Flea Treatment & Control

Fleas on pets

admin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:41:01 +0000

Fleas on pets are where most of us start. It goes something like this - your pet starts scratching more, and you look out the window and Spring is in the air. And when you check you pet you find a flea - or more to the point, many fleas on your pet.

Fleas in furniture

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:01:54 +0000

Fleas in furniture is a potential problem for the household with a bad flea infestation. We mentioned in the last post in which we described fleas in carpet and fleas in rugs that when your flea infested dog or flea ridden cat lies on a particular favorite couch, that flea eggs will drop off their [...]

Fleas in carpets - fleas in rugs

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:20:00 +0000

If you’ve got a pet with fleas, you’re soon going to discover you’ve got fleas in carpets or fleas in rugs. In fact the bad news is, often, if you’ve got a dog or cat with fleas you’ll have fleas in your house even if you’ve got bare floor boards. How do they get there?

How to kill fleas dead!

admin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:14:53 +0000

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? I’m trying to be a bit provocative - to help you understand when a product you have purchased to kill fleas is working.

Natural flea treatments - are they effective?

admin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:07:41 +0000

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 - [...]

My pet still has fleas - HELP!

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:38:14 +0000

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!

Why bother treating for fleas on your pets?

admin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:47:52 +0000

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.

The dog’s got fleas but the cat hasn’t - why?

admin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:48:35 +0000

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.

Understanding the flea life cycle to help plan control strategies

admin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:01:01 +0000

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.

Why am I seeing little black fleas on my pet?

admin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:01:52 +0000

Little black fleas are the immature stage of the flea.