Flea Treatment & Control

It seems pretty obvious, you want to know how to kill fleas. But do you? Is that enough? Will you be satisfied if you kill fleas? Will you know that you are killing fleas?

I’m trying to be a bit provocative - to help you understand when a product you have purchased to kill fleas is working.
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Today I thought I’d write about natural flea treatments.

Before doing so, I’d like to pose some food for thought:

• What is ‘natural’ and what makes a chemical natural?
• Is a natural flea treatment as effective as a ‘chemical’ treatment?
• Is a natural flea treatment less toxic than a chemical treatment?
• What is the aim of natural flea treatment - to kill fleas or to keep them off our pets?

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OK, slow down a second - your pet has fleas. So does 90% of dogs and cats in the US.

But I’m using an expensive flea treatment product!
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Why is flea treatment of pet dogs and cats important?

Fleas are important for caring pet owners because they are the most common skin parasitic infection of dogs and cat and therefore fleas cause more skin disease than any other parasite.

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In a sense you’re lucky, if one of your pets is reasonably resistant to fleas, but I’d like to answer the question by framing it in a completely different way.
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A basic understanding of the flea life cycle is really useful in planning a flea control strategy – and to assess when things are “on track” or when additional control measures may be required.

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Little black fleas are the immature stage of the flea.

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