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I purchased these two cans because my 5 year old house-cat decided to be a butt face one day and jump through a screen window into the backyard at a house I'm renting. It so turns out that after I chased her back inside, she brought "hoppers" along with her ("hoppers" is the war code name my son and I came up with for fleas). Of course their presence was not immediately known until about two months after the incident occurred, which was just enough time for them to multiply to the extent that my cat started to act crazier than usual. Then they found us.
I first tried the home remedy of placing a shallow dish filled with water and Dawn dish detergent by a light source, and yes, it did work to an extent. I was killing at least 50-75 hoppers a night, but knew immediately that it wasn't going to completely rid the house of the infestation when one morning I saw my cat laying on a pair of my son's black sweatpants and those pants were virtually covered with tiny, white specks. Being the idiot I am, I was like, "What is this? Does she have dandruff or something?" So I Google'd flea eggs, and voila...HOPPER SPAWN. That's when the war was officially declared by the Congress of one.
I ordered these two cans of Raid, but thanks to the failure of logistics (here's looking at you UPS), the Prime package was delayed an extra day and I was forced to walk my happy butt down to the store and purchase two cans of inferior HotShot product (no Raid at the store). When I came back home, my cat went into the bathroom for at least four to five hours as I vacuumed everything I could possibly think to vacuum; cracks, crevices, radiators, electrical outlets...even the inside of my computer tower. While that was being done, all of our clothes went into the washer and drier, and then directly into 30 gallon trash bags. Then I sprayed with the HotShot, waited for the carpet and hard floors to dry, then I vacuumed again. Then my cat got a bath with Dawn dish soap, and although it killed off quite a few that had been on her, she wasn't fully rid of them yet.
The next day, the Raid arrived. There was a notable cessation of hopper activity after the first treatment, so I felt like I had won a battle, but the war was far from over. My cat was still a walking factory. Again she went into the bathroom. I vacuumed, and then sprayed everything (including the outside of the plastic bags where our clothes were) with Raid. And since it has a residual effect, no further vacuuming has been done. Most hopper activity has stopped, with the exception of one or two that no longer can jump because of the Raid, but we stopped being bitten.
As I write this, the war is still not over. I am having Frontline delivered soon, and a 3/4 gallon of TalStar with a 1 gallon sprayer. Within the next week, every bug, seen and unseen are about to feel the wrath of a nuke. They are going to die. All of them.
Should you get this? Yes, but don't expect it to be a cure all. It is for knocking them down. They only thing that is going to rid you of your pest problem is the will to seek-and-destroy (here's looking at you Metallica), consistency, and the ever important follow up treatments. This is just a tool, so use it as such.
December 2017 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase