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Pet Information Blog - Flea's

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Its time to make sure your pets are up to date with their Flea Treatment!!

Posted on October 01, 2014

With the weather starting to get warmer it is time to make sure your furry family members are up to date with their flea treatment!!

Understanding the life cycle of the flea

Eggs are laid in your pet’s coat and fall into their environment.
Larvae, which feed of ‘flea dirt’ from adult flea faecal material, develop and spin cocoons.
Pupae develop. They can lay dormant for many months until they emerge as adult fleas.
Adult fleas are free to infect their host. Once they have a blood meal they will only last a limited time. However, during that short period they produce many more eggs to start the infectious process again.

The Effects Fleas can have on your pets

Flea allergy dermatitis (FAD)
Discomfort & restlessness
Obsessive cleaning which can become a behavioral problem
Tapeworms
Anemia in debilitated and young pets
Death in severe cases

Fleas are a nuisance, causing skin itching and irritation leading to scratching and biting of your pet to try to resolve the itch, however some pets are allergic to flea saliva which results in severe skin irritation and rashes on your pet.

Dogs and cats can also get tapeworms by swallowing a flea infected with a tapeworm larvae. A dog or cat may swallow a flea while self-grooming.

Once the flea is digested inside the dog or cat, the larval tapeworm is free to develop into an adult tapeworm. By controlling the flea population you can help prevent your pet from getting tapeworm.

Did you know?

The most common way pets catch fleas is from the environment. Fleas rarely jump from pet to pet.
Fleas consume 15 times their body weight in blood daily.
95% of fleas are in the environment
Some fleas can jump more than 150 times their own body
length – a distance of about 33cm – the same as you jumping
over a sky-scraper
The female flea can lay 2000 eggs in her lifetime – that’s about
30-40 eggs every day
Adult fleas can bite your pet up to 400 times a day.
A flea can hatch from its cocoon, jump onto your passing pet (or you) and start feeding in
as little as 7 seconds

Here at Pets Wonderland we sell a range of different Flea Treatment products such as Topical/Tablet Treatments, Shampoo's/Soaps, Flea bombs for your house and Flea Combs.

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