i hadnt thought about catching them and showing them to an exterminator. good idea. i'll do that, as they seem to prefer me over my husband.

we bought this house brand new....so i dont think they are from a previous owner.....and my cats are flea free....i havent done any researchon these critters but perhaps there is a variety that lives in grass and we have tracked them in the house after playing outdoors? i am going to have to go look this up.

as for jon donne, only he could romanticize the flea in such a manner! :-P iwould not have fared well in an age of fleas, rats, slop buckets and lack of any sort of hygiene.....

... then you won't need to postulate a "special kind that lives in grass". Just your standard cat flea (I read that that's the usual kind that hits dogs these days - an expert will know better) that's being shed onto everything and anything and is being tracked into the house.

And where was the carpet stored before it was laid down in your new house ... ? (I'm just full of things to make you paranoid today, eh?)

Happy ... oops, I was going to abbreviate Mother's Day with MD. That wouldn't work for you, would it? :p

oh i am sure the MD had a very happy MD throwing back some daiquiries and ignoring her beeper. bah!

i really dont know where the carpet was stored before....but we've been in this house for over a year and last spring & summer were fine save for a few ants. actaully the ants were a nuisance, we had a lot of hills in the yard....we had orkin come out after trying several "natural" methods and now they are gone...onlu to be replaced by the fleas. my husband thinks that the orkin guy planted flea eggs on his last visit since our one year contract for the ants expired and that way they could keep our business. i thought he was joking, but maybe not.......

... that, in the bug world, it's best not to attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by persistence. And fleas can be damned persistent.

Speaking of bugs, I wonder if that pest control agent does bobs. I suggest an aggressive, round-the-clock regimen of Care Bears cartoons and Barney videos.

I trust you are refering to the "bob(s)" of the suddenly and mysteriously MIA Anominus_Bob? I understand that he lived in the desert area of Cali...people go missing all the time out there in the big old inhospitable desert...
MOO-HA-HA-HAAaaaaa

Evil_Bob

... but you'll do just fine. You are so special. Isn't that right, Big Bird ...?

perhaps i am more evil than thee?

Perhaps you and I should list our personal Evilish Best List Of Accomplishments and compare EVIL Deeds Done? I am always up for a good challenge...dimes to dollars and a pound of rancid flesh I have you retching your Mother's Day Dinner up before I even loosen the top button of my shirt collar.; And we don't even want to talk about the dreams you would be having about Ol' Bob...I mean about Me, The Evil One! And It's MOO-Ha-Ha-Haaaaaaaa

...Sweet Lucifer, If you're going to go around sounding EVIL at least do it right...Really, Jeeze Almighty

Evil_Bob