If you don't want to deal with ingesting raid hang your critter by its hind feet. Then take a washcloth or it's equivalent and squirt a healthy dose of rubbing alcohol on it, now place this rag between the animals hind legs.next get a garbage bag large enough to contain the entire animal and squirt a little inside of it and pull it up over the animal and tie it up tight with a piece of wire or tape. The fumes from the alcohol kill the fleas In about 12 hours. I have used this trick on hundreds of coon coyote and fox. Our coon have real bad fleas here at least the ones we get out of the abandoned farmsteads anyway. I don't like fleas or raid. A guy died in ND about 10 or 15 years ago from a flea bite they blamed it on a bobcat he skinned. The doctor told me ingesting insecticides offer follicular lymphoma an opportunity get started in the human lymph system. Hence my severe disdain for raid as I now have that disease. Have fun skinning, as long as your careful it's very rewarding.
Last edited by 222ND; 12/22/14.
