giving the Capstar pills, for a couple of days while I approached the fleas in the house. I had a moderate infestation, but with a 14 room, 7,000 sq. ft. house, I wasn't taking chances. I got a hold of Zodiac Flea Foggers. First of all, if you think 1 fogging is going to kill these buggers, forget it. I recommend having a conversation with the VERY HELPFUL staff at the company that makes the Zodiac Foggers. I learned that vacuuming everyday is THE best thing to do, in addition to the foggers. WHY? Because this is the only way you will remove the pupae stage of the flea from the carpets, etc. which is impossible to kill. And this is what hatches the fleas. So, vacuum, vacuum, every single day. Don't skip it or you are back to square one. If your pet has been in any spot in your house you must treat it! If the pet never goes in a room of the house, chances are you won't get fleas there. Wear white sox while vacuuming to determine the amount of your infestation. You will see them on the sox. Tiny ones just haven't bitten anything yet. But they will! So, I set off a fogger in every room of my house. About 8 days later I still had fleas, but not as much. Meanwhile I used flea spray under all chairs, couches, etc. Think of a fogger as a fine mist rain it will only treat where the fine mist falls down onto. After finding the fleas again 8 days later, I fogged the whole house again. Meanwhile, and this is important....I had the pets run around the house to "collect" the fleas onto their bodies. More Capstar pills and the adults fell off. I vacuumed the cats with the hose attachment (they didn't like it at first, but then got used to it)and this "excited" the fleas to hatch out. Next day, another Capstar pill and more adult fleas off the cats. Then, follow up with another bathing.

So, I'm three weeks into the flea infestation; the cats show some "flea dirt" on them, so I am still vacuuming, fogging and spraying. The infestation is wayyyy down, but I am going to continue vacuuming, fogging, spraying, bathing the cats and giving them Capstar. I did a Zodiac Spot on thing on the larger cat, but it showed no marked improvement in killing fleas on him. It just made his eyes water a greenish puss type substance. He is OK now. After that, I didn't treat our little cat.

So, I do recommend Zodiac fogger, just don't be a fool and think that one time will magically kill the fleas. Fleas, I have found out are very, very resilient. You must keep vacuuming everyday, fogger every 8-10 days, once fleas have hatched (if you fog when the fleas are in the pupae stage, it's going to do nothing), keep an eye on the cats for infestations and treat them. I do recommend that you think up all your questions and call Zodiac. It was really very helpful and I think I'm gonna beat this flea thing. I have spent about $900 so far between Vets and foggers, spray, etc. It would be less for a smaller home. Professional companies wanted $1800 A TIME to do my house and they said it would probably take 2 times to kill the fleas. Timing is everything in flea control.

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I have used this product every summer for 6 years. It kills EVERYTHING! I don't even see as much as a spider in my home for the entire season. I use 1 at the end of the hallway, 1 between my kitchen and living room, and I at the bottom of the basement stairs. It leaves absolutley no odor, or residue. I do remove evrything from my counters, but I do not open my cabinets as the label suggests and it still works fine. A deep clean after fogging and I am pest free for the summer!!

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As I write this my roommate and I are fighting a serious flea infestation. Despite the fact the dog isn't allowed in my bedroom, my room is ground zero for the infestation. We've managed to beat back the flea problem in every room except mine. This product was probably the best one we've used (including calling an exterminator)

This fogger is particularly good because it has both a flusher and a insect growth regulator (IGR). The flusher is a type of pyrethrin which quickly kills adults and flushes them out of cracks and crevices so they can be exposed to the IFR. The IGR in this product (methoprene) prevents flea larva from maturing into adults which bite and lay eggs. Professional exterminators often refer to methoprene as Precor. There are other IGRs also Nylar (ethoxyl pyridine), Gentrol (hydroprene). It helps to know the chemicals and commercial names of all these products when you are shopping around.

We've tried just about every spray and fogger you can buy in stores. Most foggers you find in hardware stores (even the ones for fleas) only contain a flusher. This will kill the adults but leave maturing larva and eggs behind and inevitably you will be reinfested. We made this mistake with the first foggers we bought. The second set of foggers we bought contained Nylar (ethoxyl pyridine). They really seemed to work 4-5 days later we started finding fleas again.

So finally after reading reviews and really understanding the chemicals that professionals use, I picked out these foggers. We used probably twice as much fogger as we needed. I think one box is good for over 2000sq ft, and our house is only about 1000 sq ft. They worked much better than anything else. I also picked up the handheld fogger/sprayer that Zodiac sells and used that inside furniture, box-springs, etc. I removed all vent covers and opened all the closets and sprayed inside them. They say that you only need to worry about pet bedding and things within a foot of the floor, but to be careful I've removed all cloths, bedsheets, etc. from my room, bagged them up, and washed most of them (the rest are still in bags). I actually broke my washing machine in the process of doing all the laundry. We have no carpet in our house (all hardwood or vinyl) so there is really nowhere for fleas to hide. We've vacuumed every day or two since fogging. And we seemed to be flea free for over a week. I thought we had the problem licked.

During all this I built a flea trap similar to one sold by Westham Innovations. Fleas are attracted to pulsing green light (there are academic papers to back this up), and I happened to have some pulsing green LEDs lying around. Other forms of light will work too, but not nearly as well. Take some of these LEDs and a bowl of soapy water, and you've got a flea trap. It won't get rid of the fleas but it's sort of the "canary in coal mine" for flea infestations.

So over a week after using the Zodiac foggers I saw a flea in the flea trap. And the next day I saw 3. And the next day you couldn't even walk across the room to check the trap without having 5 fleas jump on you. It was about a flea per second. And they were biting.

So after spending $100+ on foggers, area sprays, powders (chemical and natural/green), flea drops, flea collars, flea bathes it seems like we have got rid of fleas on the dog and throughout most of the house. But my room is still completely infested. So we finally caved and called an exterminator. $125 for the first treatment and $65 for the second. I wasn't around when he sprayed, but he left a sheet listing the chemicals he sprayed (Precor and a Flusher/Pyrethrin) and they were identical to what is in the Zodiac foggers. The concentrations were slightly higher, but very similar.

When I came back the next day my room was still infested with fleas. I called the exterminator on Saturday and finally heard back from their office on Monday. I tried to explain that the Zodiac foggers I bought were about 10% of the cost and worked significantly better than whatever they did. They've assured me that it's normal and will take at least two visits to get rid of the fleas and considering that fleas take at least 10 days to mature I think this is believable. However, considering the effectiveness of the Zodiac foggers vs their treatment (using supposedly identical chemicals), I'm doubtful. But they have given a guarantee, so I'd rather let them try and fail and get my money back (or let them keep trying)

So I'm left in the position of either spending more money on the Zodiac foggers in addition to the exterminator, or letting the exterminator on his own try until he gets rid of them (or gives me back my money). In the mean time I can't even go in my room, I spend nights crashing at friends' houses, and all my clothes are in trash bags in the back of my car (which I pre-emptively sprayed).

I am giving the exterminator another chance to either eradicate the fleas or give me back my money. After that I am debating calling another exterminator or just buying a case of these Zodiac foggers and using them once a week for the next month. Honestly, you can easily buy all the chemicals that exterminators use and judging by our success you can do just as good a job. That being said these are somewhat toxic chemicals (but not carcinogens or too hazardous), so if you are applying any aerosols directly you probably want a respirator of some sort. The concentrations in the handheld fogger are probably safe, but this floor fogger has higher concentrations and you definitely want you and your pets to be as far away as possible when you set them off. As with many aerosols, the gas is somewhat flammable if exposed to a flame. I wouldn't set these off near (