If I applied it to my home my pets would definitely smell it at least once and inhale it. So how exactly is it pet-safe?
Trying to find the best solution to get rid of some cockroaches I found in my bathroom without endangering my 3 cats.
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Diatomaceous earth wouldn’t work on cockroaches. First, before you just start dumping random poisons in your house with no research or expertise, find the source of whatever the cockroaches are feeding on and eliminate it. It may be hard to find. You might have to pull the fridge and the oven out from the wall and mop up whatever has been collecting back there.
Or, like if you live in a multi-unit apartment, you may never find the source. In that case, you would apply roach bait in places that roaches will feed on it but your cats can’t reach it. And even if your cats do reach it, it doesn’t matter, because the active ingredient in roach bait (fipronil) is the same ingredient in Frontline flea medicine for cats. Except the roach bait is over 100 times less concentrated.
And before you just go squirting roach bait all over your house, at least go read an article at something like do your own pest control .com or one of those about how to do it correctly. Pesticides are perfectly safe when used as directed. But if you don’t know what you are doing, it’s pretty easy to poison a whole ecosystem for miles around you.
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