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We managed to live a couple of years with house rabbits without contracting a house fly problem, but after last summer's super-hot heat wave we have never managed to get them all gone.
In my pre-house rabbit life, and even with house rabbits until last summer, finding multiple flies indoors meant they'd found somewhere to lay eggs, and all we had to do was take out all the trash and clean things - sweep and vacuum and mop, clean the counters and surfaces etc.
But since last summer the flies have never left, and they're driving us nuts, and we've done those things THREE times, even though we now have an amount of furniture that makes it very difficult to do it in one day because of the amount of moving things involved. (Normally the cleaning of surfaces gets divided up and spread out over time to avoid being exhausting.)
But that hasn't helped.
According to my understanding, this probably means there's somewhere we've forgotten to include in the cleaning list, but I'm not really sure what it would be. Could they be in the plant pots? Or as one alarming google result suggested, in the drains? (Maybe we should just buy a bunch of drain cleaner again?) Why hasn't someone invented a detector????
Last night I made the mistake of googling house flies + house rabbits ( which led to upsettingly gory places, a new daily bunny-butt inspection regime, and a confusing rabbit hole of other rabbit owners' bizarrely unrelatable complaints about smelliness, which is like... really not an issue at all with our bunnies. )
In my pre-house rabbit life, and even with house rabbits until last summer, finding multiple flies indoors meant they'd found somewhere to lay eggs, and all we had to do was take out all the trash and clean things - sweep and vacuum and mop, clean the counters and surfaces etc.
But since last summer the flies have never left, and they're driving us nuts, and we've done those things THREE times, even though we now have an amount of furniture that makes it very difficult to do it in one day because of the amount of moving things involved. (Normally the cleaning of surfaces gets divided up and spread out over time to avoid being exhausting.)
But that hasn't helped.
According to my understanding, this probably means there's somewhere we've forgotten to include in the cleaning list, but I'm not really sure what it would be. Could they be in the plant pots? Or as one alarming google result suggested, in the drains? (Maybe we should just buy a bunch of drain cleaner again?) Why hasn't someone invented a detector????
Last night I made the mistake of googling house flies + house rabbits ( which led to upsettingly gory places, a new daily bunny-butt inspection regime, and a confusing rabbit hole of other rabbit owners' bizarrely unrelatable complaints about smelliness, which is like... really not an issue at all with our bunnies. )
